This warned about Obama approach to elderly care.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

"If liberals didn't live it, it doesn't exist."

All of us need to be at peace and know the Obamasiah will take care of us and treat all equally. It's just a minor coincedence that only CONSERVATIVE car dealerships are being taken from the people who BOUGHT them and GIVEN to liberal friends of THE ONE. To be honest we should not expect union brothers to have to get inferior healthcare since they are largely responsible for delivering the wonderful supreme leader who watches over us. Soon we will be like Canada where people pick up diseases while in the hospital  that help them move on to the next life and people in their early 50's are said to have "died of old age" but they "lived a full life" or at least the fullest socialized medicine could reasonably afford to give them. After all the planet is over populated and to save the world a lot of people must be sacrificed for the good of the worthy few.

For Obama and the MSM it is not so much about the money.  It's ideological.  It is all about decimating that part of the electorate that is most likely to be conservative and not blindly accept their foolishness.

Bush was responsible for a few deaths using an army working in concert with congress.  Obama will kill millions with the extra-constitutional aide of bean counters, reporters, community organizers and union dues.

I knew Obama was a phony but now I think he is a dangerous menace to the elderly.  What a jerk.  As for the media that fail to report stuff like this, I am beyond repulsed.

Yet he is pushing economic and social policies that evidence shows doesn't increase the health of a nation...

BARRKY "THE PRINCE OF ABORTION" is in the White House ...
January 23, 2009 - 08:24 ET by Jayke

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and with the upcoming National HEALTHY Care only the healthy will get
care.  The weak and the sick will be encouraged to PLEASE DIE and save
us all some MONEY.  I predict the establishment of LUXURY DEATH CAMPS
where sick people can go and DIE HAPPY.

I wonder if Obeyme will appoint a Czar of Soylent Green?

I remember Hearing as a Child that funerals aren't really for those who have died, they are for those left behind. Funerals present an opportunity to show our respect and devotion to those who have impacted our lives in a positive way.

Devotion is a word that is generally attributed to religion, but 'Devotion' also  means something more than just 'Duty' or the 'Right' thing one must do.

Devotion to me is a sub-set of love, a way to show appreciation and reward faithfulness.

I became the 'Parent' of a little squirming puppy (9 weeks old) about twelve years ago, she was a Bichon Frise and my wife and I raised her through all of the problems associated with puppies, chewing things she shouldn't, turning over wastebaskets - she especially liked tearing paper into little pieces.

Baby Girl was a part of our family 10 years, she wasn't 'Like Family', she was family.

She was a special friend and saw her herself as our defender, always ready to defend but more suited to wagging her tail and giving 'Sugar'.

I was her life, her playmate and someone she could run to for protection when storms scared her,

At ten years of age she became very ill and I took her to the veternarian, the diagnosis was grim - she had an incurable fatal disease. I asked the Doctor if there was anything I could do?

She gave me instructions for a special diet for 'Baby Girl', that was laborious and tedious to prepare and we faithfully prepared it fresh every day.

A few months went by and Baby Girl began to know that something was really wrong with her and she became fightened and I would take her to bed with me and cuddle her until she fell asleep.

I began to carry her to her food and water and outside for her to do her business.

Then the pain began and I knew the time had come for me to show her my last act of Devotion.

We sat in the Vets office and looked out the window together at some birds in the trees, one of her favorite pasttimes - I was holding her and explaining that we must do this and that she had been a good and faithful dog and I loved her.

I held her in my arms and soothed her while the vet gave her the final act of mercy I could show Baby Girl, it was painless and she went to sleep for the last time in my arms.

I realize now, that all of the work and care that I gave Baby Girl, was more for me than her - it is a necessary fact of life that to continue living ourselves - we must know that we have done all that we could do in those final days.

Health Care rationing will affect those who are left behind more than those denied care - it will make us as cold and calculating as those who make such plans.

don't get it. a great and mighty god was elected president and he knows what is best. he knows who deserves help and who doesn't. why try to improve someone's health when there is no proof he or she will get better. besides, a old sickly person can't work and pay taxes so they are really of no use. we can sleep well at night knowing that the great one will take care of us. as a former gov. of colorado said: old people need to die and get out of the way.

 You know whats ironic? It's the old folks who off the sweat of their backs that produces this great country where a 1/2 bried can be president!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 One who can't or wont even produce evidence that he's a natral born U.S. Citizen .

jessieH     obama has lied since day one. He is going to destroy this country. I can't wait till his mouth destroys his own world. If he opens it, it's a lie.

There is one important point I believe is being overlooked by liberals.  How is it fair that a person who has continually contributed to society throughout their lifetime should be cut off from medical care because they now have become a cost center?  This would be like the military abandoning the principle of "no one is left behind."  So are we to leave behind an entire class of people because their utility is no longer evident?  What reward is there then for all the years of contributing if you are just to be cut off when it was your turn to receive the benefit as others received them?  This would be like terminating the employment of a person who worked 19 years and 11 months to deny them the twenty year pension just because some stingy manager had no intention of keeping the company promises for loyalty and service.  It's unseemly and dishonorable.

Consider this, we all pay into Medicare via a flat tax our entire working life.  We PREPAID for our medical care for twenty to thirty years and now Obama is proposing we should be denied treatment if his bureaucrats deem us too close to the end?  I would consider that "cost saving" measure as an UNconstitutional "taking" as it deprives me of the money I paid into the system to take care of me in my old age.  That money paid in by the way was not optional, I was forced by law to put it in and therefore, I have a (unhindered) right to receive the benefit of the program it purportedly paid for medical care after retirement.  

Furthermore, it is Unconsitutional to discriminate on the basis of AGE.  Denying anyone access to medical care, when they prepaid for it on any basis of age or in this case supposed remaining life expectancy is blatantly Unconstitutional (14th Amendment) and subsequent Laws.

We all know the real reason why liberals are wanting to cut off medical care to the old, they, the Congress embezzled the money for phony so called investments called vote buying schemes and now when the obligations exceed the receipts they are scrambling to meet those obligations by denying the very people who paid the receipts. The Medicare Trust Fund just like the Social Security Trust Fund has worthless IOUs and the pols are running scared that they can't find another patsy to pin this on, so as the irresponsible people they are, they blame the victims of their fraud for living too long or having the audacity of using the benefit.  It's immoral.  I say fire the worthless Congress, take their money and assets to make the system whole. 

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

this is the ONE most terrifying statement Obama admitted to yesterday and it scared the hell out of me. I am 58 and am becoming convinced that under the new program, if I go into the hospital for anything  when I'm over 65 I will not come out alive. This is planned genocide. Why are the dems so mad at the unborn and the elderly? Why do they want to kill us?

...with ALL very sincere respect and admiration for the REAL Helen Keller and for Annie Sullivan's courageous work to "free" her from her inner prison.  (...which would probably not fit the caregiver paradigm of a "recognized therapeutic treatment protocol predicted to produce a positive outcome"...  Hence, Obamacare would've left Helen still deaf, dumb, and blind, but properly dependent upon the largesse [or, small-esse!] of the compassionate and all-knowing gubmint...)

Speaking of the deafness (and associated blindness) of the MSM which leads to their inability to report anything that exists outside their insular internal world ("dumbness" in this case is not a verbal condition, rather it's more a description of the MSM's rapidly atrophying mental acuity inhibiting their ability to observe, enquire, and objectively report), I humbly offer the prognosis that it will be a temporary condition, likely to resolve itself sometime between 4 and 8 years down the road, once the clothes-less Emperor relinquishes his throne (dear God let there ONLY be two terms, max!!!).

Until then, let's pray our nation will not become an example of "the operation was success, but unfortunately the patient died.  Here's your bill..."

Our Fourth Estate is now a Fifth Column.

It seems Barry watched Logan's Run one too many times when he was a kid and came away with the wrong conclusion.

The vast majority of monies spent on health care are for the newly born and nearly dying.  While I do not agree that someone needing a hip replacement should be denied same, I do think we all to often shoot for quantity rather than quality of life.

In re newborns, well, just because you can keep them viable, all too often what we're doing is consigning them and their parents to decades of expensive misery.  As for the elderly, the suicide rate starts to ramp up around age 75.  Why?  A friend, aged 79, makes an interesting observation... "I'm bored and I've had a long and fulfilling life.  Enough is enough and I'll be outta here within a year.  Promise."  At her age she has enough prescription drugs to deck a rogue elephant.  I'll miss her, but I'll also respect her decision.  There are worse things than being dead.  Been there, done that, ain't bad ('fatal' heart attack 10 yrs ago).

We're about to see a mind-boggling rise in costs associated with cancer as the Baby Boomers hit their 70s.  The largest risk factor for cancer is age.  We wear out.  Cells get weary and go on strike.  While I don't quibble with folks who 'fight a brave battle' against cancer, my inclination is to avoid the misery ridden treatment and die before I throw up and fall down for a year.  Seen that.  No interest in going there.

Denying people care (especially if they don't want it in old age) isn't entirely a bad idea.  And 'primus nil nocere' (first, do no harm) has become an outdated idea.  Used to be that docs delivering a sickly baby would simply snuff the kid.  That does, on balance, seem kind to me.  As for the elderly, I watched my older sister (with whom I can barely remain civil) drag out our mother's miserable life.  Mom once told me that she dearly wanted to die.  My sister was incredibly selfish to make her go on.

I'm not big on tatoos, but am seriously considering having 'DNR' tatooed on my forehead.  The expense and misery that would accrue to my husband would be cruel.

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