Posted on 09/06/2009 6:27:00 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Professor=dumb bastard!
I, as others, didn't get it at first. But we're not dunces. The burden is on the writer to be clear. The technique he uses is good--draw readers in by saying the opposite in the headline of what he really believes But he doesn't execute properly. He does start to reverse what he says in the title in the proper place--the third paragraph--but he does so indirectly. Professional writers know people skim. And they know the most avid and knowledgable readers skim the most and the fastest. All it takes is a simple declarative sentence in the third of fourth paragraph to yank them to the real point of an essay. This writer didn't do it as we can see from the comments.
lol...the first 5 posts are 0-5 in getting past the first sentence before posting.
Don't forget she shoots guns!
Read the article....to the end.
Sure, there is a provision in the bill for end-of-life counseling by doctors, but it does not establish “death panels.”
Of course it doesn’t...but they’ve convinced a few Americans that removal of the end-of-life counseling provision was the end to the death panels. One never had anything to do with the other. Now, when the panel decides to ration your care, there won’t be any free end-of-life counseling.
Reread. Go to the end, It’s not as it might appear to you!!!
Reread. Go to the end, It’s not as it might appear to you!!!
Hey, too many pluses to remember them all...heh. Wish I could dress a moose like her also...
At this point, I would like to see all democrats rounded up and given 24 hours to choose the country they’ll spend the rest of their lives in and ship them the hell out.
Uh oh...well, we all do that from time to time, LOL.
The issue here is FRAUD, not morality. The unwitting test subjects were TOLD they were being treated when they were not. Fraud is actionable and since the government was involved, IIRC, it should be held to account by the heirs of those who were so misused. There is no MORALITY involved; MORALITY is what you do when you’re alone. ETHICS are what’re involved, as ethics are how you deal with others. And ethics CAN on occasion be legislated. This would appear to be such a case.
There was a FReeper, I forget who, and who I hope is still around, whose tagline read something like: "Proudly posting without reading the article since 1998." [^))
lol, it wasn’t me, but it could have been. Somehow I did manage to read this before posting.
If you still think the author is AGAINST Sarah’s position, you did NOT read far enough. Trust me on that and finish the article.
crazy like a fox.
It's a no brainer!!!!
A totally bankrupt American insurance company will provide faster, better and higher quality care than a fully funded government boondoggle.
The biggest juicy target for cuts will most certainly be the elderly, as they are no longer productive. It is what Europe and Canada have limited and why their people come here!!! Next on the list is testing and procedures to test. Better to have a idea of what the problem is before you spend taxpayer funds. The go home a wait list will grow like crab grass during rainy season.
All you need to do is look at what they have accomplished in socialist countries to which they now compare our current system to and call it lacking and shameful..........
If O decides to ram this through, which I believe he will, all hell is going to bust loose.
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