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The emotion of Beck is real but the argument is still wrong.
In the video clip below Glenn Beck becomes very emotional when talking about his duaghter who has cerebal palsay. Beck talks about how doctors have him a grim diagnosis for his daughter and despite their predictions she went on to graduate college.
Let me first say I believe Beck's emotion is real. I am glad his daughter was able to live longer and more productively than doctors had ever imagined. My issue is not with Beck's emotion but with the logic of his argument.
Beck has basically been claiming that under health care reform his daughter would be at risk of not receiving health care services. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nowhere does the reform package ration care to people like his daughter. In fact, for many people who can not afford health care reform would actually allow them to have their daughters with similar conditions get the care they need. Beck's daughter was able to get care because of his signifciant resources. Others who face rationing from the health insurance industry are not so fortunate.
The second issue with Beck's coverage is his constant comparisions between health care reform and the Nazis. Every now and then Beck will take a step back and say "oh but wait I am not saying Obama is a Nazi" like he does in this clip. The problem is Beck then spends the next ten minutes comparing reform to some kind of Nazi policy. This is akin to me telling a girl she is pretty then telling her she is overweight for the rest of our ten minute conversation. What impression is the girl to be left with in such circumstances? In the same way while Beck claims moderation the majority of his talk is extreme and his audience is left believing "Obamacare" must and Nazi eugenics are closely related.
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Give me a Break. He (Beck) is a kook. Any business or organization associated w/ him runs a liability risk. Those who fit this description should cut their (risk) losses.
Robert Moon is spamming The Activity Pit again: twi.cc/lAlq
The Patriot Act says that once you're accused of colluding with terrorists, you then cannot prove your innocence. It then must make anyone sarcastically feel good to know that the United States government is perfect. Who can ever imagine that especially for the last eight years the government has more than proven that it makes mistakes. But the last eight years didn't just prove that the government makes mistakes. The last eight years proves that the government is actually proud of her mistakes and, by a refusal to correct the errors of the past, saying, “Let’s move forward!” is very willing to make more mistakes. Each such example proving this reminds me of even my textbooks and the documentaries I read of the fascist regimes of history that also couldn't figure out that injustice is never necessary for security, rather, in a time of crisis is when justice is ever more needed than ever before.
They were not allowed to defend or be properly represented against the charges. They could even be tortured there. All this, the North Koreans would naturally say, was for national security concerns.
Do any of these rules those journalists suffered from to one degree or another, sound familiar? Is it true that if we studied communist and Nazi security policy of history we would be able to figure out where America is headed, even with the KGB and a civilian police force over here? After all, we have been given the Patriot Act. This provision is like an even vivid looking over at North Korea and saying with awe, "I want to be just like you!" It says that injustice is the only true remedy for terrorism. Scheduled to be put into effect just as soon as a national crisis is declared, according to American law, it rebuffs all American history, says we're going forward and actually gets its credibility from a dark past.
No one, absolutely no one should jump on anyone and attack him if he compares most everything happening today with Nazi Germany or with the communists. Like it or not, we are headed that way. More to take away the scent so we don't know this, the very people directing that way are getting the habit of saying, "History will prove that what we decided to do here is right." This was said long after history already proved what they have done, especially since GW Bush, is wrong.
Just recently President Clinton had to rescue two American journalists who were jailed in North Korea. It was strange what those journalists were suffering in that country. They were in a place where they can be jailed without charge and held indefinitely. No judge can even look in at what was happening to them and comment.
B. Carter,
You think that anyone who speaks his mind, without restraint for the collective quota, is crazy and to be discounted.
What don't you understand?
This Government has failed or come up short on nearly every program they have created; Medicare, Medicaid, SS, The Community Reinvestment Act - which caused the majority of our economic recession by forcing banks to lend and write mortgages for people who clearly could not afford them and had low credit scores.
Did you know the #1 organization for refusing healthcare coverage due to illness or pre-existing conditions is Medicare. How does that even come as a surprise? When you socialize programs -- when the government runs programs -- they act on statistics and not on individual needs. It becomes a mathematical function. How would it not? Do you actually believe the Government can take care of every citizen to their individual assessment of need? Look at all of the estimates the Government furnished for the people
in order to vote in their agendas, and then look at the actual costs, most of them would floor you.
We do need healthcare reform, but the Government is ABSOLUTELY the last agency who should be in charge of it.
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