Mark Steyn nails it in this piece. He explain how Obamacare will lead to government control over your life. It is Totalitarian Neo-Feudalism, with an elite determining how long you will live
Some years ago, when I was a slip of a lad, I found myself commiserating with a distinguished American songwriter about the death of one of his colleagues. My 23-year-old girlfriend found all the condolence talk a bit of a bummer and was anxious to cut to the chase and get outta there. “Well,” she said breezily. “He had a good innings. He was 85.”
“That’s easy for you to say,” he said. “I’m 84.”
That’s where Obamacare leads: You’re 84, and it’s easy for him to say. Easy for him to say what you need — or don’t need. Relax, he assured an audience of puffball-lobbing plants in Portsmouth, N.H. . . . By the way, when I mock “puffball-lobbing plants,” obviously all such events are stage-managed, but the trick is to make it not quite so obvious. When Nixon was campaigning in ’68, Roger Ailes used to let a couple of dirty no-good long-haired peaceniks into the room so his candidate could swat ‘em down: It ginned up the crowd, made for better TV, and got the candidate pumped. “Thought it went well tonight,” he’d say. “Really socked it to those hippies.” In essence, Ailes stage-managed it to look un-stage-managed. If those who oppose Obamacare are merely a bunch of “un-American” “evil-mongers” (according to, respectively, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid), the cause would benefit from allowing the president to really sock it to a couple of them once in a while. To retreat behind a wall of overly drooling sycophants does not help Obama at this stage in the game.
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The American people are rejecting this plan,tThey don’t want the Government controlling their medicals decisions. The irony is the Left uses the argument in favor of abortion that it is the woman’s body. In this scenario, they will be in control of our bodies! I am Pro-Choice on Health-Care, it’s my body!
You’d think the dems would hire the ku klux klan or john birchers to show up.
This administration is biblically evil.
That you have the cajones to place different values upon other peoples’ lives is the essence of evil and the narcissistic cry of those who cannot value others lives at all.
That every American does not now know of the “Complete Lives” plan, project, whatever and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuels little chart shows the abject failure of the MSM to report the news. God will judge them as co-conspirators.
re: #1 by mjazz
They have done that.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/obamas_nazi_straw_man_an_old_a.html
Steyn is brilliant.
re: #4 by vagabond trader
And handsome and funny and literate…sigh…maybe that is a justification for cloning…
re: #5 by goddessoftheclassroom
He knows his stuff.
re: #5 by goddessoftheclassroom
Heh heh, he is a cutie and an accent to boot.
Notice that a certain blogger never has any Mark Steyn articles for threads any more?
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Uhm, yeah. I’m here for the Steyn swooning? This is the right place!
re: #9 by m
He and I could’ve had such beautiful children together.
re: #10 by vagabond trader
Beautiful and smart as a whip! You’d have to share him with the rest of us. It’s for the good of mankind!
re: #11 by m
lol! Will do.
Hey m, ya hear that HR 3200 might be going down? See link in thread upstairs!
Woot, needs some good news here.
First Lady Requires more than 20 Attendants
Don’t you think it is time to call, write, fax, email voicing your displeasure at the waste in government spending?
There has never been anyone in the White House at any time that has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary
only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe…Recession??, Depression??,
What, Michelle Worry?
Dr. Paul L. Williams
“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much, she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, ” Michelle Obama
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession or Great Depression. Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary. How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the sameas members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:
1. $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 – Starkey , Frances M . (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
This adds up to $1,216,200 and the salary list is not complete. Note who wrote the story not the U.S. press, but the Canadian Free Press. Kudos to them! Copyright 2009 Canada Free Press.Com