Ironic that many of these very same people falsely accused Obama of creating "death panels" in his Medicare health reforms are in fact proposing that they are the ones who will directly decide by biased, flawed social policy, who will live and die.
It goes hand in hand with the increasing posts on this Blog of the inhumane treatment of innocent human beings, the lack of compassion for those in need, and the blatant acts of Corporate America to seize control of our Country through corrupt politicians who are their bought, paid for puppets.
Gone will be moral ethics, the human compassionate responsibility of caring for those who are vulnerable, and in its place will be the god like know it all elite who will kill us softly, quietly, and efficiently through their unfeeling words of deceit.
First removing the feelings, then the soul, and insidiously creating a population that ultimately cares only for it's selfish individual needs and screws everyone else who gets in their way by trying to get a piece of life to survive.
KILLING ME SOFTLY
LET UNINSURED AMERICANS DIE became very clear a few days ago as a political, social policy during the GOP/Tea Party Presidential Debate that this is their ultimate plan for dealing with health care in America.
Support at GOP debate for letting the uninsured die
Los Angeles Times
Freedom is all about "taking your own risks," physician and presidential candidate Ron Paul said when asked who should pay to care for an American who chooses not to purchase health insurance and then gets critically ill. |
The French Revolution had Marie Antoinette reportedly urging the masses starved for bread to eat cake instead. Now progressive circles are jeering over an exchange involving Rep. Ron Paul that they say shows that conservatives are unwilling to use society’s power to treat sick Americans and would rather let them die instead.
The confrontation took place Monday night at the CNN/Tea Party debate among the Republican contenders for the nomination to face President Obama in 2012. At the center was Paul, a Texas congressman and libertarian icon. In many ways, it has been Paul who have helped define the “tea party” movement, by pushing limited government, more spending cuts and mistrust of central institutions such as the Federal Reserve.
Healthcare, and the role of a strong central government in providing it, is one of the key issues separating the GOP, which opposes Obama’s healthcare insurance overhaul. So it was no accident that the issue became part of the debate as host Wolf Blitzer posed a hypothetical to Paul, who is also a physician.
“A healthy, 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides: You know what? I'm not going to spend 200 or 300 dollars a month for health insurance, because I'm healthy; I don't need it,” Blitzer said. “But you know, something terrible happens; all of a sudden, he needs it. Who's going to pay for it, if he goes into a coma, for example? Who pays for that?
“In a society that you accept welfarism and socialism, he expects the government to take care of him,” Paul replied. Blitzer asked what Paul would prefer to having government deal with the sick man.
“What he should do is whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself,” Paul said. ”My advice to him would have a major medical policy, but not before —"
“But he doesn't have that,” Blitzer said. “He doesn't have it and he's — and he needs — he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?”
“That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks.,” Paul said, repeating the standard libertarian view as some in the audience cheered.
“But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die,” Blitzer asked.
“Yeah,” came the shout from the audience. That affirmative was repeated at least three times. Paul, who has always had a reputation for being a charitable man, disagreed with the idea that sick people should die, but insisted that the answer to the healthcare problem was not a large government.
“I practiced medicine before we had Medicaid, in the early 1960s when I got out of medical school,” Paul said. “I practiced at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio. And the churches took care of them. We never turned anybody away from the hospitals. And we've given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves and assume responsibility for ourselves, our neighbors, our friends; our churches would do it. This whole idea — that's the reason the cost is so high. The cost is so high because we dump it on the government. It becomes a bureaucracy. It becomes special interests. It kowtows to the insurance companies, then the drug companies.”
Still, that some in the audience were willing to let people die became a symptom of the conservatives’ disregard for people, at least as far as progressives are concerned.
“Last night we got a disturbing view into the tea party’s extreme right-wing position on healthcare when members of the audience clapped and cheered the idea of letting someone without health insurance die,” Eddie Vale, communications director for the group Protect Your Care said in an e-mail.
The confrontation took place Monday night at the CNN/Tea Party debate among the Republican contenders for the nomination to face President Obama in 2012. At the center was Paul, a Texas congressman and libertarian icon. In many ways, it has been Paul who have helped define the “tea party” movement, by pushing limited government, more spending cuts and mistrust of central institutions such as the Federal Reserve.
Healthcare, and the role of a strong central government in providing it, is one of the key issues separating the GOP, which opposes Obama’s healthcare insurance overhaul. So it was no accident that the issue became part of the debate as host Wolf Blitzer posed a hypothetical to Paul, who is also a physician.
“A healthy, 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides: You know what? I'm not going to spend 200 or 300 dollars a month for health insurance, because I'm healthy; I don't need it,” Blitzer said. “But you know, something terrible happens; all of a sudden, he needs it. Who's going to pay for it, if he goes into a coma, for example? Who pays for that?
“In a society that you accept welfarism and socialism, he expects the government to take care of him,” Paul replied. Blitzer asked what Paul would prefer to having government deal with the sick man.
“What he should do is whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself,” Paul said. ”My advice to him would have a major medical policy, but not before —"
“But he doesn't have that,” Blitzer said. “He doesn't have it and he's — and he needs — he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?”
“That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks.,” Paul said, repeating the standard libertarian view as some in the audience cheered.
“But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die,” Blitzer asked.
“Yeah,” came the shout from the audience. That affirmative was repeated at least three times. Paul, who has always had a reputation for being a charitable man, disagreed with the idea that sick people should die, but insisted that the answer to the healthcare problem was not a large government.
“I practiced medicine before we had Medicaid, in the early 1960s when I got out of medical school,” Paul said. “I practiced at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio. And the churches took care of them. We never turned anybody away from the hospitals. And we've given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves and assume responsibility for ourselves, our neighbors, our friends; our churches would do it. This whole idea — that's the reason the cost is so high. The cost is so high because we dump it on the government. It becomes a bureaucracy. It becomes special interests. It kowtows to the insurance companies, then the drug companies.”
Still, that some in the audience were willing to let people die became a symptom of the conservatives’ disregard for people, at least as far as progressives are concerned.
“Last night we got a disturbing view into the tea party’s extreme right-wing position on healthcare when members of the audience clapped and cheered the idea of letting someone without health insurance die,” Eddie Vale, communications director for the group Protect Your Care said in an e-mail.
“Even worse, none of the Republican candidates on stage expressed a word of disapproval as the tea party audience literally clapped for blood. This was a spectacle one would have expected back in the gladiatorial combat of ancient Rome, not at a presidential debate.”
According to census data released Tuesday, the number of Americans with no health insurance rose slightly in 2010 to 49.9 million from 49 million the year before. About 1.5 million fewer Americans were covered by employer-sponsored health insurance plans, while the number of people covered by government health insurance increased by nearly 2 million .
The driving forces behind this as always are an insatiable addiction for money, greed, power, and self importance by those in power.
They couch it all in manipulative, absurd, idiotic lies believed by many of the American people in polarizing to hate, mistrust each other, in order to brain wash that these programs which benefit them, somehow are causing the Federal deficit, while shrewdly ignoring the real causes such as, wasted trillions of dollars spent on unnecessary wars, corruption, kick backs to defense subcontractors, pork barrel projects, perks for the politicians (including using our taxpayer funds to buy the very best of lifetime family health care coverage), foreign aid that magically ends up in Dictators personal bank accounts, and of course, all those untouchable tax loopholes for the rich and Corporations.
Welcome to the new, improved version of America. What a sick farce of a joke we have already become as a nation of sheep fighting over tiny crumbs.
Life is cheap and disposable, the elderly, infirm, ill, you, your neighbors, one mistake not even caused by you, a whim of natures fury, a random illness, anything, and you will suddenly lose your ability to pay to stay alive, consigned to the dung pile, considered worthless, it will only get worse is my bet.
No-one should ever think that they are so arrogantly above the randomness of illness and financial catastrophe. If you want to believe the shit being shoveled by the Tea/GOP/Fox morons about big govt wasting your money, you keep buying that crap.
Someday when you least expect it, no one will give a damn about your needs, your self, your family, and the facts that you have paid taxes all your life but no one in Govt. will lift a finger to help you.
Someday when you least expect it, no one will give a damn about your needs, your self, your family, and the facts that you have paid taxes all your life but no one in Govt. will lift a finger to help you.
Scare tactics by me, no, just the truth, that politicians will waste your money on themselves, and they don't give a rats ass about you. Doesn't matter what political party will be in charge, but at least with the Democrats they will more than likely leave us larger crumbs to protect ourselves.
Don't look for anyone at that point to help you or provide aid in your time of unfortunate need. Besides they are calculating that less "useful" Americans alive helps reduce the budget deficit by reducing the drain on spending funds to support those in need .
Can this actually happen, why not, who is going to stop them?
