Remember this? Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/get-your-goddamn-governme_b_252326.html

Posted: August 5, 2009 06:45 PM

At the risk of bringing down the digital wrath of blog-savvy oldsters, I've noticed that a considerable number of the anti-reform Republican "hooligans," as Rachel Maddow describes them, who turn up at various town hall meetings to shout incomprehensible loud noises just happen to be senior citizens. And while the old people who turn up to protest health care reform are, to some extent, victims of the usual Republican lies and disinformation, they're still adults and therefore responsible for their opinions, their actions and their ziplock baggies filled with crazy.

Yes, they've been tricked by Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh into believing that health care reform will somehow involve golden-grilled ACORN thugs showing up at bingo with a tray of syringes filled with black liberal death juice. Yes, they've been tricked by Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs into thinking that this "halfrican American" president with his terrorist pals and Kenyan birth certificate is trying to supplant God's U.S. government with a liberal fascist homocracy.

But failing to grasp the extraordinary contradiction evident in receiving Medicare benefits while simultaneously shouting nonsense about "government-run health care" is quite simply inexcusable.

President Obama at a town hall meeting last week described a letter he received from a Medicare recipient:

"I got a letter the other day from a woman. She said, 'I don't want government-run health care. I don't want socialized medicine. And don't touch my Medicare.'"

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. WEll it sure looks like the government is touching medicare now. Good post Reccadekkadoo.

[freshwest]

2. The stupid is strong with that woman. Medicare is pretty much socialized healthcare.

The Tea Party had those signs last summer. My solution to those who said it was,' fine, return your social security check, too.'

They thought they were better and more deserving than the poor, minorities and disabled. They thought what goes around didn't come around.

Thanks a lot, morans!