Ugly? Indeed. Americans? I’m not so sure. You decide whether the Tea Parties represent you and your country. Hint: would you be proud to have your mother see you acting like this? Is this the way you want your children to remember you?
I. Sept. 2009 “It’s Your Fault!”For those of you who thought that disease strikes at random, the Tea Baggers have news for you. If you develop a crippling disease such as multiple sclerosis
it is your own fault . God hates you. That is why he made you sick.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNusDI9JwoQMisinformed and angry teabagger protesters of health care reform reached a new low during a recent town hall meeting held by Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), when an angry mob heckled a woman in a wheelchair. The woman was telling her congressman of her plight, where she was afraid of losing her home because of crippling prescription medication costs.
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One woman stood to ask for help saying her disabled daughter was dropped from her blind husband’s insurance plan. One angry protester shouted, “It’s your fault!"
http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/09/03/town-hall-protesters-sink-to-new-low-heckle-woman-in-wheelchair/ II. Nov. 2009 “The Chicago Tea Party leader claimed her group did not want to be subjected to personal stories illustrating the suffering of the uninsured.”You thought sick folks without insurance are the victims? No, the
victims are those who are forced to hear about the suffering of sick folks without insurance. Why should they have to interrupt their happy little lives worrying about the plight of their less fortunate neighbors?
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl5Jo0GnX-k&feature=player_embeddedDan and Midge Hough stood to tell their story of a tragic personal loss they attribute to lack of health insurance. Their pregnant daughter-in-law, twenty-four-year old Jennifer, was uninsured and she was unable to afford proper prenatal care. When she was hospitialized with double pneumonia, it quickly developed into septic shock and other complications. Her baby died in her womb and Jenny died weeks later. She left behind her husband and two-year-old child.
As Midge Hough began to tell the audience of her loss, with tears in her eyes, several people in the audience, who were members of the Chicago Tea Party Patriots began to roll their eyes, laugh out loud and shout at her. “You can laugh at me, that’s okay. But I lost two people, and I know you think that’s funny, that’s okay."
III. March 2010 “I’ll decide when to give you money!”Tea bagger do not object to taking care of the chronically ill. They just want to decide which chronically ill people will get taken care of and which will die. You know, death panels.
Video:
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/17/disgusting-tea-party-protesters-heckle-man-with-parkinsons/At an anti health reform rally in Columbus yesterday, Tea Partiers demonstrated why they should be taken seriously as a populist movement by heckling a man who carried a sign claiming he suffers from Parkinsons.
A video shows the man sitting down in front of a group of protesters. “If you’re looking for a handout, you’re in the wrong part of town! Nothing for free here, you have to work for everything you get!” says one guy. Then, some khaki-clad dick saunters over, flings some money at the protester and smarmily says “I’ll pay for this guy. Here you go. Start a pot.” He circles back around to scream, “I’ll decide when to give you money!” Someone yells something about communism. Someone else screams, “No more handouts!!!”
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/17/disgusting-tea-party-protesters-heckle-man-with-parkinsons/ IV.Jenny Jenny is one of the people the Tea Baggers do not want to hear about. A hard working, middle aged American, she married the wrong guy. Yeah, that’s right. Everything that follows is
her own fault . The abuse started slowly, as it always does. First, her new husband persuaded her to quit her job (giving up her health insurance) and let him support him. Good old fashioned Christian values? No, he wanted her as dependent as possible, so that he would have a punching bag that could not talk back.
At first, she tried to be a good wife, the way that her pastor told her. Then, after a broken arm, she realized that she would never be "good" enough to suit her husband. She made several attempts to get away. He always found her and beat the shit out of her. Finally, after he broke her neck by throwing her down a flight of stairs, she realized that divorcing him was less risky than staying with him.
Unfortunately, he still considers her
his property, decree or no decree, and she has to change residences frequently. Because of permanent nerve injury from her broken neck, she can no longer use her right arm and she is in constant pain. Unable to work, she can barely afford to pay her rent. Her savings are almost depleted. Health care is just a dream.
When Jenny notices a left breast lump, she tells herself that it could not be cancer. Not after all that she has already suffered. But just in case, she decides to see a doctor. Her bank account is now completely depleted, so she has to save up money for the doctor’s visit, plus an extra $100 to pay for a mammogram. Unfortunately, after talking to the doctor, she discovers that she will need a
diagnostic mammogram and that test will cost more. So, she cuts back on her food budget---the only flexible part of her monthly spending--- until she has enough saved for the test. When the mammogram comes back normal, she breaths a big sigh of relief. She almost decides to cancel her follow up visit with the doctor, in order to save money to pay the light bill. But then she thinks, if that slowly enlarging breast lump is not a tumor, what is it? She sees the doctor again and is told that in rare situations cancer will not show up on a mammogram, she now she will need a biopsy---
Biopsy? How much?
$3000 ! All that money to make sure that her lump is benign? But her mammogram is normal! Where is she going to come up with $3000?
She agonizes over how she will pay for the procedure. In the meantime, the lump steadily increases in size. Finally, her aunt (on Social Security) is able to scrape together the money. The biopsy shows cancer. Around this time, Jenny wins her appeal of her Social Security disability denial, and because her disability is back dated to her neck injury, she gets her Medicare card at the same time. Good thing, too, because there is no way she could pay for a mastectomy and lymph node dissection. The good news? After a year of delays, she is finally getting medical treatment. The bad news? Her lymph nodes test positive. And there is a spot on her lung. The oncologist advises her to be upbeat, but she does a little reading and discovers that she will be lucky to live two more years, the last few months of that in agony. If the tumor had been removed when she first noticed it, it is likely that she would have survived the disease...
Good thing Tea Baggers do not read Democratic Underground. I would not want to burden them with Jenny’s suffering. And I would not want poor Jenny to have to endure their taunts and scorn, their shouts of
It’s her own damn fault! and
We don't care! 
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