Seriously, please be quiet and slide into the oblivion of ex-politicians. Thanks to you, there is no longer a portion of the health-care plan that would allow for money to be distributed to the elderly or dying to seek counseling in matters regarding living wills. Living wills are fundamental rights, and they’ve been around for a longer time then this current health-care debate has been going on.
Wouldn’t you like a little leverage if you were put on the machine and the decision had to be made whether or not to “pull the plug?” How about this, since you’re so adamant about this view, let’s just let someone live their life (la-de-da-de-da) and then when they are suddenly put on the machine, let’s allow their family members and friends make the heart wrenching decsion to end their lives or let them potentially suffer through the rest of it. Oh, wait, but that would be like a DEATH PANEL!!
I’ll just throw this out there, and this got me more praise on a discussion-board on the matter than I’ve ever gotten, but there has been so much spin put on this whole health-care debate that I can’t really even call it a debate so much as an exchange between liberals and conservatives of conspiracy theories that tap into their fears of life, death, and taxes. Since no one really knows if what they are saying is the truth or some “false truth” or out and out lie, it makes all of us look like fools, and Sarah Palin’s spinning on this is no exception.
Breaking it down, her Facebook statement saying there are “death panels” in the bill takes advantage of the most vulnerable people, even in our present system, and those are the people who are dying or at least staring it in the face. Politics has no limit and no sense of morality, but what Sarah Palin and other vocal conservatives (Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc.) are painting as “death panels” takes the debate to a sickening and perverted level.
I close with my initial plea: Sarah Palin, please shut up.