Sarah Palin Asserts the Obvious ….
…. which is why those who want to fudge, obfuscate, pretend and hide what they’re really up to, and what they’re really all about, hate her so deeply.
In her first communication since leaving office, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin described in an Internet posting Friday that President Obama’s plan to overhaul the health care system was evil.
“Who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course,” the former vice presidential candidate wrote on her Facebook page.
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil,” Palin wrote.
For those who really don’t yet get it, the PJM column put up today at BizzyBlog, which immediately follows below if you’re on the home page, explains it. See the three point-making paragraphs at the end. You’ll get it after reading them; the only question is whether you have the integrity and perhaps courage to admit that those points, and of course Palin, are right.
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UPDATE: Michelle Malkin piles on, God love her (”Death panels? What death panels? Oh, those death panels”) –
- Elderly left at risk by NHS bidding wars to find cheapest care with reverse auctions
- Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections
- Elderly suffer in care shambles
- Twisted priorities that let the elderly suffer
- NHS neglects elderly depression
- NHS failure on Down’s screening kills healthy babies
- ‘I said to the nurse, please feed her’
It is easy to see why the statists hate Sarah so much. Plus she is absolutely the most gorgeous middle-aged woman alive.
Comment by Mike Kelley — August 9, 2009 @ 11:05 am
I agree. She tells the truth about this flat-out and bluntly and that irritates that morally relativist, squishy and fence sitting moderates to no end. There is nothing more harmful to society than neutrality.
If they don’t think your life is worth the cost, or as Sarah puts it your level of productivity in society is deemed too low to bother with anymore, you’re done.
Comment by zf — August 9, 2009 @ 4:09 pm
If you are a single uneducated worker, you will die a slow painful death.
Comment by sr-71pilot — August 9, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
#3, please elaborate.
Comment by TBlumer — August 9, 2009 @ 9:49 pm
Before you believe anything go to this link:
And understand that the Annenberg Public Policy Center was created by Reagan Republicans as a non-partisan check for the “liberal” media.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/07/false-euthanasia-claims/
Now understand – Sarah knows all this. She’s too smart not to, but she says it anyway. What does that make her?
Comment by Kent — August 10, 2009 @ 12:01 am
#4, nice try, no sale, false premise.
I looked at Palin’s message and didn’t see “euthanasia” in it. I see discussion of denial of care leading to death.
What we’re talking about, as I have said several times this week, is rationing of care taking us down the road to denial of care you deny we will go down, even though virtually every other statist system has done that.
You cannot deny based on the history of other systems and what’s in the current bill that this won’t take place.
At the ABC forum, the President himself even said in effect that he would have denied treatment to the 99 year-old — yet you still won’t acknowledge the obvious.
The stimulus bill started us down the road to “comparative effectiveness” if statist health care establishes itself — yet you pretend that it won’t lead to denial of care.
Oh, and bleep you for creating the false argument and pretending that she said what she didn’t say. Come back when you have a real and honest argument.
If it’s such a sticking point, you would think they’d take the “not voluntary” end of life consultations out of the bill. But they won’t. Why not?
Comment by TBlumer — August 10, 2009 @ 1:16 am