Sarah Palin's Lies About Obamacare Are Based on Religion
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Once again, flailin' Palin mangles the facts. I'm not for federally subsidized healthcare or the so-called public option, either. But the way to fight well-meaning but overwrought healthcare reform is not to lie about what's on the table, nor to grossly mischaracterize its components.
That, of course, is what former Gov. Sarah Palin did online, making up a story about President Obama's nonexistent plan to create a "death panel":
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday Aug. 7, 2009 in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.
Once again, former Governor Palin is letting her religiosity cloud her thinking. She and others of the Schiavo ilk read into the Bible that the public should pay for life support even when there's not a remote possibility that the life in question is salvageable. We don't need healthcare reform to resolve that problem. All we need do is shift the cost of sustaining the living dead to the people who insist on keeping them on life support. And I don't mean to their insurance companies, I mean shifting that cost to the individuals themselves.
Watch how quickly they would vote to "pull the plug" if they had to spend decades working to pay the true costs.
I like the way Monsignor Charles Fahey, 76, a Catholic priest who chairs the board of the National Council on Aging, phrased the way he would decide on when to pull his own plug:
"We have to make decisions that are deliberative about our health care at every moment," Fahey said. "What I have said is that if I cannot say another prayer, if I cannot give or get another hug, and if I cannot have another martini—then let me go."
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Tom asks "What's wrong with religion?"
Everything is wrong with religion. Holy books were written to create a new category of beggars who are said to be "agents of a god who must have sacrifices made to him." At least ten percent of a believer's lifetime assets must be given to preachers. Sin & the soul were invented so preachers could demand MONEY to "forgive sin & save souls." Schiavo's Catholic parents tried to keep her alive to preserve the tradition of tithing. When she died, her tithe ended. Cathollc Jeb Bush wanted our civil government to enforce Canon Law that bans suicide & abortion. Both those acts end tithing. Autopsy proved Schiavo was truly brain dead. The church succeeded in postponing the time when her loving husband could restart his life. It's vital to remember that in 1973, the Supreme Court made the government stop enforcing Canon Law that bans abortion. Scripture murderously teaches believers that homosexuality is an abominable "sin," punished by excommunication and torture in Hell. Religious books expose children to tales of incest by Lot. It exposes them very early to female sexual parts..VIRGIN Mary-- exposed breasts of her nursing Jesus. Religion has communion--ugh-eating blood and flesh.
Bonnie Erbe is relying on her religious views why can't Palin?
No matter how you declare your religious views Bonnie, they certainly sway what you write as YOUR opinion. You have not been voted into your position as a writer, Sarah Palin won the popular vote among the citizen of Alaska in full light of her religious views. She did not hide them from view as you do yours.
Let's make the playing field level here, in order for you to attack someone else on their religious views, YOU too must declare your own religious views. That way, your opinions can be countered with attacks against YOU for holding certain religious views. Until you are willing to do that, You must cease and desist from all attacks based on religious views. You see, Bonnie, I've seen no issues on the ballot to change the First amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. Therefore the freedom of religion and the practice thereof shall not be abridged even under the Freedom of the press. And your "tweety bird" chirping about Sarah Palin's religious views simply makes you a Mocking bird...one that mocks others. That may be alright in K thru 12, but lady, you are no longer in that phase of your life... so grow up.
The Velcro Administration
Though I am a conservative it remains a suspicion of mine that Palin could'nt have been anything more than means by which to throw the election so that a victorious Obama could act as "mop up" .The hilarious part is that he must have realised this ,but because of colossal hubris went with it anyway.In retrospect ,VP Quayle looks like a Rhodes Scholar by comparison.
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