Disturbing Trends

posted by gyma

Sarah Palin, Nitwit-at-Large, has been spreading more bullshit in the heartland.

What may they feel about an elderly person who doesn’t have a whole lot of productive years left,” Palin asked an audience of about 5,000 who paid $30 each to hear her speak in an airplane hangar-like exhibition hall at the Wisconsin state fairgrounds just outside of Milwaukee. “In order to save government money, government health care has to be rationed… [so] than this elderly person that perhaps could be seen as costing taxpayers to pay for a non-productive life? Do you think our elderly will be first in line for limited health care?

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Palin did not expressly raise the prospect of government-mandated “death panels” to determine who lives or dies – the incendiary and inaccurate charge she made over the summer about Democratic health care plans—but repeatedly suggested that liberal social policies could lead to de facto euthanasia. 

Her warning was couched in repeated rhetorical questions about what might happen when laws are made by those she portrayed as having an insufficient appreciation for the sanctity of all human life.

Here's the thing about Palin and her followers who are worried about so-called 'Death Panels.' End of life issues need to be addressed yet our culture prefers to ignore them as if we are going to live in perfect health forever. There's a column in today's Denver Post about a 58-year old woman who died recently of ovarian cancer.  She had zero chance of a cure, yet the only option she had was to remove the feeding tube - in essence starving herself to death - all the while begging her caregivers to give her something to end her misery.  There's a small part of me that wishes this type of demise on Sarah Palin.

But wait...it gets better:

Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

“Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?”

She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”

Unsaid but implied was that the new Democratic White House was behind such a move to secularize the nation’s currency.

But the new coins – concerns over which apparently stemmed from an email chain letter widely circulated among conservatives – were commissioned by the Republican-led Congress in 2005 and approved by President Bush. 

Disturbing, indeed.
 

Comments

[spork_incident]

These nutters worship a poor schmuck who was nailed to some lumber and left to slowly suffocate.

It's all about the suffering to them. They get off on it.

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