Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
This recording made by Reagan was distributed by the AMA across the country in 1961 to their Woman’s Auxiliary in the Operation Coffee Cup campaign. It has been making the rounds of the internet, and I found it at Hot Air this past Saturday. Wikipedia has a link to TexasBestGrok who posted photos and information he found in the album that was sent to his grandmother. He’s also put the record into mp3 format at his blog.
Reagan closed by saying this:
And if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.
Through his words, President Reagan still speaks out for us and for the country he loved.
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H/T: Hot Air, Wikipedia, TexasBestGrok
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During the Vice-Presidential debate last fall, as she quoted Reagan, Sarah Palin paraphrased his closing statement from this recording.
Paul Krugman noticed Palin’s quote and scoffed at her while not missing the chance to take a shot at Reagan in the New York Times last fall.
There’s no need to make anything up. It happens to be true.
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yesterday the A/P snuck a line their supposed “news” story about ObamaCare that said:
“The United States is the only developed country without a National Healthplan”.
They don’t count:
- Medicare
- MedicAid
- national laws making it ILLEGAL to deny service to anyone
- etc…..
But Reagan’s words ARE coming to pass!!!
thx for reminding us, INC!
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Latest Rasmussen Poll shows a steady -7 Presidential Approval Index for Obama.
Another statistic, more interesting than holding any validity, is a trial balloon for the 2012 presidential elections pitting Obama against Romney (a tie at 45%), and Palin (Obama 48% and Palin 42%).
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You’re welcome.
Ed Morrissey has this up today:
Faster Please!!!
Ed also points out:
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Good thread INC, including your Washington Post Poll post.
Obama seems to be parting the wrong waters these days, and it may be catching up with him.
When you look at the wrongheaded fiscal policies he continues to push, followed by his forays into international waters (Iran, Honduras, and now Israel over what they may or may not build in Jerusalem)it’s like he can’t seem to get anything right.
It almost seems like a personality problem with him — not knowing when to step back or step down from an unpopular, inappropriate stance.
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He’s an out and out Leftist and the U.S. is not. He’s trying to strong arm us into what he wants. I also think he’s a real narcissist. His way is the only way because his agenda is tightly wound into his sense of self. He has to keep pushing things because to do otherwise would be to admit his entire self is flawed. That’s my armchair analysis!
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This is why Obama was pushing to get his health care plan through before the summer recess.
White House putting off release of budget update
If the news of the real state of the economy had broken sooner it would have negatively impacted Obamacare even more. What a conniving president we have at the helm of power.
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YOu’ve got a real heady armchair, INC!
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It will be interesting to see the dance of the marxist adminstration and the state-run media as sober reality continues to set in and the window closes.
It will be like watching two porcupines trying to mate.
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Check out the ‘hamhanded’ folly of the marxist administration at Drudge.
That will soon be your healthcare if these people get their way.
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PG — I saw those headlines on Drudge, first thing this morning. And, as usual, find myself in disbelief at how the govt. abuses and misuses other people’s money!
Another good article looking at Obama’s shortcomings:
Obama’s policies are failing
I like the use of “blind spot” when referring to Obama’s vision.
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Jan, conniving is too mild a word.
Erick Erickson at RedState has a post up:
Let’s use this week to gather opposition to healthcare
I’d add some others:
5. Will you read the bill before voting on it?
6. The House Ways and Means Committee voted down the Heller amendment to prevent illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care. Do you support illegal aliens receiving government-subsidized health care?
7. Will you vote against the bill without an amendment clearly preventing illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care?
8. Will you wait until the administration’s annual midsummer budget update is released before voting on healthcare?
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Jan, I’ve mentioned before that a year ago I did some reading about narcissism in order to try to understand someone with whom I thankfully no longer have to interact.
The application to Obama is easy to make. I’ve also seen it done by a couple of psychologists on the web. I think Dr. Sanity is one of them.
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“Conniving” brings up an image very much like the one IP used in his avatar — long twisted mustache etc. LOL That’s why I used it!
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“Dr Sanity,”…I just love your sources, INC.
But, yes, I agree with you on the diagnosis of narcissism and how it befits out leader. Although, a touch of narcissism is a common trait among people in the limelight. In Obama’s case, though, he seems to be ruled by it, as he shuts out a commoner called, “common sense.”
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Jan, I get around!! The curious elephant’s child, you know!
She’s done at least two. Here’s one from April:
NARCISSISM WITHOUT BOUNDS
She also quotes Krauthammer, who is a psychiatrist, and an article that Byron York wrote.
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Another thought —> Just like the MSM made him, I think it will also be the cause of his demise.
All I am hearing and reading is “negative” Obama news — how his humbers are slipping, with a listing of all the areas of disagreement between him and John Q Public.
People, aka sheeple, form their ideas/impressions by what the MSM says. So, ideas will take root from these MSM seeds of discontent, and voila, you will soon have an Obama Stink Plant!
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The media and reality will hit.
We need enough people to wake up this week!
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Ohhhhhhhh this budget release makes me so mad. Conniving is right.
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Please note–all members of Congress and White House staff, and their families, are completely exempt from socialized medicine. That is specifically written into the hellcare bill.
This is precisely the same as state-run education, where the self-anointed liberal elites can opt out. And we will get precisely the same results–only this time it will be much worse since it is your health and your life.
There is so much irony here–the exact people who voted for the marxist (the elderly, the poor and disabled, middle-class soccer moms) are going to be the ones getting screwed.
Let’s state it plainly–the marxist and his merry men will determine if elderly or disabled individuals will be able to receive the health care they need. If you know anything about abortion, you know how that is going to turn out.
I hope people are waking up right now, before it is too late.
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Note that Rush said today that all this talk about Blue Dog Dems blocking the bill and saving the day is so much bull, and it probably planted propaganda. Rahm’s thumbbreakers will get all the Dems in line; only those not needed will be allowed to symbolically vote against to ‘maintain political viability’ as Bubba used to say.
The Senate may be another story, but it is primarily we as the American people that have to do this by applying unbearable pressure on Congress. Otherwise it really is all over.
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Justmary: “Ohhhhhhhh this budget release makes me so mad.”
The Force is strong with this one…she is resisting our Jedi mind-trick! hmmm….
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The last,best hope of mankind is on the line right now.
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Indeed, PG…indeed!
My crystal ball is in the shop (again!), but this is an EASY prediction:
If we DO manage to forestall (i.e. kill) the ObamaCare plan until after the August recess, look for the Dems to trot out how the EVIL Republicans don’t WANT you to be healthy!!
the Dems will turn their defeat into a slap at all of us.
Guaranteed!
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Section 1233 of H.R. 3200 “Advanced Care Planning Consultation” -
requires senior citizens to meet at least every 5 years with a doctor or nurse practitioner to discuss dying with dignity.
I just read the whole section…it is mind numbing in its legalese…but that is EXACTLY what it requires!
Scared yet?? If not…why not?
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Justrand,
A diary at RedState “Number 9, Number 9” mentions that Rahm’s brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, had input on this bill.
How can those who are Jewish be so pro-death?
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The main point of that diary is this reminder:
The Dems aka Scaremongers have been doing this for years.
Somewhere I have also seen a Dem/Obama operative suggest ways to exaggerate the situation to get health care to pass. I can’t remember where. If anyone has seen this, please post it. Thanks.
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Found it–only it was about cap and tax. It was in RedState Redhot in which an interview Conor Clarke did with Thomas Schelling had this gem:
Find Ways To Exaggerate?! How About Admitting The Truth?
This is the talk of gangsters and dictators.