They Will Kill Your Grandma and Make Your Toddler Read Karl Marx!!!
Yep, you heard me right. I've been paying attention to screaming old dudes and ladies telling the government to "keep their hands off of my Medicare", I watched esteemed Sarah Palin talk about how her down syndrome baby and grandma were going to go in front of the Death Panels, I've heard many elected officials with R next to their names state with utmost certainty that we would be euthanizing the very old, the very disabled and indeed anyone who would not be deemed "best use of taxpayer dollars".
I assume the screamers, the ex-governors and the elected officials have read the bill, all 1000 and change pages of it. I assume it's all in there.
So I say, by all means, go to the Town Halls and keep on screaming as loudly as you can to save your toddlers and grandmas from certain death by euthanasia or communism. Keep on yelling and drowning out any meaningful discussion because you are scared shitless of something...mostly of words like socialism and communism and European-inspired. Most importantly, keep not actually reading and delving into what the plan calls for, you lazy fear-mongering freaks. After all, you all have it on good authority of Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh what this plan is about. Fox News knows best.
I will, however ask you all, when you take a breath from yelling, to allow for a tiny little possibility that maybe, just maybe there are those of us who would WANT to have an AFFORDABLE OPTION - those of us like my mom who has not been able to buy insurance because she had cancer surgery almost 10 years ago, those of us who cannot afford to pay $600 a month for maybe being able to go to the doctor, unless the doc chooses to disappear from the network for just the day of your appointment/procedure, and then magically reappear, hence mitigating in advance insurance company's ever having to use my money to provide care.
Sometimes I get the feeling that the glass-houses the screamers occupy are bullet proof, where no actual life as it is for most people penetrates, no discourse gets past the clichés, and no curiosity or compassion mars the inherent righteousness of their ways. And they are scared shitless of letting any of it go, even when no one is asking them to give anything up; even when the fears are based on imaginary monsters.
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