Old People Should Just Die Already

Silver Planet ^ | 06/18/2009 | Sara Myers

[LaineyDee]

In 1974, then–Colorado Governor Dick Lamm, an outspoken advocate of physician-assisted suicide explained his support for the measure this way. He said, "We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life."

You first, Mr. Lamm..

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

So, what’s Mr. Cowen’s solution? Let’s limit health care benefits to old and disabled people.

Oh.

Sort of like a death panel, then, you mean.

Naaaaahhhhhhhhh. What am I saying? That's just plain crazy talk, is what that is.

Gotta be. Olbermann and Madcow both said so.

Like, a billion gazillion times, even.

[cripplecreek]

Die for the greater good of the reich.

[TexasFreeper2009]

here is an interesting thought I have never heard anyone discuss...

Eventually the baby boomers will all die... won't that solve all the issues with the social programs since the population wont be so heavily tilted towards the elderly after they are gone?

[Cincinatus]

[TYVets]

0bama has brought change

It is now:

Die for the welfare queens.

[shadeaud]

Soilent Green with a tortilla and top shelf Margaretta emmmmm emmmmm emmmmmmm

[Vaduz]

Physician-assisted suicide>I can’t prove it but I bet it’s some place in the healthcare bill in hack jive.

[paulycy]

[nmh]

Ah, die for the greater good of youth and illness free. So we wll have utopia of perfect healthy specmens to be controlled by the elite and the defict wll magcally disappear. This is horrendous.

[cripplecreek]

Our death sets them free.

[bgill]

That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking this morning. Too many old people. Too much burden on Social Security. Too many on Medicare. Too many taxes going their way, etc. Sounds like that 70’s movie where everyone has a limited life time and then they come after you. Can’t put granny (or you or me and congress aren’t spring chickens anymore) on an iceberg because they’re all melting so bring on ObamaCare’s death panels.

[nmh]

That’s a great sign!

Seniors are NOT shovel ready.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Pelosi and Reid, the Hitler’s of our time.

[dforest]

No that will not help. If all the boomers are dead the demoncrats will just see that as a cash cow to spend more money.

They will spend healthcare funds just like they have spent SS funds, all the while proclaiming that it will be in a lockbox.

Get ready for them to dip into your bank account. They will do this.

[nmh]

Yes, I was wondering ... is it 1984 time?

Will they recycle the old people too so “save the earth” and this imaginary scarce resource scare stuff?

[just me]

They are building an ant farm.. If your not healthy enough to work and pay taxes, you die....

[staytrue]

I don’t want people to die, but, I am thinking some of the same things.

I think the adult disabled and elderly should have their govt medical benefits reduced along with the healthy adults and healthy elderly.

And this will cause the death of some of them.

[gusopol3]

Here’s what that says: pay in all your life , while you’re young and healthy and not needing medical services,to a system to provide care for those who are ahead of you, then when you get there, the benefits are “too expensive. “ That is a winning political argument, and I really hope the Democrats embrace it, like the old twice afflicted Specter did on Chris Wallace this AM, talking about the Medicare rationing panel being like the military base closing commissions. Just make sure the members of those panels ( the death panels) names and addresses are publicly known.