Pelosi: Jail time “very fair” for failing to buy your patriotic ObamaCare coverage

Hot Air ^ | November 11, 2009 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

It’s very fair to send people who disregard the federal mandate to buy health insurance to prison, Nancy Pelosi says, because otherwise they’ll assault citizens … with a bill for medical services … or something.

Apparently, the occasionally unhealthy have become such a security risk that we need to imprison them for opting to pay their own way. Infidels Are Cool has the key exchange::

[Little Ray]

At least they’ll have health care while in prison...

[DoughtyOne]

No doubt about it RU88. Same here...

I believe her big fat mouth will help facilitate that. That’s why I support her continuing to utter these brain dead thoughts.

[rbg81]

Gee, Nancy—how expensive it is to keep otherwise law abiding and productive citizens in jail? Of course, its probably better for them in jail ‘cause the health care is sooo good. After all, that’s why everyone does anything at all—to get the health care.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Jail time for the masses, fair. Yet the Botox B!t¢h exempts herself completely from the law.

Fairness means nothing to the commie left.

[MrB]

They’re just being more upfront about their elitism lately.

They’ve always believed, as elitists and collectivists have always believed, that they are far too important to be held to the same standards and restrictions as the masses.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Is there a process for We The People to initiate and pass a constitutional amendment forcing the president and all House and Senate legislators to have to follow all national laws and not exempt themselves? How do we get this started? A lot of laws they pass would not be passed if they were also legally bound by them.

How do I get this started?

[Logical me]

Totalitarian communists.

You got that right and we are really going down that tube fast.

[MozarkDawg]

Press your state legislature to call for Constitutional convention, Article V.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Ah! I see that there is not a way for us to make Washington DC politicians follow there own laws. There are only 2 ways. This can never come from the politicians themselves, eliminating the first means. And a constitutional convention has never and will never occur, eliminating the second.

We are so screwed.

[Darren McCarty]

Waco pt II?

[Overtaxed Patriot]

I’ll take the insurance Pelosi has. Free and the best in the world.

[TLI]

This woman is stark raving nuts.

Let those who voted her in see her for what she is.

or not a one of these people will be viable candidates even for picking up dog poop.

Interesting you should mention those things. Her constituents probably will continue to vote for her because the are ALL nuts enough to actual vote for reaffirmation of a City Ordinance that allows the homeless to s**t in public on the sidewalk.

There is even a local effort to try to "educate" people that they actually do need to s**t into a toilet.

Believe it or not...

[Overtaxed Patriot]

That’s right, 40-50% won’t pay a dime while the rest of us work our asses off and risk jail time.

Assuming anyone still has a job. People will be working at gunpoint because there will be no incentive to produce if the f'ing government is going to confiscate all you make.

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, “What a country.” Yakov Smirnoff.

[TigersEye]

Totalitarian communists.

You got that right and we are really going down that tube fast.

There is no friction to slow the slide. No one, with any real authority, is speaking about it or against it.

Totalitarian communists.

You got that right and we are really going down that tube fast.

There is no friction to slow the slide. No one, with any real authority, is speaking about it or against it.

[justiceseeker93]

Pelosi and her minions have been basing their "thinking" on a huge fallacy, working under the false presumption that having health insurance and having access to adeqauate health care are like six of one and a half dozen of the other.

No, health care does not equal health insurance. An individual may have health insurance, yet it may not be adequate for him or her to obtain access to the medical services he or she needs. The flip side of this is equally true: one may not have health insurance, yet can be perfectly capable to arrange to provide for the medical services he or she requires.

So for Pelosi to say that one who does not have health insurance is, by implication, a drain on the public treasury, is nonesensical.

As Rush Limbaugh pointed out on his show today, she is playing on the leftist staple - class warfare and class envy - by attempting to imprison the voluntarily uninsured. And her defense of that "throw them into jail" notion at the press conference today shows once again how she treats the civil liberties of American citizens with utter contempt.

[Happyinmygarden]

“Occasional they say it is “socialist” but when they see it is economically fascist, and understand it, they tacitly like it”

No offense, but can you translate that sentence please?

[FormerACLUmember]

Investors Business Daily totally nails the evil drama queen Pelosi's fundamental dishonesty:

[The Wizard]

call Ft Hood
Nazi Peeeeelosui is clearly an enemy of America.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.

It's very fair to send people who disregard the federal mandate to buy health insurance to prison, Nancy Pelosi says, because otherwise they'll assault citizens

What we really need for health care reform is cap and trade -- too much health care is wasted, contributing to too little being available elsewhere... and those who don't need much at all should be able to sell "health care credits" to those who currently get too much health care, so that they aren't forced to give up the health care they feel they need, but have to buy health care credits from those who haven't used as much.