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Organs From The Rich For The Poor

The article quoted below from Scrappleface is a well crafted bit of satire....but may not be THAT far from the truth.

Today on The Neal Cavuto Show (Fox News) there were two opposing views presented on the hot button issue of the day...Is it morally OK for Dutch TV to carry a show wherein a Dutch woman decides on a recipient for one of her kidneys.

The conservative protagonist said, "Sure, why not?  It's her body (and parts) to do with as she sees fit.

The liberal democrat went into orbit..."Individuals have NO RIGHT to make that decision!  The judgement should be made by a governmental agency, who could take into account the rights of the poor, who otherwise would not have access to that expensive surgery!"

I should have seen it coming.  Nevertheless, here's Scrappleface's take:

"Obama's Health Care Plan Takes Organs From The Rich To Give To The Poor.

(2007-05-30) — Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, unveiled a universal health care plan yesterday, which would boost taxes on the rich to fund care for the poor and would mandate involuntary organ donations from healthy, wealthy Americans to their ailing, impoverished counterparts.

“Taking money from the wealthy to fund care for the rest of us is no real sacrifice,” said Sen. Obama. “The rich know how to make money and they’ll just go out and get some more. In Obama’s America, if the lower middle class suffers, the upper class should feel their pain. That’s the philosophy behind my health plan, and in fact, it is the ideology upon which this great Democrat party stands.”

Mr. Obama said that during his first term in the White House he would institute a lottery system for transferring the well-maintained lungs, kidneys, livers, spleens and “other giblets,” from well-to-do citizens to the bodies of “the people who need them, and in fact deserve them, the most by virtue of their inadequate income production.”

At the same time, Congress would establish the Obama Universal Care Health Initiative Endowment to fund development of artificial, mechanical organs that the federal government would then sell at a premium to the rich as replacement parts for the natural organs they gave to the poor.

The Illinois senator said his health care proposal is “revenue neutral” because once it’s implemented, “that will be the best gear to describe the pace of U.S. economic growth.”

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(2007-05-30) — Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, unveiled a universal health care plan yesterday, which would boost taxes on the rich to fund care for the poor and would mandate involuntary organ donations from healthy, wealthy Americans to their ailing, impoverished counterparts.

“Taking money from the wealthy to fund care for the rest of us is no real sacrifice,” said Sen. Obama. “The rich know how to make money and they’ll just go out and get some more. In Obama’s America, if the lower middle class suffers, the upper class should feel their pain. That’s the philosophy behind my health plan, and in fact, it is the ideology upon which this great Democrat party stands.”

Mr. Obama said that during his first term in the White House he would institute a lottery system for transferring the well-maintained lungs, kidneys, livers, spleens and “other giblets,” from well-to-do citizens to the bodies of “the people who need them, and in fact deserve them, the most by virtue of their inadequate income production.”

At the same time, Congress would establish the Obama Universal Care Health Initiative Endowment to fund development of artificial, mechanical organs that the federal government would then sell at a premium to the rich as replacement parts for the natural organs they gave to the poor."

The Illinois senator said his health care proposal is “revenue neutral” because once it’s implemented, “that will be the best gear to describe the pace of U.S. economic growth.”

     

Apology, Schmology!

I am so tired of various whining groups demanding apologies from all and sundry over some past insult, injustice or slight. Now some group is demanding an apology from the Pope, of all people for some affront which took place hundreds of years ago!

It's reminiscent of the recent demand for an apology from Southern states to negroes who were never slaves in the first place from Southern white folks who never owned slaves...indeed most of them never had ancestors who owned slaves.

This idiotic resolution (surely not a bill) is being discussed  in the legislature in Alabama.  What a waste of time.

Apologies are OK, and even appropriate in real time given there is some occasion that decrees it...if I bump into you while walking, "Excuse me" is fine.  But if you stop people on the street apologizing because you once cut someone off while driving...well, excuse me, you should be locked up.

Political Correctness

According to my friend Kathy C., the following definition of "Political Correctness" is properly attributed to Texas A&M Students.

"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous liberal press which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Rules For Liberals

The following rules have been around for a while, but deserve repeating often.  They are as inflexible as they are absolute.  No deviation is permitted.

"18 WAYS TO BE A GOOD LIBERAL

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression, and governments create prosperity.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iran, Chinese, or North Korean communists.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach
4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but PETA activists do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

12. You have to believe the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

16. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

17. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens and transvestites should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

18. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy

MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Oops, can't do that either!!!"

Nobel Peace Prize? PUH-LEESE!