On another forum, I said at the time that she had laid out the perfect trap with “death panel” that she knew the left and the media (BIRM) could not help but fall in.
I personally expected mostly snipes from RINOs and Dem hacks...but the White House press secretary? The PRESIDENT??
That told me her trap probably worked even better than maybe even she envisioned. Or perhaps she was waiting for it to filter up to O before snapping the trap shut.
At any rate, she gave it time to percolate...and percolate it did...circulating through our culture and driving the debate on this health care legislation. She’s driving and Obama’s responding. I LOVE IT.
Death Panels?
Now, why in the world would the government want to sentence any old person to death or encourage them to die?
1. Reduce future government health care medical costs to this person.
2. Reduce future Social Security payments to this person.
3. Allow the government to get their half of the inheritance (via the inheritance tax, often called the death tax.)
Will there be a complicated formula combining age, quality of life, and other factors to determine how much health care expenses the government will spend on you?
No. The government will want you dead the moment that money spent on you by the government exceeds what you pay in taxes. It is a simple cash flow calculation.
You will be encouraged (at first) to die or required (later on) to die based upon the year that you take out more than what you put in.
You’re right—it’s a masterful setup and, now, pounding. I love what she’s done in Facebook over the last week. The tone of what she’s posted is first-rate.