Throw Them To The Lions

This shows a strong current in our society hard at work, where people are more heartless than their representatives, reminding me of stories of the Holy Roman Empire, and we know how that went. Even these craven bastards Paul and Perry were shocked at the reaction of the PEOPLE!

I think when times get hard maybe there is a reversion to older and more primitive values. What I'm seeing now is feudalism reborn. An aristocracy and a lower-ocracy of everybody else fighting over the crumbs. And SO MANY people support this concept, and it's not just RICH people. It's regular guys, the same guys that were pissed off in the 60s with the "welfare scum" that were soaking up all their taxes and ruining everything. And the hippies who were not working hard and wearing ties. There was that movie "Joe" where the average beer drinking guy flipped out and started shooting the hippies. If you drink enough you can get mad at anyone.

So here is the mob, just like in the Bible, and they say, "throw them to the lions!" And the politicians just look at each other and shrug. Good times.

If you're uninsured and on the brink of death, that's apparently a laughing matter to some audience members at last night's tea party Republican presidential debate.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a doctor, was asked a hypothetical question by CNN host Wolf Blitzer about how society should respond if a healthy 30-year-old man who decided against buying health insurance suddenly goes into a coma and requires intensive care for six months. Paul--a fierce limited-government advocate-- said it shouldn't be the government's responsibility. "That's what freedom is all about, taking your own risks," Paul said and was drowned out by audience applause as he added, "this whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody …"

"Are you saying that society should just let him die?" Blitzer pressed Paul. And that's when the audience got involved.

Several loud cheers of "yeah!" followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer's question.

Paul disagreed with the audience on that front. "No," he responded, noting he practiced medicine before Medicaid when churches took care of medical costs--a comment that drew wide audience applause. "We never turned anybody away from the hospital."

Paul voiced support for legalizing alternative health care and argued that the reason medical costs have skyrocketed is that individuals have stopped taking personal responsibility for their health care.

Though Paul spoke to the larger issues of health care and government-backed health insurance--both pivotal in the 2012 election--the audience's reaction has overshadowed the substance of the exchange between the candidates. And the day after the event, Texas Gov. Rick Perry offered his own criticism of the audience response.

"I was a bit taken aback by that myself," Perry told NBC News and the Miami Herald of the audience reaction after appearing at a breakfast fundraiser in Tampa Tuesday morning.

[yahoo!.com blogs]