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Commentary: U.S. will eventually love health care overhaul
McClatchy News ^
| April 1, 2010
| By James Werrell [not Wanker in name, but in spirit]
Posted on 04/02/2010 10:37:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The scare tactics used to oppose Medicare in the 1960s -- not to mention Social Security in the 1940s -- were much the same as what critics of comprehensive health care reform are saying about the bill signed into law by the president this week. If anything, the current rhetoric is even more overheated: "This is a socialistic plan to deprive you of your freedom, kill your grandmother and bankrupt the nation in the process."
Americans should take comfort from that. The nation came to love both Social Security and Medicare, and I predict they will come to love the new health care reforms, too.
I will go out on a limb and make this prediction: At a Tea Party rally some 20 or 30 years down the road, an enraged citizen at a town hall meeting, probably in South Carolina, will shout the words: "Keep your government hands off my Obamacare!"
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: failure; journalism; obamacare; socialism
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To: sam_paine
Stifle your LOLz! My LOLz have indeed, been stifled.
;-)
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posted on
04/02/2010 11:16:16 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: SIDENET
You’re god damn right!!!!
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posted on
04/02/2010 11:16:30 AM PDT
by
dalereed
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah, like citizens of the UK love the NHS. /sarc
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posted on
04/02/2010 11:19:56 AM PDT
by
Clock King
(There's no way to fix D.C.)
To: dalereed
I can tell.
I got four exclamation points on that last post from you.
That's pretty serious.
May I recommend Caps lock? Sometimes, nothing less will do.
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posted on
04/02/2010 11:21:35 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Commentary: U.S. will eventually love health care overhaul”
What they meant was eventually we’ll be afraid to criticize it.
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posted on
04/02/2010 11:33:15 AM PDT
by
Spok
(Free Range Republican)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I invite this author to come to my residence and personally convince me of his position.
I am more than unhappy with this bill, and with NObama, Reid, & Pelosi in general.
To: dalereed; SIDENET
PMFJI, WTFIGO? WOB IMNSHO. JFYI, INAL IYKWIM.
GR&D
47
posted on
04/02/2010 11:43:16 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I just LOVE these Friday Silliness threads!
48
posted on
04/02/2010 11:44:13 AM PDT
by
Thom Pain
(Defending the Constitution is CENTRIST; not RIGHT WING! Don't be labeled!)
To: Lazamataz
49
posted on
04/02/2010 11:44:38 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
50
posted on
04/02/2010 11:44:48 AM PDT
by
GloriaJane
(Pro-Choice = Pro-Death........ Pro-Life = Pro-LIFE!)
To: Lazamataz
The language of this country is English!!!!
51
posted on
04/02/2010 11:45:39 AM PDT
by
dalereed
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The nation came to love both Social Security and Medicare, Speak for yourself, jackass. Socialist inSecurity is a colossal ripoff, and I'm likely to get the shaft from it.
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posted on
04/02/2010 11:45:46 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: dalereed; SIDENET
Я говорил на английском языке, Вы глупый гусь! Вы бушуете и подскакиваете вокруг так приятно, и это забавно. Благодарите Вас!
53
posted on
04/02/2010 11:48:18 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
To: dalereed; Lazamataz
The language of this country is English!!!!TRU DAT!
54
posted on
04/02/2010 11:51:38 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
04/02/2010 11:52:55 AM PDT
by
muglywump
(Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
To: Lazamataz
ตรวจสอบอาหารนำเข้าเร่งสกัดกั้นก่อนถึงมือผู้บริโภค ตรวจสอบอาหารนำเข้าเร่งสกัดกั้นก่อนถึงมือผู้บริโภค
56
posted on
04/02/2010 11:53:58 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Lazamataz
Thank God for Google Translate, you silly goose!
57
posted on
04/02/2010 11:56:02 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Oldeconomybuyer
All this proves is that the legislative ‘winners’ get to write history.
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posted on
04/02/2010 1:10:46 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
McCommunist News again...?
These people are running ragged pushing Obie’s agenda...
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posted on
04/02/2010 2:34:51 PM PDT
by
wac3rd
(SYCASUSE)
To: Thom Pain
“All right, all right. Stop this. It’s gotten silly!” ~ The colonel from Monty Python
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