Posted on 11/05/2009 2:38:26 AM PST by Story Balloon
Alan Grayson decided it was time grandstand again on House floor. This time he used his magic math to read the number of people who are dead in Republican districts due to no health care.
Grayson: Mr. Speaker, during the civil war Abraham Lincoln our President often pardoned people who have been convicted of treason. You may wonder why he did that. The answer is because he saw death all around him in the civil war and he wanted to make sure he did nothing to add to it. So he pardoned people who have been found guilty of the most grievous crime one can commit in this country. Simply because he loved life. In the same way I’d like to think whether I leave here after 2 years or 20 years that there will be no blood on my hands. That’s why I am against the war in Iraq. That’s why I’m against the war in in Afghanistan. And that’s why I’m so much in favor of health care reform that saves lives in America. We had a different kind of President for 8 years recently. And we had a different kind of administration. An administration that was willing to bear any degree of suffering and pain as long as it was somebody else. If you were homeless it was your fault, if you jobless it was your fault. And if you died because you had no health insurance. That was your fault. Now that administration is out of power. We the American people have removed them because they abused it. But they have left behind in the House and Senate people that feel much the way they do. Recently a Harvard study published in a peer-reviewed journal, the American Journal of Public Health, announced that 44,789 American die every single year because they have no health insruanc.e In American today if you find two people who are physically identical. Same race, same age, same gender, same smoking habits, same weight. If you find two people who are physically identical and one of them has insurance and the other one does not. Then the one without insurance, that American that has the misfortune simply not to have health coverage. That American is 40% more likely to die. This bill that we are considering now to reform health care in America would end that. It covers 96% of all Americans. It ends this grievous national tragedy where day after day, week after week, month after month, 122 of us die every single day because they have no health insurance. Now I’m sure that if we learned that al quida was going to launch an attack on the United States and kill 44,789 Americans at any time next year. I’m sure that we would do anything in our power to prevent that. I submit to you that we should do the same about this. We should do exactly the same here because we face the same threat. It’s a less visible threat. It’s gone on for generations. But it’s a threat nevertheless. If you don’t let people see the doctor then a certain number of them are going to do. And to bring to this point home in face of united opposition by that side of the aisle, what we have done is something very simple. The Urban Institute has published the number of uninsured people in each congressional district in this country. The American Journal of Public Health have told us what percentageof those uninsured people will die next year simply people they don’t have health insurance. So what we’ve don’t is very simple. We’ve taken one number and the other number and through the magic of multiplication we know how many of those people will die. And I think it’s time we called attention to that. So what we’ve done for each with Republican member since they are united in opposition to this bill and apparently proud of it. For each Republican member we have identified in each district the number of dead. They are as follows.
The sheeple that fall for his lies are pitiful at best and criminal at worst. What a crock!
Apparently people in Europe live forever...
I guess those dead people is an easy list to find, as they are all still voting Democrat.
He is the perfect poster boy for health care reform (those that have insurance and don’t use it).
This bubble brain apparently doesn't know how many terms one person can serve as president.
Maybe republicans should read the number of dead or unemployed in democrat districts due to democrat bills.
Grayson needs some Fleet to clean out his brain.
He has less than a year left in Congress.He is not in a Liberal district.
There is no enough time left to any of us to read the names of those killed by governments the world over.
Mr. Grayson, I am so mad I could scream!
You say “ In the same way I’d like to think whether I leave here after 2 years or 20 years that there will be no blood on my hands.”
This from a man who said, “Republicans often love it when people suffer long, slow inexorable deaths, particularly if it serves our political purposes. Remember Terry Schiavo? Hell, we would’ve been happy to drag her tragically comatose body around for a good two or three more years IF SHE HADN’T BEEN ALLOWED TO PASS QUIETLY and destroy our big media charade of fake indignation,”
You voted yea on H. Res. 505 condemning the murder of George Tiller that stated “Whereas violence is deplorable, and never an acceptable avenue for expressing opposing viewpoints”.
Is not murder (abortion) a violent act??
And in the same resolution “ and that violence is never an appropriate response to a difference in beliefs.”
I firmly believe abortion is wrong and that abortion is an inappropriate response to our difference in beliefs!
You would allow an innocent NOT COMATOSE human being to be starved and dehydrated unmercifully to death.
Over 3,700 abortions are performed daily in the US and you would vote for a Health Care Bill that will force us to pay for murdering children?
When are these babies names going to be read in Congress?? The Lord knows who each one is. Mr. Grayson,you have a lot of blood on your hands!!!
I am patiently waiting for a Republican to come to the floor and answer you.
Can’t someone file a lawsuit against this boob? Tie him answering ethics and court charges? Who needs a reason? They did it to Beautiful Sarah. :)
GOEBBELS LIVES!! Grayson is a CERTIFIABLE ANTI-CHRISTIAN CRAZY HATER.
Of the number of insured people what percentage die? Some people are also saved since some people die due only to medical mistakes.
You want a list of the dead? How about the abortions done in this country every day thanks to the spinelessness of the Democratic Party? I’m betting more innocents have been snuffed out because of abortion than ever die because somebody didn’t get free healthcare paid for by Uncle Sugar.
And even that list is nothing compared to the list of Babies aborted. Of course "that" list has few names on it because those Mothers could not be bothered to name the fetus they were just going to flush down the drain.
I wish harm on few in this world But Grayson is fast climbing my list.
If he were to suddenly meet an untimely end I would pretend concern while smiling knowingly...
I don't need Alan Grayson for this because I already know the number. It's ZERO.
That’s the gut response of many, I’m sure. It is worth suffering this irritating buffoon.. Does he really think he is doing his cause any good? (The cause is either socialized medicine or himself, it doesn’t matter).
100% Every individual ever born will at some point have three words written about them:”And he/she died.”
Alan Grayson, in my opinion, is pure unaldultrated evil. The fools that elected him can be proud.
In my opinion, Alan Grayson and Ted Kennedy are two people who deserve to burn in hell for all eternity. Kennedy is there now and one day Grayson will be there.
So if we get government run healthcare we will all live forever right? I mean no one with health insurance ever dies right?
“If you find two people who are physically identical and one of them has insurance and the other one does not. Then the one without insurance, that American that has the misfortune simply not to have health coverage. That American is 40% more likely to die”
Likely because the one who doesn’t have health insurance is also more likely to be irresponsible in other areas of their life as well.
Someone needs to counter with the number of dead with health care which will far excede his number without!
Let us read a list of the people not employed by the bankster bailout and porkulous.
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