At Salon.com, by Mike Madden, you will find an excellent article titled "Obama wants to kill your grandma," which deals with "Five right-wing myths about health care reform, and the facts."
But, before we get into that, we must declare it is true: that Corporate America is embossing every rational discussion as to how to heal our country with unmitigated hate; that the mainstream media, now almost wholly-owned by Corporate America, is on the front line of the increasingly vitriolic and racist attacks on President Obama; that the Republican Party has no moral core and acts consistently in unethical ways; that the right-wingers in this country are perpetrators of evil as seen in the corporate sponsorship of the so-called "tea party" anti-tax protests and the more current violent protests at political town hall meetings; that in the debate about health care reform, the right wing, scripted by their corporate masters, has consistently lied about the content and intent of the suggested reforms; that the conservative movement has no soul, is crowned with self-interest, is incapable of speaking the truth, and will bring down the country in order to regain power.
On to health care reform. There are five myths being promoted by Corporate America and its minions relative to health care reform. Actually, the word, "myth," is not strong enough. How about "bold-faced lies" or "straight-out fabrications" or "evil distortions of the truth"?
Here are the five:
1. Democrats want to kill your grandmother.
2. The government -- i.e., you -- will have to pay for abortions.
3. Obama will ban all private health insurance.
4. The government can't possibly run a healthcare program.
5. Unlike private insurance, government bureaucrats will ration care.
If someone begins to spout the above crap, you may, in good conscience, walk away because that person is a no-good, rotten son-of-a-bitch who cares nothing for the truth.
For all the details, please read Madden's article here.
1 comment:
It will not stop the lies! These people are determined to avoid legitimate debate. They want to defeat any plan unless it is what they want, yet they have not come up with a plan to present to Congress yet either.
They are beneath contempt but that is ok with far too many citizens that do not care about debate and change.
Apparently they do not want to listen to answers or questions. Shouting NO is not debating. That were the tactics of the storm troopers and the KVD. It is a tool used by dictators prior to taking over a country. It can happen here! It might be happening right now.
We just saw it on TV in Iran which stopped all legitimate debate or peaceful protests.
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