May 31, 2007
Obama Heath Plan
(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.”
Hat-tip: Club for Growth Posted by John Kranz at May 31, 2007 6:36 PM
Club for Growth calls this "laugh out loud satire." I call it too close for comfort.
I did a double-take on "involuntary organ donations [from rich to poor]" but I did believe it - and I wasn't laughing. I actually visualized this coming out of BO's mouth. I'm a little miffed that I was fooled by it. But what is the difference, really, between involuntarily taking pieces of someone's body or part of the prosperity that was earned with that body?
As I explained to sympathetic but misguided familyh members last night, "morality to Democrats means that nobody can prosper more than anyone else." This satire takes that ideology to its logical end.
Posted by: johngalt at June 2, 2007 10:28 AM | What do you think? [1]