Wednesday, June 01, 2011

The Enemy Within

Quotes
  Millions of dollars of negative ads are being run to try and scare seniors and trying to confuse seniors. You know, the irony of this Bill, is with all this Mediscare that the Democrats are running, it’s Obamacare itself that ends Medicare as we know it. Obamacare takes half a trillion dollars from Medicare — not to make it more solvent but to spend on this other government program, Obamacare. And then it creates this 15 panel board of unelected, unaccountable, bureaucrats starting next year to price control and ration Medicare for current seniors.  [Weekly Standard]
That's Paul Ryan responding to the Democrat's decision to block budget cutting and blameRepublicans for trying to kill Medicare. From Hot Air
"Senate Democrats “leaders” have made a political decision—DO NOTHING and attack Paul Ryan’s budget. Harry Reid told the Los Angeles Times last week. “It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage"

Here's another quote on a similar subject.
  "Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. George S. Patton
Boned Jello

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is that I see Emperor Rep. Henry A. Waxman wearing a veil?
olds-mo-william

Paul C said...

Rodge, my first thought upon your Patton quote regarding cowards was this exchange from the Simpsons.

Bart: What's the matter with you, soldier?

Coward: It's my nerves, sir. I just can't stand the barking any more.

Bart: Your nerves!

Bart slaps the child and a tear drops from the child's eye.

Bart: I won't have cowards in my army!

Abe slaps him.

Bart: Ow!

Abe: Sorry, Bart. You can push them out of a plane, you can march them off a cliff, you can send them off to die on some godforsaken rock, but for some reason you can't slap them. Now apologize to that boy right now.

Bart: Sorry, man.

However your post speaks to the Nanny State and how big government bureaucrats end up being the great decider and protector of all people, due to politicians meddling and passing laws determining the affairs of the population for their own good, Medicare/Obamacare are perfect examples. Those sacred cows are off limits once enacted and bureaucrats expand the mandates well beyond reasonable... see Tommy Douglas' Canada, where everything healthcare is free (howls with laughter) no rationing of medical treatments here nope, none, everyone has equal access to health care, no choice in your own health care is available, they'll decide when and how, unless of course you're a criminal in prison, a professional sports player, or a politician, access to timely healthcare is a little different for those folks...

TUA has an interesting post up at Sondra's in this vein regarding kids and tanning, her below the fold is especially enlightening. You can let them fornicate like rabbits but tanning beds are strictly verboten

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