A Funny Catholic Girl Complains About Obama

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A Funny Catholic Girl Complains About Obama

 

Chris T. Smith

March 22, 2013

 

Regardless of what you think about Sarah Palin, she is definitely spot-on about those Obamacare "death panels" (also known as "The Independent Payment Advisory Board"). The federal government can be pretty clueless sometimes when it comes to deciding how to spend the trillions of dollars it has. And the thing is this... the government spends more money on old people than it does on anything else – and killing old people to save money would make perfect sense to a politician who thinks that "killing babies" = "providing healthcare."

 

In 2012, there were 46 million Americans who received Social Security retirement benefits, and economists forecast that number to increase an additional 40% by 2023 (with a similar increase in Medicare). In 2012, the federal government spent $1.793 trillion on Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid and interest on the national debt (50.7% of the entire federal budget). Those numbers are from the Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2013.

 

Anyway, before you know it, the federal government will probably help set up these "clinics" called "Planned Childhood" or something like that. There'll be a doctor in there who can examine grandma and grandpa to see if they fit some criteria and then just give them an overdose of pain medication as a "mercy killing." These "clinics" will probably be staffed with people who are experts at cross-selling other products and services like coffins and cemetery plots. It sounds like a profitable business model that's