Posted on 08/17/2009 5:33:14 PM PDT by jazusamo
There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been attempted twice in the first 6 months of a new administration.
The fact that they got away with it before, with the "stimulus" bill, may have led them to believe that they could get away with it again.
But the first bill simply spent hundreds of billions of dollars. The current "health care" bill threatens to take life-and-death decisions out of the hands of individuals and their doctors, transferring those decisions to Washington bureaucrats.
People are taking that personally — as they should. Your life and death, and that of your loved ones, is as personal as it gets.
The mainstream media are again circling the wagons to protect Barack Obama, but this time it may not work. One of those front-page editorials disguised as a news article in the New York Times begins: "The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama's health care proposals would create government-sponsored 'death panels' to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks."
Nowhere? Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is "Special Advisor for Health Policy" for the Obama administration. That's nowhere? He is also co-author of an article on Americans' "over-utilization" of medical care in the June 18, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Is that nowhere?
Dr. Emanuel's article points out that Americans do not visit doctors or go into hospitals more than people in other industrialized countries. In fact we go to both places less often than people do in those other countries, which include countries with government-controlled medical care.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
Their plan will never escape the term “death panel,” for that is exactly what it is, and the people know it.
Oh, you’re sick? Let me counsel you about your death options. We can’t afford to treat you because our cronies are collecting so much graft from the system, so you might as well be patriotic and just go now. Don’t worry about your wife and small children because we’ll take just as good care of them too. Buh bye.
The politicians haven’t read this document, but a number of their constituents sure as hell have!
“End of Life Consultation” website
www.thegrimreaper.com
Thanks for the ping.
I pray Sowell's right on this one...
Justin Tevis stands up to ACORN Groups in front of Lois Capps office
Good for Tevis, he’s saying it like it is.
There is a group of smart young people from the Santa Ynez Valley who are standing up for Freedom. The Santa Ynez Valley was home to the Reagan Ranch in the 1980s when these fine young Americans were born. They are not going to stand idly by while our founding principles are destroyed.
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