Rick Santorum: Government-Provided Health Care Is A Plot To Kill People Who Don’t Vote The Right Way
Source: Think Progress
Speaking at a Young Americans for Freedom event on Friday, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) offered an unusual assessment of what happens when the government is going to be the principal provider of health care for the country. Its actually a pretty clever system, the former presidential candidate explained, Take care of the people who can vote and people who cant vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they cant vote against you.
Santorums suggestion that elected officials will provide health care to their own voters while getting rid of the opposing partys voters followed a more banal warning that conservatives must fight programs that expand health care because they tend to be popular: When Thatcher ran for prime minister she said remember this, this is the Iron Lady she said, The British national health care system is safe in my hands. She wasnt going to take on health care, because she knew once you have people getting free health care from the government, you cant take it away from them.
Yet Santorums own example refutes his claim that national health care allows an elected leader to essentially entrench themself by selectively murdering their oppositions voters. Santorum presents no evidence that Thatcher or for that matter, any other British Prime Minister used her countrys National Health Service (NHS) to effectively euthanize people who could vote her out of office. Moreover, if such a conspiracy actually does exist, the folks at the NHS are doing a rather incompetent job of preventing the ruling party from being turned out of office. Thatchers own Tories were voted out of power in 1997. The Labour government that succeeded those Tories lost power in 2010. Polls show that, if another election were held today, incumbent Tory Prime Minister David Cameron would himself be cast out of office and Labour would regain a substantial majority in the British Parliament.
So if the NHS wants to protect Cameron from all these people planning to vote Labour, it better start making with the killing pretty soon
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/14/3066251/rick-santorum-government-provided-health-care-plot-kill-people-vote/
When fact checkers are trying to choose the lie of the year, it is amazing the huge blind spot they have for death panels, climate change, and pretty much most utterances by the extreme right.
canuckledragger
(1,660 posts)Frothy here is just expressing his own future plans.
TriplD
(176 posts)I've found that the easiest way to cut through the BS and hypocrisy and learn what really motivates Republicans is to see what they attribute those who oppose them of being motivated by. Therein you will commonly find their true motivation.
The old "health-care" system resulted in the poor and those who vote Democratic dying prematurely.
Santorum has shown us the Republicans true ulterior motive for opposing health care reform.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)...their contortions result in their climbing up their own asses.
Squinch
(50,993 posts)mbperrin
(7,672 posts)Why?
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)God!
Let's hope so!
Maybe we can eliminate "Young Americans for Freedom".
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Jesus was white!
Now that is ignorant.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Crazy but many of those lunatics actually believe it.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)"People Who Dont Vote The Right Way".
Can someone please tell him the "right way" is the "wrong way".
-p
QuestForSense
(653 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Providing universal health care to people will kill them... wow
I want someone to ask him when we should start looking at Canada for crimes against humanity.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 15, 2013, 12:17 PM - Edit history (1)
And incoherent:
The fuck? Get rid of people who can't vote so they can't vote?
(Edited to correct stupid spelling mistake)
Monk06
(7,675 posts)See now he makes sense !!!!!
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)AZ Mike
(468 posts).... he's just dreaming up his next blockbuster movie script.
rurallib
(62,441 posts)modrepub
(3,502 posts)The way he pissed away money on that project I'd think he'd be concentrating all of his energy on trying to get people into the movie theaters to watch that instead of his usual nearly useless rantings.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)is that the corporations POCKET the difference.
rocktivity
Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)that frothy mix again. Through a straw.
Leith
(7,813 posts)Santorum, even as ridiculous as he is, is a former elected Senator, former presidential candidate, and a graduate from Penn State. He is NOT some whacko radio hate show host, so why does he talk like one? Why don't Republicans in positions of authority act more responsibly?
What he said was way out of line and does not resemble reality at all.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)So much for the "universal health care then hit 'em with the death camps" strategy.
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)Is this his subliminal mind control for the week?
Voter suppression seems so friendly when the OTHER GUYS
are actually killing the voters
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Make sure the DCCC files this for 2014. Voters need this information.
BadGimp
(4,017 posts)niyad
(113,527 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Isn't that the republican game plan?
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)provided we develop defensible analyses based on facts
Oh, the rightwing wackos will always be able to churn up some angry noise by spouting crap, but every time they engineer a frothing flashmob with some wild-eyed tales, they sink an inch deeper into the swamp: they drive the moderates away, and they even start losing center-right supporters a bit at a time
The reason is simple -- crazy bullshit based on paranoid fantasy fucks up people's heads: it doesn't teach people anything about what's really happening in the world, and it doesn't teach people any useful ways of looking at the world. And the longer they do it, the more people catch on: These dickwads are just skull-fucking us
It's good to be able to show there's a chasm between us and them -- and right now the best gap to exhibit is the gap between Crazyland and Realville
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)this guy is off his rocker? I certainly hope so.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)politics, although many of us in the state have never supported him. To say that he embarrasses himself is something he will never "get." This latest convoluted criticism of the ACA makes no sense at all. His desperation to remain in the spotlight for another presidential try is the latest example of how unreasonable his thinking process is. This man has all the makings of a religious fanatic and demagogue if ever given the chance for power.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)Its actually a pretty clever system, the former presidential candidate explained, Get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they cant vote against you.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)that is being put in place by the Republican controlled state legislatures to deny extended Medicad benefits to the poor. He just has his parties mixed up. Nothing unusual for someone who is obviously mentally compromised.
jsr
(7,712 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Stupid fucking asshole.
snot
(10,530 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,152 posts)riversedge
(70,282 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)this clown is not a leader of sane, logical or reasonable people. Those who voted for this FOOL are none of the above.
underpants
(182,868 posts)(p)Rick isn't running for Senate but he still hopes to make some money running for President in 3 years... that being said - this is an example of how the GOP primaries are going to be in races where teabaggers are contesting incumbents -- they are going to try to out crazy each other.
My first reaction was who the F,,, cares what that f,,,er has to say. After a little thought I have to wonder how we have to welcome and educate the lost souls who believe this shit.
This world is so full of fear and pain with everyone looking for something to believe in.
Where have we failed as a people to spread love and hope instead of hate and fear?
on point
(2,506 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Well, I'm certainly gonna give my doctor the stink eye the next time I see him. Who knew he was a homicidal political tool? Thank you, Rick Santorum for once again explaining just how the world works. (Must be Bizarro World.)
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)and a stupid crackpot too. I hope he wins the Primary!