Blue Meany
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Wed Sep-01-10 10:09 AM
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Republicans plan DEATH PANELS to cut VA budget |
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Edited on Wed Sep-01-10 10:33 AM by Blue Meany
Some say that Alan Simpson may have accidentally leaked Republican plans to use death panels to cut aid to ailing veterans, if they are able to gain enough seats in Congress in the mid-term elections. According to unconfirmed rumors, Republican strategists think this would be more palatable than introducing them directly into the Medicare program, since veterans signed up for the military knowing they might have to die for the country. Still, one anonymous internet poster who claimed to have inside knowledge about the plan, said that if it worked at the VA, the Republicans would try the same thing with Medicare and Social Security: they would give recipients a choice of rejecting the monthly payments or dying. In fact, according to this poster, the accusations about Death Panels against Democrats were all part of a plan to get the public used to the idea, and to put them in the position of saying that the Democrats were going to do it too.
Of course, none of these rumors have been confirmed by any reliable source, but none of the Republicans allegedly involved in the plot have denied it. Sarah Palin and other Republican leaders have remained strangely silent over the issue, though John McCain is rumored to have written to the Pentagon requesting that any VA benefits he is receiving be cut off immediately. Naturally, we would take them at their word if they denied this plot, but so far they have not.
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Wed Sep-01-10 10:17 AM
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1. Alan Simpson trains his sights on the defense budget |
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He sees redundancies built on redundancies. He sees bloated contracts. Long term commitments to develop weapons systems suitable to fighting the Soviet Union, gone now these 20 years. He sees automatically renewed programs that exist for no discernible reason otehr than to funnel money into contractors' overstuffed pockets. He sees projections of power via the military all over the world. And then his gimlet eye lights on the greatest waste and lodestone of all that is unnecessary in the defense budget:
Greedy veterans and their petty insistence on pensions or medical care. Score!
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Wed Sep-01-10 10:22 AM
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have any specifics about this plan names, dates, copies of published articles?
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Wed Sep-01-10 10:25 AM
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3. Well, this google search -> simpson + veterans <- turns up over 2 million hits: |
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Edited on Wed Sep-01-10 10:26 AM by unhappycamper
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Wed Sep-01-10 10:54 AM
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Blue Meany
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Wed Sep-01-10 10:43 AM
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5. Just demonstrating how the RW gins up controversy |
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almost out of thin air. I thought it was obvious I was mirroring RW punditry.
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Wed Sep-01-10 10:39 AM
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4. sarah palin is not a republicon leader |
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Blue meany I question what it is you're trying to do here with this post.
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Wed Sep-01-10 10:51 AM
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6. GOP wants VA DEATH PANEL..for phony agent orange claims....spread it around. |
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Edited on Wed Sep-01-10 10:51 AM by Historic NY
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