Thin the Herd

The most disturbing feature, and there are many troubling aspects in the bill for universal health care (that will inevitably ration resources and hasten death-particularly of the old, infirm, chronically, or teminally afflicted) circulating in the US House of Representatives, is the so-called mandatory "end of life" counseling for senior citizens at least once every five years, more often for those seniors who are ill. I have heretofore in this forum called the counselors-a "ghoul squad" as they are assigned to tell seniors to forgo antibiotic if they have an infection as infections like Terri Schiavo's death by forced dehydration are a "peaceful" way to go. Antibiotics are four dollars for a full round dose at many pharmacies and free at Walmart-this is not about the cost incurred by government to treat infection per se but about ridding the Social Security and Medicare roles of people who paid into the system their whole lives just as they are starting to draw the benefits from their imaginary, accounting trick, nominal "lock boxes". The care they paid for, but never utilized throughout their lives, can then be shifted to Pedro and Paulina and there nine dependent children with perhaps one anchor baby popped on the US side of the Rio Grande when Obama declares his coming amnesty that will not be called amnesty but couched in terms of "normalizing undocumented workers and allowing family unification as a humanitarian measure" as the twelve million plus illegal aliens are allowed to bring in eighty or so million relatives to void the meaning of American citizenship and dilute Republican voting strength with grateful for life dole dwellers who will give credit to the party of the Democrat in chief who brought them here. That is why health care must pass first and fast so Democrats and their useful idiot Republican cover (can you say "McCain and Graham") can effectively grant broad amnesty to millions of foreigners who will make little or no effort to assimilate but who will tax the system in such an unprecedented way that the venerable but vulnerable seniors who saved the world from Hitlerism and Communism will just be too much of a burden to try to sustain, and in spite of their vast lifelong contribution, grandma and grandpa, who served in uniform and dutifully paid their taxes, will be made terminally redundant, while Oswaldo, who brought in resistant TB when he entered El Paso, will enjoy the antibiotic (that should have kept your flag waving AARP member grandparents alive- had the new national health scheme not denied them) in a cushy hospital bed he never paid for, never will pay for, but you purchased for him. When Oswaldo recovers, he can collect his checks from the new stimulus plan that Obama will pass to employ all the gravediggers to bury the last generation of Americans who knew freedom-who knows some of those robust, made healthy at grandma's expense undocumented workers may even dig the hole to bury her, and the circle is complete-you've given away citizenship, sovereignty, freedom, and life.