Thursday, August 13, 2009

Irony....

This article on Yahoo (which tries to gin up "populist rage"about health care reform) quotes a retiree who is fearful and angry about a government takeover of healthcare.

"They did it for prayer, they did it for abortion, and they're not going to do it for our health care," the 70-year-old nurse from Philipsburg, Pa., said Wednesday as she and her husband Robert, 74, a retired coal miner, waited in a long, snaking line for Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter's town hall meeting."

This woman and her husband are already collecting social security a HUGE government program and medicare, perscription drug benefit and all. Certainly Mrs. Snyder didn't go to that meeting to harangue poor Arlen Specter into abolishing either program and we can sure every social security check she and her husband collect are faithfully cashed.
So clearly it isn't about healthcare, it is about being angry, and these are people who have been angry about something since 1964, not much will appease them all you can do is let them vent and move on.

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