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Old 08-12-2009, 09:05 PM
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Default Re: Health Care Reform Dead

Well, IMO, the pro-reform side is a little too polite sometimes. The middle has shifted pretty far just by virtue of the fact that the right wing in this country has been allowed to get away with their lies and bigotry and flat out sociopathy for too long; and just about everyone else thinks they need to be polite about it and let them have their say.

So sure, let them have their say, and if what they say is idiotic and wrong, call them on it without tippytoeing around. Ask them where the hell they got their ideas, and why they couldn't be bothered to check them for accuracy before they made their dumb little signs and drove down to some town hall meeting.

And if what they say is selfish and evil, call them sociopaths.

And twist their dumb socialism arguments around every. single. time. and address them as though they're arguing to eliminate Medicare. It's not even dishonest. Pretty much any anti-reform argument applies perfectly to Medicare. In most cases, the arguments are more relevant.

Tell those wheezing old greediest generationers, if that's really what you want, say we do eliminate socialized medicine, but who's going to pay for your Hoveround and for your diabeetus testing equipment?

Maybe if we're not all having to foot the bill for you, productive citizens would be better able to afford their own healthcare!

Last polls I saw, the vast majority of Americans want some form of public healthcare option. And the demographics that are most opposed to it are older people. That is, those who already have socialized healthcare subsidized by everyone else.

And those people really don't deserve to be treated as though what they're demanding is reasonable.
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