Capitalism uses for profit 'health' care to commit genocide upon the weak and the sick.

[Union Yes]

If you are an American and are too weak, too sick, too elderly to contribute then the message from our wealthy overlords is go curl up and die.

The dark heart and soul of capitalism..
If you can't contribute, die.

Go on, call it for-profit health care. I call it genocide and I'll make no apology for it.

If 100,000 dead Americans annually isn't genocide, then what the fuck should it be called?

[boobooday]

1. For profit health care = death panel for sick and/or poor n/t

[Union Yes]

2. X100,000=Genocide.

:fistbump:

[izzybeans]

3. I'd think they'd stand to benefit from keeping the poor alive as long as possible.

There is nothing like a waiting reserve of labor to help capitalize on booms. Didn't Greenspan love surplus labor armies?

[Union Yes]

5. Humanity provides them with a seemingly endless supply of soon to be corpses.

They'll gladly sacrifice a bunch of souls for profit as long as they have that steady stream of new blood to prey upon.

Unemployment is still high enough to keep the Serfs obedient. Brownspan's plan is still intact.

:fistbump:

[blueworld]

4. But it's not personal - it's only business; isn't that the current wisdom?

After all, Big Insurance - like every other business - exists to make a profit so we can't blame them, right? :sarcasm:

[cali]

6. I'm so weary of the degradation of language for the purpose

of furthering a narrative- whether it comes from the right or the left. Not by any stretch of the imagination does the word genocide apply as you've used it. Yes, the for profit health care system sucks. Yes, it's an abomination. No, it's NOT FUCKING GENOCIDE.

[Union Yes]

7. Then what the fuck do you call 100,000 dead Americans annually?

[laughingliberal]

14. Yeah, we ran a president of our own party out over 50,000 dead in Viet Nam

but this is, somehow, less a travesty? What a bunch of go alongs we have among us, now.

[cali]

16. it's a stupid comparison

but of course it's a travesty. It is not genocide.

[cali]

17. a tragedy a preventable tragedy.

a travesty. but you spit on the graves of genocide victims when you call it genocide. it is not.

[Greyhound]

8. Genocide;

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/genocide?view=uk">genocide

/jennsid/

• noun the deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation.

The deliberate negligent homicide of 100,000+ Americans fits the definition exactly.

[Union Yes]

11. Word.

:fistbump:

[laughingliberal]

12. I think you're correct on that. Thanks. nt

[Union Yes]

9. Is it really so painful to wake up to the fact that your country commits genocide.

I am tired of how blind we have become.

Denial enables.

[laughingliberal]

13. Amazing to see what some will defend. nt

[cali]

15. look, no matter how many times you repeat it, it's still not genocide

and it has nothing to do with denial. it has to do with honesty. it has to do with words meaning something.

[laughingliberal]

10. Okay, how about a massacre of the sick and poor? nt