Seniors are America's new Jews

American Thinker ^ | December 27, 2009 | Stuart Schwartz

[neverdem]

They are objects of derision.  Influential government officials refer to them as unproductive, of less value than others in society. The political party running the government aggressively denies them access to health services while putting in place bureaucracies devoted, in effect, to ending their lives.

The Jews in Nazi Germany?  In the Soviet Union of Stalin? In a socialist paradise set up by the rabidly anti-Semitic United Nations? No, seniors in a United States governed by the party of President Barack Obama and his allies on the Democratic left.

The Democratic Party senate healthcare bill makes it official: Seniors are America's new Jews.

An exaggeration? Yes and no.  In no way do I wish to trivialize the horrific slaughter of Europe's Jewish population by the Nazis, nor the systematic oppression of Jews in history. However, Obama and the Democratic Party have embraced a worldview that allows them to go after seniors in much the same manner that tyrants (and the United Nations) have used Jew-bashing as a tool to accumulate power and steal wealth.

Seniors are the new go-to group for this radical president and Democratic congress as they pursue power, wealth, and the cultural transformation of the United States. Every version of the Democrat healthcare bill-with all senate Republicans opposing this war against seniors-relies on drastically reduced access to the services for which seniors have paid through taxes over a lifetime, or upon which they may choose to spend personal resources.

The party and government of Barack Obama is astonishingly brutal about the value of that lifetime. A ‘senior moment' should be just that, they say: a brief period rarely extending beyond the 60s. For us, of course, not them.

This is government by those who consider themselves intellectually elite, thinkers who insist that a free-market economy that has enabled the elderly to live longer violates the rights of the younger by disproportionate consumption of healthcare resources.

The president's healthcare czar views the optimal age for societal worth as somewhere south of 60 years. The Democrat approach is philosophically founded upon the work of Ivy League academic Dr. Daniel Callahan, who mentored Obama health policymaker Ezekiel Emanuel and who advocates medical resource rationing as a simple and powerful solution to the "dilemma"-lack of community usefulness-posed by market-enabled longer lives.

Simply put: The utility of a citizen's life to an Obama government is defined by the amount of one's work that can be taxed vs. the resources consumed, and the government-defined value of the group to which the individual belongs. Seniors are just not useful, says Tom Daschle, the prominent Obama Democrat who continues to play a key role in shaping Obamacare, and it is time for them to accept the "pain" of less access to healthcare.

Too many Jews...uh, seniors? Okay-let'em die.

What Sarah Palin termed "dealth panels" are only a small part of a new bureaucracy that will stand between seniors and life. Small wonder The Wall Street Journal characterized Obamacare as an "assault" on seniors, while a British newspaper, surveying events across the pond, starkly stated "the elderly might as well have a bull's eye painted on their backs." It continued, "Creepy, right? It's totalitarian, it's ugly, and it's not the American way."

But it is the American way in a nation governed by Obama, who has a vision that requires some to have less so that others may be given more. And the vast middle class of seniors, almost 40-million strong, a lifetime of working and paying taxes behind them, are the ideal scapegoats to fund a radical Democrat vision.

James Lewis describes the Obama team approach with devastating clarity: they have perfected scapegoating, an "emotional high explosive that you can direct at will." And not just Will-we're talking Bernice, Fred, and Gladys, the fifteen percent of the population who have the audacity-an Obama word-to age.

Seniors now find themselves as the official go-to group for a president intent on taking both life and property and giving to those who are younger, more diverse, to illegal immigrants, and Democratic Party allies. Consequently, the Obama-led Democrats, with the help of intellectual and media elites, have declared open season on grandma and grandpa, with Newsweek Evan going so far as to feature a cover detailing "The Case for Killing Granny."  

In Obama's America, wrinkles are about as trendy as white belts and polyester slacks, and gray is the new Jew.

Democrat healthcare is one of many "audacious visions," a Georgetown University professor wrote, to replace a Judeo-Christian culture with a statist worldview. The founders were wrong, Obama says, when they unashamedly founded a nation based, as Thomas Jefferson put it, upon the belief in the dignity of each individual-regardless of age-who possesses "personal liberty" given "by the Author of nature."

The president Newsweek editor Evan Thomas called "sort of God" takes issue with the view of seniors dictated by the  "Author of nature," that rock of Judeo-Christian culture who demands in his Word, in Deuteronomy, that humanity "Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long..."

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob views long life and respect for seniors as a blessing.  But the Democratic Party healthcare bill is no Deuteronomy, long life is viewed as a market-driven curse, and for Barack Obama-the god of Harry, Nancy, and Evan-seniors are expendable.

It is not hard to imagine President Obama standing at a window of the White House, watching the Tea Parties and streams of protestors. He observes the multitude of seniors in the crowds, smiles a smug smile and quietly whispers in their direction: 

"If the Jew fits, wear it."

Stuart H. Schwartz is on the faculty at Liberty University in Virginia.

[higgmeister]

Seniors are America's new Jews

Bump for deep thoughts and all its implications.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

There’s a lot to the revelation of this line of 0bamathink.

[NurdlyPeon]

Aaaaaa......I think this might be just a little bit over the top.

[Cindy]

No.

[Fee]

Before the Dems and Obama declared war on the elderly, corporate America declared war on the elderly worker. Hit your late 40’s they are looking for a college grad to replace you. You are the first on the future layoff list. It is not just about cost, it is also about image. Look gray and out of shape, the same age man who has hair dyed black, goes to the gym and looks fit will replace you. It is the whole culture that is the problem. Corporate America and Madison Avenue created it, now the Dems may use it as a tool to keep power.

[Fee]

Before the Dems and Obama declared war on the elderly, corporate America declared war on the elderly worker. Hit your late 40’s they are looking for a college grad to replace you. You are the first on the future layoff list. It is not just about cost, it is also about image. Look gray and out of shape, the same age man who has hair dyed black, goes to the gym and looks fit will replace you. It is the whole culture that is the problem. Corporate America and Madison Avenue created it, now the Dems may use it as a tool to keep power.

[Cindy]

A small sampler of what I have looked at recently ON THE INTERNET:

TOWNHALL.com: "DEMOCRATS ENSURE AMERICA WILL NO LONGER BE THE LAST BEST HOPE OF EARTH" -Column by Dennis Prager (December 22, 2009)

Watching the demise of America's Healthcare System; introducing Obamacare -- Socialized "Healthcare" (December 24, 2009)

Online.WSJ.com - Opinion: "HARRY REID TURNS INSURANCE INTO A PUBLIC UTILITY This health bill creates a massive cash crunch and then bankruptcies for many insurers." by Richard A. Epstein (December 22, 2009, 8:16 pm ET)

POINT OF LAW.com: "IMPERMISSIBLE RATEMAKING IN HEALTH-INSURANCE REFORM: WHY THE REID BILL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL" by Richard A. Epstein (December 18, 2009)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE COMMUNISTS BEHIND OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE GOALS" by John Perazzo (December 23, 2009)

Link

[Cindy]

Background Link

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308266/posts

[Lancey Howard]

Seniors have been so dismissed by Ubama and the rats that they were all but ignored in the debate over Mengelecare.

[pandoraou812]

read this!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Overcome the shock of this notion by considering the evidence:

1: The appointment of Ezekiel Emauel, perhaps the poster child for the evaluation of the aged based upon their value to society..however you wish to characterize it.

2: The $500 billion in cuts in Medicare

3: The idea that if we are going to overthrow America, then we had better start by overthrowing America’s “greatest generation” so that we can re-educate the pliable youth.

Over the top? Hardly.

[Cindy]

I’ll ditto your post.

[JohnLongIsland]

Unfortunately, in the next presidential election, as always, seventy-five percent of the Jewish seniors in this country will still vote for BHO.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This is a tremendous line of argument, that merits repetition and development. Sarah Palin has/had it right, if a tad blunt.

[Cindy]

I understand.

I am an old person, every moment is a “senior moment” for me.

I have been following this issue closely.
(See background link above.)

[Cindy]

This is not about being a Jew.

This IS about the demise of seniors — sooner vs. later.

[higgmeister]

I thought of the movie “Wild in the Streets”(1968).

[cherry]

I'm in my upper 50's so I think I can say this...the "elderly" have enjoyed the greatest benefits America has ever afforded....the seniors alive now are getting many times over what they "donated" to SS....fabulous health insurance comparatively...discounts everywhere....cheaper insurance...lower property taxes for some of them....

and lets face the fact that they have been feeding off the fatted calf for a long, long time and happily pulling the lever for every Ratfink who would give them more, more, more at the expense of the working generations.....

now they (we,and me) are going to reap what they have sowed.....an out of control govt in deep bankruptcy for outlandish benefits.....

what are supposed to do now?....everytime they have "fixed" SS and Medicare in the last 40 yrs its meant more taxes on the working people ....more benefits for those that don't work....

the AARp and their ilk have gotten what they wanted and NOW the seniors don't like it?..........

voting has consequences.....its not like we didn't see this coming....

[ntmxx]

This is the direction that the political class has been heading for 30 years, by balkanizing certain groups pitting everyone against each other for practice, with a generational divide supported by governmental programs, now is the time to exterminate a populace as unproductive and useless to society, remember what the French caused during 2003 minor heat wave, “…a major reason is the impact of environmentalism on government energy policy. To address the alleged threat of global warming, France, along with the rest of the European Union, has imposed steep energy taxes in order to reduce energy consumption. As a result, Michaels explained, energy costs to consumers in France are about 25 percent higher than to consumers in the United States. At the same time, average incomes in France are considerably lower than those in America, which, in relative terms, makes electricity there all the more expensive….” (http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth—835-Death_by_Environmentalism.aspx.) upwards of 20,000 died, no one blinked and you don’t think they have a clue, yes they do and are willing to disgorge themselves of an unneeded expense; such as old people? So attempt to keep in mind that when a citizen dies at the expense of government programs such as environmentalism, medical care or political corruption, the political class and friends of government should be exterminated from their positions (you decide how individually) and not receive any future benefits at the citizenries expense (this should include their families). Keeping in mind, when the government is your Master, you are the Servant; such is unconstitutional. Any actions that follow from tyranny by government is their fault.