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YO MAMA OBAMA
You're sitting outside your Mama's room. The death panels
are coming to get her, but you've got a gun. You don't have
your own guns, because they took them away; you were stupid
enough to register them, and they knew right where to come.
But you've got Mama's gun, and she's had it since long before
the commies made us register them, and they're going to be in
for a big surprise, and they're going to have to pry it from your
cold, dead hands before they make Mama's hands that way.
There's nothing wrong with your Mama except diabetes,
high cholesterol, obesity and an enlarged heart, not to men
tion cataracts. Nothing at all that would in the least way be
helped by forcing government insurance down her throat. She's
already got Medicare and Social Security, so why would she
need big government's "help?" And why would you want some
government bureaucrat standing between you and your Mama?
But this is not about your Mama: it's about Obama. This is,
pure and simple, about taking over our lives—and our deaths.
It is teetotally just pure socialism. Because another thing about
that government insurance is that it is frightfully expensive. It
will cost more than three years' worth of war in Afghanistan,
but Obama doesn't care. He wants it to be expensive, because
that means he can raise your taxes and confiscate your wealth.
That's how they do it. They know they can't just walk in and
say, "Hey, everybody, we're socialists!" The American people
wouldn't stand for that. But this way, without ever having
to admit it, they transfer all of your wealth to themselves,
and then they say that since everybody is poor, they have to
declare a socialist govern
ment to take care of us all,
because nobody can take
care of themselves.
We've always known it
would happen this way. First
they take away your guns.
Then you're helpless to stop
them from taking away everything else. That's why they can
fool people into thinking there's something wrong with the
greatest health care system in the world. That's why they can
actually get away with saying that countries like France and
Canada have better health care systems than ours, when every
body knows ours costs 10 times more, so it's the best. Obama
likes that foreign health care because he's a foreigner.
You want to know why Americans are mad? That's it right
there. We've got an impostor who was not even born in this
country, so he wasn't even eligible to be president in the first
place. We've got this illegitimate, African-not-American presi
dent sending his goons to kill your Mama unless she accepts
government insurance, or even if she does, because govern
ment insurance requires doctors to kill old people, to hold
down costs.
That's how they're going to pay for all this socialism: by
killing your Mama to hold down costs. Is this America... or
France? Government insurance will weaken the very fiber of our
nation and endanger our fighting forces. Just think what will
happen to our military personnel when government health care
is forced on them! Think what it will mean to the strength of
our nation when our congressmen and our senators are forced
to let the government provide their health insurance. Of course
they don't want that to happen, and that's why our brave
representatives are fighting so hard to prevent Obamacare
from sapping our strength. They know that if it can happen to
Congress, no person in America is safe from having the govern
ment come in and wrench the crushing burden of medical costs
off our backs.
Our nation's strength depends upon our ability to shoulder
our own health care costs or do without. The insurance indus
try is taking care of our health needs very well, and where it
isn't, those aren't needs at all—just wants. Remember: it's bet
ter to bankrupt your family than to bankrupt your country. Ask
not what your country can do for you... etc.
So, join the fight today. Tell your Congressman, "Heckuva
job, Brounie," keeping the government out of your Mama's
hospital room and fighting for your right to hold on to Mama's
gun. She's got Medicare. She doesn't need the government. But
if you happen to be one of the 50 million Americans without
health insurance, you just might come to have a need yourself
for her gun.
They know they can’t
just walk in and say,
“Hey, everybody, we’re
socialists!”
Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com
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