Angry Americans disrupt town-hall healthcare talks [No! Nothing! None! It's got to stop now....]

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Angry Americans disrupt town-hall healthcare talks Fri Aug 7, 2009 5:58pm EDT

By Matthew Bigg and Nick Carey

BOILING SPRINGS, S.C./OCONTO FALLS, Wisc. (Reuters) - At scattered events across the United States, protesters are confronting members of Congress whose summer "town hall" meetings aim to get a sense of how Americans feel about overhauling healthcare.

Boiling Springs in South Carolina -- population 4,500 -- was true to its name on Thursday, giving U.S. Representative Bob Inglis a taste of rising anger among conservative voters toward President Barack Obama's reform plan.

"There is no way, shape or form we need to have a national healthcare system. No! Nothing! None! It's got to stop now," said one man who addressed the audience of 300 people to sustained applause.

The plans seek to provide coverage to nearly 46 million uninsured Americans and bring down healthcare costs.

Conservatives say they will lead to a nationalized healthcare system where government, rather than doctors, will make medical decisions. They say the plans will end up costing them more and boost the federal deficit.

With lawmakers gone from Washington for a month and much of the plans still to be drafted, the rancorous battle has spread to usually staid, relaxed town hall meetings.

A chorus of people in the audience heckled, shouted down and interrupted Inglis, a Republican, even as he tried to explain why he opposed the plans put forward by Obama, a Democrat who became president six months ago.

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more of those fringe groups who are well dressed.......

[Izzy Dunne]

How many were carrying swastikas?

[Bean Counter]

[La Lydia]

Well dressed, but deaf. Inglis said he was opposed to it.

[cripplecreek]

Ooh I’ll get by with a little help from my fringe.

[Dr. Sivana]

Is it possible that this truly awful program was introduced so that a later scaled down version will be accepted by people satisfied hat they avoided the big one?

I just don’t see any Congressman who wants to be re-elected (except in districts that already are majority government health care) supporting this. IN the case of Obama himself, I now believe that he either wants to do as much as he can, as fast as he can, or that he can monkey with the mechanics of the 2012 election enough to ensure victory.

[Need4Truth]

A few people waved pink slips to suggest he should lose his job

cool idea.

[stylecouncilor]

LOL!

[dancusa]

Wait until 10 PM tonight. All the sitreps will come in about tonight’s Potemkin Village town meetings.

[musicman]

....more of those fringe groups who are well dressed....... "

[1000 silverlings]

lol

[1000 silverlings]

lol, lol

[cranked]

Surprising that it takes a foreign news media outlet to see what is happening for exactly what it is: ANGRY AMERICANS. The vast, vast majority of the US news media should be utterly ashamed. Better yet, since they are engaging in nothing but yellow jorunalism, they should be boycotted, bankrupted, and then summarily burnt to the ground.

[right way right]

"A chorus of people in the audience heckled, shouted down and interrupted Inglis, a Republican, even as he tried to explain why he opposed the plans put forward by Obama, a Democrat who became president six months ago."

They are reporting like they just found out about this Obama guy and he is a Democrat and the President.

It makes the writer sound like an idiot.

[screaminsunshine]

At this point I would not classify the majority af media as American.

[taxtruth]

Yep,Johnston and Murphy shoes and silk suits.The mob is to well dressed “OR” has the federal government awoken a sleeping giant that they don’t know how to deal with?

[LibLieSlayer]

What would you do... if hussein quit lying to you? Would you stand up and keel over dead? How will you feel... when they turn out the lights? Will Amerika turn all red?

LLS

[Irisshlass]

I think everyone should dress up as muslims...let the middle east see the union thugs beat up them. *grin*

[taxtruth]

That’s real good.LOL and still LOL!

[50cal Smokepole]

Around a thousand miles northwest of Boiling Springs -- in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin -- the mood was different. Vic Bast, 86, a World War Two fighter pilot and retired school principal, attended a meeting with Democratic Congressman Steve Kagen.

Kagen got a couple harsh welcomes elsewhere in 'his district'. He's nice and safe up there in libtard land, but he got his empty head handed to him in Green Bay and Appleton. (Kagen is the moron who claimed (a lie) to mix it up with Karl Rove in a WH men's room.)