My Sister in law has lost it

[proud patriot]

She thinks we should write down for our children what it was like
before we lost our Freedom in America . She is very Sad .

I called her chicken little :shrug:

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Individuals having control over their health care = a loss of freedom to wingnuts. They would

rather the insurance companies control it for them. It's easier than having to think.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

2. have her do it

then when she finds out how little this does you can read it back to her.

[47of74]

3. I don't want GOP brand Freedom

And your SIL ought to realize that this is happening so she may as well come to peace with it.

[Xenotime]

38. Well said. She needs to stand behind this new America..

[d_b]

4. I feel for her children.

[gimama]

5. whoa.. enCourage her to write it ALL down..

& offer to proofread it..

writing can be a HEALING experience.
Or evidence! ;)

[Rage Inc.]

21. You're assuming she CAN write!

Or read!

[gimama]

32. so freaky to ME, that those afraid NOW

of "losing freedom", "distrust guvment", etc..
had NO problem with the former admin. AT ALL, EVER.
*NOW* they are "wanting our Country back"? huh?!?

Hey, YOU! Welcome to DU!:hi:

www.indiegogo.com/bush

[mrcheerful]

6. Tell here it's a little late for that as she should have started

writing that in 1979 because America was never the same after that election cycle.

[solara]

7. Tell her that most of us did that when the Bush cabal first came into power

:patriot:

[Old Codger]

8. Sad for sure

Fortunately she will never see the bad things she envisions come to fruition.. Maybe she and other of her ilk will finally get a chance to realize the truth. If not I truly feel sorry for them in their sad little self made dungeons.

[Kievan Rus]

9. I kind of get the feeling a former friend of mine probably just lost it too

[csziggy]

10. Gee - that is how I felt Dec. 12, 2000

When the US Supreme Court took away Floridians' right to control the way our votes were counted. Tell your sister in law she is ten years too late to mourn the loss of "Freedom in America."

[dmr]

18. Me too. Knots in the stomach, pacing the floor, tears in my eyes

Will never forget, will never forgive Coup 2000.

[treestar]

11. Which she probably did not say about the Iraq War or the Patriot Act!

Like most of the right wing!

[JDPriestly]

12. Your sister is exaggerating, but so are you.

We are not losing our freedom.

There will be little change in our health care insurance system.

We have a lot more work to do to lower health care costs and prevent our health care dollars from going to profits for the rich and exorbitant salaries for health care insurance company managers.

[RoadRage]

13. Ask her to show you what she wrote down before Bush gave

Haliburton Billions of her "Grandchildren's" money?

Funny how republicans are so darn concerned about our financial future NOW - now that they look like self serving pompus ASSES.

And if her kid wakes up tomorrow with some horrible disease, make sure she calls and thanks you and the democrats for ensuring that her insurance company won't jack her primium or kick her off.

[Politicalboi]

26. Don't you know the latest talking point

Bush is no longer President.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. These people will look like such fools

when the benefits of this legislation (imperfect as it is) are realized, and nobody has lost their "freedom."

A year from now they will still be able to dress up like Paul Revere and hold up misspelled signs and rant about "socialism" on street corners and nobody will take them away.

They'll still have their guns.

They'll still be able to go to church.

Their lives will be the same; maybe a little better for some who will have access to health insurance that they didn't have before.

I wonder if they'll admit that their "freedom" still exists?

[DeSwiss]

15. From the looks of a lot of their protest signs.....

...they could use the spelling practice. (j/k about your SIL!)



K&R

[HughMoran]

16. Too stupid to know that it's propaganda that's been pumped into their heads?

It isn't just the media in this country that's lazy.

[NotThisTime]

17. Reagan said that when Medicare was passed

[Dramarama]

19. Back in Clintons day

[subterranean]

20. That's almost exactly what Reagan said about Medicare 50 years ago.

[seabeyond]

22. why didnt she bother to write it all down while bush was shredding the constitution

without a wimper from people like your sister in law.

is she now standing up and speaking out against the consitutional infringements that obama has continued to carry out per bush?

only health care, huh?

[Political Heretic]

23. She's right but for the totally wrong reasons (I guess that makes her still wrong)

This has nothing to do with insurance reform.

We've been in the process of losing our freedom for the last thirty years or more - the slow and painful coup d'etat of our economic masters replacing popular representation with representatives for Wall St.

The slow and painful coup that included the slashing of taxes on the super-rich by 10, no 20, no 30, no 40, no over FIFTY PERCENT...

The slow and painful coup that watched rules be removed or lightened allowing more and more corporate bribe money to flow into political pockets...

The slow and painful coup that saw the evisceration of labor unions - the last voice and protection of working class Americans.

The slow and painful coup that saw the criminalization of society - throwing more and more people into prison than any other industrialized country on the planet...

The slow and painful coup that saw the deregulation of commerce, the fleecing of Americans, the stripping of their rights of protest (free speech zones!) of legal recourse (SC rules in favor of corporations at a 20:1 ratio).....

The slow and painful coup that saw workers wages flatline or decline for decades up until today, that saw poverty rise, with only minor half % fluctuations downward in sporadic years...

We've seen American citizens detained without trial....

We've seen the USA Patriot Act strip us of rights....

We've seen FISA laws strip us of privacy....

We've seen President's declare universal power to arrest and detain anyone simply by declaring them an "enemy" of the state....

I often try to think about to what it was like before we lost our freedom in America.... but I was too young to remember. :(

[Kali]

24. where were these morans when the patriot act passed?

enlisting? idiots

[madmax]

25. You poor thing

It's hard enough to deal with crazy but, when it's family it must really be a bummer. :hug:

[peace13]

27. I feel her pain!!!

Lets' start with the "Patriot Act' missy and work from there. We were shit on by the * thugs for eight years. If you missed it, sorry. This woman is beyond repair, trust me. Don't waste your time or breath. The fact that these hateful people have finally woken up is too bad. Can we please educate her about the illegal wars that are just now beginning to be repaid. I am not kidding....write her off!

[mzmolly]

28. As Ezra Klein said .. Republicans are running on the "freedom" ...

to remain without health care. Interesting politics. ;)

[Botany]

29. Tonight Ronald Reagan is turning in his grave

[proud2BlibKansan]

39. Good! Hope he's uncomfortable!

[FourScore]

30. There's one in every family.

[Gormy Cuss]

31. Good idea! September 12, 2001

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. Beat me to it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. When Medicare passed it was the end of the US as we knew it

you need to remind her why she really don't want that Communist program.

And I mean that.

[WVRICK13]

35. I Have A Sister-In-Law

like that but haven't spoken to her or my RW brother in over ten years except at family functions. The only reason I say hello then is so my parents aren't upset.

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. We lost our freedom to get sick and our freedom to die quickly.

My sympathy to your SIL.

[eridani]

40. Like hell we did. All we get is the freedom to buy crappy products from mass murderers

--who are under no obligation to pay any particular claim.

[Vinca]

37. Tell her she needs to start about the time Shrub decided to wiretap Americans.

[JHB]

41. I understand being polite to your sister, but...

...it's more like "dumb cluck".

[DRoseDARs]

42. I assume she's talking about when Bush stole the election in 2000 with the packed USSC's help?

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