Are we there yet?
Posted on 05/11/2010 7:32:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
>> One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have “a duty to die” rather than become a burden to others.
I’m guessing this idea has caught on primarily among the YOUNG members of the “intelligentsia”.
As Poe once said, “Memento Mori.”
In this case, it’s more like You WILL Die!
You have to be educated beyond your intelligence to think the ideas of the left are good ideas.
Gives rise to the term “Harvard Stupid”.
I will be 63 tomorrow. My duty is to glorify my Lord Jesus Christ until the day He takes me Home.
Interesting how that works.
You can be sure that these same elites don't think it's their duty to die, either nope- it'll be your grandma's, then yours.
It won’t be just the elderly, once the Marxist state consolidates power it will be the duty of the unneeded to die, no matter what age.
Anyone need yet another proof that the DemoLefties are a murder/suicide death cult of freaks and perverts?
‘intellectuals” my ass! They are all just a bunch of Jim Jones socialist, anal retentive, control freak, plague rats.
as long as we give the free medical care to the illegal alien population, yes our own elderly will always come last.
Thank you! You are my first Happy Birthday wish from a fellow FReeper.
The Puppet Master, Soros requires Death Panels—that is one of the non negotiables. He was so ticked that his own father refused to die in a timely manner:
http://joytiz.com/2009/obamas-boss-gets-permanent-death-panels/
Sixty three isn’t old anymore.
The next American President will be elected on one promise:
“I will undo every piece of legislation, law, policy, and appointment of the Obama adminstration.”
Perhaps our current society HAS become desperately poor, as the wide majority seems to have discarded any concept of morality in daily life. Morally bankrupt, and soon to be financially bankrupt, the luxury of supporting the least able among us is becoming too great a burden.
But in pinpointing the elderly as the next “class” to be removed from any kind of favored position, the elites may have stirred a hornets’ nest. Over a lifetime, collectively the elderly have amassed a huge amount of treasure and available assets, more than able to hold their own in any showdown over access to resources on the market.
Old age and treachery will win over youthful enthusiasm and radical thinking just about every time.
As my late Daddy used to say..."Educated Idiots".
These same Dems who now wish to proscribe the elderly medical care are the same Dems who pushed to give them all things through Medicare, the Dems who were against Bush's Part D prescription because it was not generous enough. They did this for the usual Dem reason--to buy the votes of the dependable elderly voters. Now, they do not need us, as they have developed a new class of voters in the various victims groups.
Because of decades of pandering, there is practically nothing Medicare will not do, though the restrictions are begnning to roll in as costs soar. Need a $5,000 electric chair? Keep spending money on cigarettes; Medicare will get it for you. Cholesterol a little high? Medicare will pay $100+ per month for your statin, though it is NOT saving your life--in fact, may be hurting your heart by telling your liver to stop processing COQ10 as well as stopping cholesterol production. And WORST of all--transporting nursing home patients to and from the hospital for EVERYTHING in order to cover nursing home @$$eS.
The excesses of Medicare have increased the fraud, but killing the elderly will not stop it. Fraud and corruption will merely spread through whatever program evolves.
The answer, of course, is that old, forgotten word--RESPONSIBILITY--both personal and governmental. There isn't much anymore as people are more concerned with personal grievances and a gimme attitude.
vaudine
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