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Sarah Palin: Statement on the Current Health Care Debate
facebook ^ | Aug. 7, 2009 | Sarah Palin

Posted on 08/07/2009 1:45:04 PM PDT by Al B.

As more Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re saying not just no, but hell no!

The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion.

Rep. Michele Bachmann highlighted the Orwellian thinking of the president’s health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the White House chief of staff, in a floor speech to the House of Representatives. I commend her for being a voice for the most precious members of our society, our children and our seniors.

We must step up and engage in this most crucial debate. Nationalizing our health care system is a point of no return for government interference in the lives of its citizens. If we go down this path, there will be no turning back. Ronald Reagan once wrote, “Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.” Let’s stop and think and make our voices heard before it’s too late.

- Sarah Palin


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: bachmann; bhohealthcare; deathpanel; dnc; euthanasia; healthcare; hillarycare; obamacare; palin; romneycare; sarahpalin; socializedmedicine; sowell
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To: Sarah Barracuda
>You can’t even give her credit for writing a well-written statement

You're right. I was mean.
I'm sorry. Five paragraphs--
that's three hundred words,

that's eighteen hundred
characters. Like fifteen tweets.
That's a lot of work!

101 posted on 08/07/2009 2:43:21 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: r9etb

Sarah is just fine with Fred Malek and Thomas Sowell, both having praised and commended the lady, yet she does not meet r9etb’s standards. Please tell us all why we should dismiss Malek & Sowell and support your (idiotic) remarks?


102 posted on 08/07/2009 2:43:51 PM PDT by jla
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To: theFIRMbss

Don’t you have some teen idols to worship, child?


103 posted on 08/07/2009 2:43:57 PM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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To: Al B.

The Lord bless and keep you, Sarah Palin.


104 posted on 08/07/2009 2:44:46 PM PDT by Terabitten (Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

It was just a friendly teasing! :-)


105 posted on 08/07/2009 2:44:50 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: BornToBeAmerican
“Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.” Let’s stop and think and make our voices heard before it’s too late.

- Sarah Palin


Sarah Palin quoting Ronald Reagan - perfect! Go get 'em Sarah.
106 posted on 08/07/2009 2:44:54 PM PDT by khnyny ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: SolidWood

So he/she is a liberal. Good to know. No wonder he/she supports ObamaCare, otherwise why would she be upset with what Sarah wrote. It’s PERFECT. I don’t get what the problem is, she is against it, aren’t we all against it here, or do some of the people who post here actually want this crap to pass


107 posted on 08/07/2009 2:45:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Al B.
Hurray! I was hoping she'd come out swinging at this critical juncture and she hasn't let me down. She's never let me down. What a great lady.

-ccm

108 posted on 08/07/2009 2:45:38 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

And that was two decades ago.

- JP


109 posted on 08/07/2009 2:45:42 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("Government cannot make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - Sarah Heath Palin)
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To: 3niner

I don’t follow unless you are talking about health care remaining in the free market.


110 posted on 08/07/2009 2:46:32 PM PDT by listenhillary (90% of our problems could be resolved with a government 10% of the size it is now.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Because Romney is in FAVOR of government run health care. Just look at his Romney care in Masschussetts!

NO surprise the Romney-RINO-democrap bots fall over their little feet to defend Obama care.


111 posted on 08/07/2009 2:46:40 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: Al B.

“....Obama’s “death panel”

My jaw dropped when I read this. She is laying down the gauntlet but good.”

Yes and that’s why they attack her daily without a thread of evidence.

RULE 12: (Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)


112 posted on 08/07/2009 2:47:04 PM PDT by RoadTest (For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Isaiah 55:8)
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To: theFIRMbss
That's a lot of work!

You mean like getting your information from Wonkette, pop princess?

113 posted on 08/07/2009 2:47:36 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: theFIRMbss

Didn’t you PM me a week ago telling me how you were not against Sarah Palin. So what the hell is this crap about. Do you want this deathcare to pass. You voted for Obama didn’t you?


114 posted on 08/07/2009 2:48:34 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Josh Painter

Exactly! Actually the first decent thing she has written in years is her latest piece for Wall Street Journal... I still don’t trust her words, however.


115 posted on 08/07/2009 2:49:00 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Like so many of the FR 1998ers ...

Not this one. Sarah is the real deal.

116 posted on 08/07/2009 2:49:05 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: newfreep

I thought you were ~LOL~


117 posted on 08/07/2009 2:49:19 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Al B.

“....Obama’s “death panel”

My jaw dropped when I read this. She is laying down the gauntlet but good.”

Yes and that’s why they attack her daily without a thread of evidence.

RULE 12: (Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)


118 posted on 08/07/2009 2:49:38 PM PDT by RoadTest (For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Isaiah 55:8)
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To: theFIRMbss

It’s clear your screen name theFIRMbss has one too many s’s at the end.

Palin once again shows the guts that have been sorely missing from our politicians. Pointing out Rahms brother is writing it and referring to “death panels” is brilliant. It will force the media to cover what they have been covering up.


119 posted on 08/07/2009 2:49:40 PM PDT by stevestras
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Interesting Sarah releases this on a Friday which is "normally" considered a dead day for news that will be buried.

But just like Sarah's stepping down announcement on a Friday, this new statement may dominate the news cycle the entire weekend again!

120 posted on 08/07/2009 2:50:10 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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