Republicans plan DEATH PANELS to cut VA budget

[Blue Meany]

Some say that Alan Simpson may have accidentally leaked Republican plans to use death panels to cut aid to ailing veterans, if they are able to gain enough seats in Congress in the mid-term elections. According to unconfirmed rumors, Republican strategists think this would be more palatable than introducing them directly into the Medicare program, since veterans signed up for the military knowing they might have to die for the country. Still, one anonymous internet poster who claimed to have inside knowledge about the plan, said that if it worked at the VA, the Republicans would try the same thing with Medicare and Social Security: they would give recipients a choice of rejecting the monthly payments or dying. In fact, according to this poster, the accusations about Death Panels against Democrats were all part of a plan to get the public used to the idea, and to put them in the position of saying that the Democrats were going to do it too.

Of course, none of these rumors have been confirmed by any reliable source, but none of the Republicans allegedly involved in the plot have denied it. Sarah Palin and other Republican leaders have remained strangely silent over the issue, though John McCain is rumored to have written to the Pentagon requesting that any VA benefits he is receiving be cut off immediately. Naturally, we would take them at their word if they denied this plot, but so far they have not.

[gratuitous]

1. Alan Simpson trains his sights on the defense budget

He sees redundancies built on redundancies. He sees bloated contracts. Long term commitments to develop weapons systems suitable to fighting the Soviet Union, gone now these 20 years. He sees automatically renewed programs that exist for no discernible reason otehr than to funnel money into contractors' overstuffed pockets. He sees projections of power via the military all over the world. And then his gimlet eye lights on the greatest waste and lodestone of all that is unnecessary in the defense budget:

Greedy veterans and their petty insistence on pensions or medical care. Score!

[kcks]

2. do you

have any specifics about this plan names, dates, copies of published articles?

[unhappycamper]

3. Well, this google search -> simpson + veterans <- turns up over 2 million hits:

http://www.google.com/#q=simpson+%2B+veterans&hl=en&prmd=n&ei=3m9-TMj7BcP58Aanm_XgAw&start=10&sa=N&fp=7db4f7af4a13aa89

You should be able to find something in there. :shrug:

[Soylent Brice]

7. lol

[Blue Meany]

5. Just demonstrating how the RW gins up controversy

almost out of thin air. I thought it was obvious I was mirroring RW punditry.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Oooooo a live one.

Play play play!

[madokie]

4. sarah palin is not a republicon leader

Blue meany I question what it is you're trying to do here with this post.

[Historic NY]

6. GOP wants VA DEATH PANEL..for phony agent orange claims....spread it around.