RedState celebrates Thanksgiving by comparing health care reform to bombing of Pearl Harbor
November 25, 2009 2:23 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From RedState.com, accessed November 25:
Saving Freedom This Thanksgiving
68 years ago, Americans around the nation settled into a peaceful Thanksgiving weekend and celebrated with their loved ones. A week later, the nation was viciously attacked by Japan - an attack that sparked our involvement in perhaps the greatest of all wars.
This Thanksgiving holiday is different from that weekend. While we should likewise celebrate and give thanks for our innumerable blessings, this time, the American people are staring at an attack on our nation and can stop it. This attack is coming from within. The Obama/Reid/Pelosi healthcare bill - in its various forms - is an assault on the American way of life and an affront to all the generations before us who fought to preserve and protect our cherished freedoms.
Why? Because the bill will eliminate your God-given ability to care for your family according to YOUR wishes and YOUR conscience. It will insert Washington D.C., and the incompetent bureaucrats who live there, into your hospital room, your doctor's office, your insurance company, your home and ultimately, into your personal health decisions. As analyzed here, the bill is loaded with active-government terms like "shall," "tax," and "require." And, even a cursory review of the text will show how much power this bill gives Washington to interfere with your healthcare (you know, the town that brought you the TARP bailout, Katrina-relief and over $12 Trillion in debt and counting...). Qualifications, panels, reports, studies, mandatory insurance whether you want it or not, penalties, taxes, fees, mandates on coverage but restrictions on prices... and 2079 pages of non-stop assaults on your right to live free and care for your family as you see fit.
Say hello to lines, waiting rooms, priority lists and more expensive, less effective healthcare. Say goodbye to freedom
No kidding? I hear it also is loaded with words like "the" and "and" along with some commas and periods.
Get rid of the word "the, or give me death!!!
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Hmmm, I seem to remember A WAR and the rebuilding of a foreign country as well. Is that not part of that $12 trillion?
As a Master of Arts holding two degrees in the use of language--and as a lifetime scholar of its uses, often in legal and business contexts--I offer this analysis:
...uhbuhwhaaaaa?
So the American way of life is Stay healthy or go bankrupt?