Paging Congressman Alan Grayson! Here is a quote that validates what you said about those EVIL Republicans:
"We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die."
Aha! So it turns out that Grayson was right when he said "Republicans want you to die quickly." Only one "little" problem here. That quote did not come from a Republican. In fact it came from the very liberal former Labor Secretary Robert Reich who is now an economics adviser for Barack Obama.
In an audio recording from a September 2007 speech to an audience at the UC Berkeley, Reich reveals what he believes an honest liberal presidential candidate would say about health care. The "truth" about health care as Reich sees it is quite shocking and as you can hear on the recording, he is definitely not kidding. Here is a transcript of the brutal truth about health care as Robert Reich sees it:
I'll actually give you a speech made up entirely, almost on the spur of the moment, of what a candidate for president would say if that candidate did not care about becoming president. In other words, this is what the truth is and a candidate will never say, but what a candidate should say if we were in the kind of democracy where citizens were honored in terms of their practice of citizenship and they were educated in terms of what the issues were and they could separate myth from reality in terms of what candidates would tell them:
"Thank you so much for coming this afternoon. I'm so glad to see you and I would like to be president. Let me tell you a few things on health care. Look, we have the only health care system in the world that is designed to avoid sick people. And that's true and what I'm going to do is that I am going try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people but that means you, particularly you young people, particularly you young healthy people...you're going to have to pay more.
"Thank you. And by the way, we're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die."
Are you taking notes, Alan Grayson? Okay, now back to Robert Reich and his uncomfortably brutal honesty about health care.
"Also I'm going to use the bargaining leverage of the federal government in terms of Medicare, Medicaid---we already have a lot of bargaining leverage---to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs. What that means, less innovation and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market which means you are probably not going to live much longer than your parents. Thank you."
And thank you, Robert Reich, for revealing the brutal truth about what liberals ultimately have in store for the public with their health care plan. Remember, this is Reich presenting what an honest liberal presidential candidate would say aloud if he weren't worried about being elected.
This recording has already gone viral in the blogosphere but so far the mainstream media is ignoring it. I guess the MSM is currently much more obsessed over what Rush Limbaugh did not say about slavery than they are over what an Obama economics adviser actually did say about health care.
An oatmeal cookie! An oatmeal cookie to the first intrepid MSM reporter to ask Robert Reich about his 2007 quote! And, please, don't let Reich try to wiggle out by claiming he was just joking. As you can hear, he was dead serious in presenting the brave new world of ObamaCare.
And all you old people awaiting the results of the health care bill in Congress..."we're going to let you die."
H/T: Verum Serum
—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.
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The media is culpable in
October 13, 2009 - 17:08 ET by kefkaThe media is culpable in what is happening to this country. We won't forget.
we won't forget....is very
October 13, 2009 - 17:28 ET by jkwtradingwe won't forget....is very very telling...wher eis Mr. Reich now AFTER Obama is elected, AFTER the same garbage health care bill is presented and he's quiet like a little boy scared in the corner to speak.
I see revolution coming..then those whom ram, down our throats will pay.
Just don't watch the media
October 13, 2009 - 17:33 ET by Mitchell BlattJust don't watch the media if you don't like it. Watch FOX instead. What is to not forget?
Good ol' Grayson... who
October 13, 2009 - 17:13 ET by gmaniac1Good ol' Grayson... who wants you to "die quickly" again? Idiots in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. However, being that Grayson is an idiot, he can't help but throw stones regardless.
Reich - and he dated Hillary before Bill did.
October 13, 2009 - 17:15 ET by Gary HallThanks, PJ. That is incredibly telling, is it not?
For the record the entire lecture can be found here. He's got a bunch of just whoppie ideas, plus he tells us about how he dated Hillary first, and introduced Bill to her - isn't that sweet?
It's the Wed. 9/26 link:
UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: PolySci 179
(;~> gary
Crickets chirping....
October 13, 2009 - 17:20 ET by superconThat audio may make to the media arm of the GOP,Fox News but it will never air on CBS or CNN. The past statements of lefties are never held against them or to be ever mentioned again as policy. At least we heard it....(sigh).
" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him...." -Sen. Jim DeMint
No no, of course there are
October 13, 2009 - 17:24 ET by ckc1227No no, of course there are no death panels, lol.
What's truly disturbing is the cheers and applause that erupted when he said we're going to let old people die.
By the way, Mr. Third Reich, what is this "we" and "give" crap? You aren't giving me anything.
rush obession will consume the news cycles
October 13, 2009 - 17:24 ET by katainkentfor as long as it takes until there is something else non newsworthy to munch on.
It seems to me that today's "news" is simply nothing more than an extension of page six tabloid crap. So happy that there are some online places that still actually report news. The type of news that doesn't get the quote marks.
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The Emperor, he has no clothes
Consume the news cycle?
October 13, 2009 - 17:30 ET by Sergeant ROCKDon't forget n-waaaaaahhhh.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
We shouldn't give anyone any
October 13, 2009 - 17:27 ET by Mitchell BlattWe shouldn't give anyone any treatment at all. We should let them buy treatment.
If Edison were to invent the light bulb today, the head- lines would read, '200,000 candle makers lose their jobs.'
The dinosaur media is the
October 13, 2009 - 17:30 ET by d1carterThe dinosaur media is the enemy within.
Reich is an advisor.
October 13, 2009 - 17:33 ET by sevenReich is an inside advisor. Obama doesn't take advise from republicans. Republicans havn't said what Grayson claims
All this is garbage because they want to pass the tax part of the law swiftly and start providing healthcare in 2013. Lots will die in 4 years with or without tax increases.
Two points:
October 13, 2009 - 17:56 ET by 10ksnookerNo death panels, we will save lots of money. Those are lies, not points.
Does anybody have one good reason why we have to trash the worlds best healthcare for some liberal wet dream ...
In Summation...
October 13, 2009 - 18:01 ET by In Excess1. It mandates coverage for all after 2012. How do they plan to
force payment? What if the fines aren't paid? I find
it (likely) unconstitutional.
2. The elderly stand no chance. Premature deaths will occur.
3. Innovation and R&D will be dead.
2. "The elderly stand no
October 13, 2009 - 18:49 ET by chessplayer2. "The elderly stand no chance. Premature deaths will occur."
Premature? They will be out and out murdered.
3. "Innovation and R&D will be dead".
True.
The elderly stand no chance
October 13, 2009 - 19:39 ET by Sergeant ROCKOf course, when that weasel Grayson made his comment about Republicans wanting people to die, he was merely 'projecting'. Liberals are always doing that - who do they think they're fooling?
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
We have to get these hideous people the hell out of power
October 13, 2009 - 19:28 ET by R D HelmThen we have to force congress to repeal everything these idiots have passed.
Should we fail, America as we know it, is toast.
-Dave
how soon?
October 13, 2009 - 19:52 ET by jon_torlinI've been saying that if we can stop this power ride in its tracks TODAY, we can recover from the damage in a few years. It'll take time, but it can be done, we did it before. We can't wait until 2010, because if this health crap thing gets into the senate and passes, a lot of stuff will take place immediately and that's going to send everything in this country into a tailspin, including unemployment. That's happening soon. What are the odds of it not passing in the Senate?
I fear that by the time we wait to see that they get voted out, the damage would be irreparable. Every day that passes is another nail in the coffin. The news about the dollar losing reserve status was bad enough. Should we go into a depression because of inflation going out of control and a loaf of bread costing $100, how the hell can anyone in the middle and lower income range survive this time around, it'll make the Depression Era of the 30s look like the Golden Age of Utopia(if there was such a possible thing and there isn't).
-Jon
I am going to all of the political functions I can
October 13, 2009 - 20:31 ET by general companyAnd ask every canidate if they will work to reverse the Obama Admin policies, I will vote and campain for those who say Yes
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
3rd Reich
October 13, 2009 - 19:56 ET by nadadhimmiHow appropriate Robert Reich told old people truthfully that "we're going to let you die". The Nazi's did the exact same thing in their form of socialism. They called the old people "useless eaters". I've got news for you; like the Nazi's, the Dems will very quickly expand that death to the mentally ill, deficient, Jews, and other "undesirables". Thus it has always been in socialist dictatorships. The old stream media are willingly participating in this crime against humanity so they will conceal Reich's barbaric comments at all costs. My God, why wasn't that little troll shouted down and ostracized for life?
Doing their duty for the Reich
October 13, 2009 - 20:00 ET by Sergeant ROCKI'm assuming that it was a friendly crowd? So, I would think that some among them would be in favor of such leftist ideas as euthanasia.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
reich
October 13, 2009 - 20:23 ET by charlietexashow many books was he standing on?
eugenics
October 14, 2009 - 04:23 ET by sudmufThe ideology behind so-called health care reform is eugenics. Holdren, Zeke Emmanuel, and Reich are adherents to it. They were all appointed by Barry therefore he must believe in this population control crap too. Now we know why the democrats don't want to do anything to fix social security. They won't have to. They plan to kill the old people. Of course that's if any of this unconstitutional garbage ever make it into law and the Marxists are able to put down the rebellion and win civil war that will follow. I refuse to particapate in government run healthcare and I don't care about the consequences. War is brewing.
How is what Reich said any
October 14, 2009 - 08:05 ET by dscottHow is what Reich said any different than what his boss said? Isn't Obama's assertion that a person uses 50% of their lifetime medical costs in the last years of life? Didn't he say something to the effect that just because we might want medical treatment doesn't mean we should get everything we want to continue living?
http://spectator.org...
President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night
that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and
ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about
to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care.
Obama and Reich, not the Republicans want granny to die quickly and QUIETLY.
BTW- It sounds much worse when it comes from Obama's mouth: http://www.youtube.c...
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.
health
October 14, 2009 - 08:33 ET by mld678Government run health care – the so-called “public option” -presents serious challenges for us. The private sector and competitive market forces are the best means tomeeting health care needs. Watchthis video from the U.S. Chamber http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/media/
October 14, 2009 - 09:36 ET by jessieHThis is the kind of people obama wants to be around him when he completely destroyes this country. No wonder we are in the crapper. Can't wait till election time. Let's kick them out now.
Reich will be a hypocrite
October 14, 2009 - 09:44 ET by VengeanceIsMineWait until his ass is hooked up to a ventilator. I doubt then he will be willing to unplug himself to save resources for the collective. The rules won't apply to the elites (e.g.Ted Kennedy)
"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt." Daniel Hannan
"The Democrats promise that
October 14, 2009 - 11:54 ET by Gary P Jackson"The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the
cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out,
government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay
the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the
elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in
which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of
Obama’s "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective
judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of
health care. Such a system is downright evil."
___Sarah Palin
Death Panels Now Open For Business In Massachusetts
http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/death-panels-now-open-for-business-in-massachusetts/
Reich likes to joke about his size (he's 4'9")....
October 14, 2009 - 12:52 ET by MDGand has always pretended to fight for the "little" guy. When he ran for governor in 2002, he said he wanted to be the Bay state's "first leprechaun governor." A real card. Yuk, yuk, yuk. Now it looks like the joke is on the elderly....maybe he'll become an Americorps volunteer and take his act to our nursing homes and hospitals to cheer up the old people.
A Gift
October 14, 2009 - 13:08 ET by slickwillie2001This statement from Reich is a gift, it needs to go right into an RNC ad.
It's unfortunate that you're
October 14, 2009 - 14:50 ET by frankmerIt's unfortunate that you're so small-minded in this way. Why is it that political discourse is always reduced to sound bites taken out of context? People like you are part of the problem, not the solution. Grow up.
The main thing to keep in
October 14, 2009 - 14:47 ET by frankmerThe main thing to keep in mind here is that this is a ficticious speech that ANY politician would give if they were to be upfront about the issues they face. It has nothign to do with democrats or republicans. It has nothing to do with any particular approach to any issue. What it does have to do with is reality, plain and simple. You can take this and use it to chop away at Grayson or whoever, but the fact is that what Reich is saying applies to any approach. No system is going to take care of everything without caveats.
Yeah, great advice
October 14, 2009 - 14:58 ET by SickofLibsWe'll all try to stay on the "high road", no matter what.
Then we can sleep with a clear conscience until the inevitable happens.
frankmer says,
October 14, 2009 - 15:29 ET by BO STINKS"See my pocket watch twirl. See my pocket watch swing. You are getting sleepy... you are getting sleepy. No, no don't walk over there! There is no man behind the curtain! Stay away from that curtain! Guards! Sturmtroopers! Get in here and take this man to the re-education camps! The Fuerher demands it!"
Perhaps you don't wish to sound condescending and ignorant, frankmer....but you sure do!
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" Sam Adams
What's the problem there
October 14, 2009 - 15:23 ET by dscottWhat's the problem there frankmer, you don't like the moral equivalence of Reich and Gray and for that matter Obama? Your attempt at dismissing the obvious is not working, and Gray's attempt at Projection has been outted. Both Obama and Reich advocate the cut off of medical procedures to the old and inferm, the very thing Gray was saying about wanting the sick to die.
And yes, both Reich's and Obama's sickening comments should be replayed over and over to make sure every American knows these two would be more than happy to pull the plug on OUR seniors in order to save money for the less deserving leaches on society.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.
Frankmer, are you REALLY
October 14, 2009 - 16:23 ET by Gary P JacksonFrankmer, are you REALLY this dumb?
Yes, this is a "fictional speech" but this is EXACTLY how these insane bastards think!
Let me put this in CONTEXT for you:
http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/obamacare-advisor-to-old-people-we%E2%80%99re-going-to-let-you-die/
I decided a long long time
October 14, 2009 - 14:55 ET by deerjerkydaveI decided a long long time ago to be weary of any politician who says, "we're going to FORCE somebody to do something."
Forcing people to behave a certain way is unamerican and I seem to hear it far more frequently from the left.