Smells like rationing spirit

Lest we forget from Sarah Palin on August 7th:

As more Americans delve in the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re saying not just no, but hell no!

The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply REFUSE TO PAY THE COST. And who will the suffer the most when they RATION care? The sick, elderly, and the disabled, of course. 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.

Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion.

Rep. Michele Bachmann highlighted the Orwellian thinking of the president’s health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the White House chief of staff, in a floor speech to the House of Representatives. I commend her for being a voice for the most precious members of our society, our children and our seniors.

We must step up and engage in the most crucial debate. Nationalizing our health care system is a POINT OF NO RETURN for government interference in the lives of its citizens. If we go down this path, there will be no turning back. Ronald Reagan once wrote, “Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on earth.” Let’s stop and think and make our voices heard before it’s too late.

Sarah Palin

(BOLD PRINT FROM ME)

TRANSLATION:

At once Sarah Palin disabuses the notion put out by some Democrats that Obamacare will not lead to socialized medicine. Her indignation and opposition to Obamacare is clearly in evidence from the get-go.

She then debunks the premise of Obamacare reducing the costs of health care delivery and then affirms that the goal of government is to not live up to its moral responsibility but instead to ration care and refuse to pay the bill. That’s like a restaurant owner advertising he can lower the cost of a cup of coffee to its patrons but doesn’t tell them the reason he can do it is that he just cut all his staff’s wages in half.

Now the tie-in which is absolutely brilliant is when Sarah subtly implies that Obama does not represent ‘the America I know and love and that divergence from the American norm in terms of “death panels” and subjectively deeming who is worthy of care imputes evil intentions or machinations to a system that Obama and his bureaucrats have sanctioned.

Michele Bachmann has clearly been energized and emboldened by being mentioned in Sarah’s Facebook post. She is now talking about slitting wrists and taking a blood oath, calling Obamacare slavery (a Palin term) and being proud of being the second most hated female Republican woman.

Ezekiel Emmanuel’s credibility is now on life support and he is now referred to as Dr. Death. He has become the omnipresent symbol of doom, even more so than Obama, of what is wrong with Obamacare and hopefully soon its death knell.
Sarah also invokes Orwell and 1984 and Big Brother which proves she does read and knows what she is talking about: a great line to appeal to independents.

And finally Sarah pay homage to Reagan. She never forgets to throw some red meat to the base. Unless Sarah screws up big time the hardcore conservatives in America will never desert Sarah.

technopeasant on September 2, 2009 at 3:42 PM