This is planned euthanasia. A way to get rid of those no longer "useful" to society

[adigal]

My very smart son firmly believes that Trumpcare is planned euthanasia of poor, unemployed whites. Those who lost their farm and factory jobs and are not getting any training, never going to have another job, those who voted for Trump to save them. They are a "burden" on the system, and the plan is to let them die naturally.
The blue states will take care of their poor, but the red states won't so ironically, they are going to kill their own voters. But not until many of them suffer terribly. Just think of all those who won't get drug treatment if this goes through.
We need a serious boycott of the oligarchs' companies. Don't buy any corporate goods.Bring the oligarchs to their knees. Show them our power. We have the brains and the money. We need to start using it. Marches are lovely, but we need to hit them where it hurts.

[NCTraveler]

1. It's about money. That's it.

There are a lot of people in this country making a considerable income. Many are making an insane amount. These taxes are real money to these people and most of them lead lives driven by the need for more. Deaths are just an unintended consequence. Collateral damage.

Edit to add: I agree completely with your call to action. Unfortunately I'm agreeing on my iPhone with my flat screen smart tv on in the background. I have started paying much closer attention to my purchases lately.

[CrispyQ]

2. This:

Many are making an insane amount. These taxes are real money to these people and most of them lead lives driven by the need for more.

Have you seen this?

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http://theweek.com/articles/703660/moved-kids-america-best-parenting-decision-ive-ever-made

snip...

While they're still kids with wants and desires, runaway consumerism and material greed has passed right by my boys.
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Many years ago I read the book, "Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic." It was eye opening & really made me aware of my own consumerism. The David Horsey cartoons, alone, make the book worth it.

[NCTraveler]

7. Read it earlier.

I think I saw it posted as an OP. Interesting read.

[Doreen]

3. It is amazing that they will be able to kill us

by the millions but it will still be against the law to commit suicide to escape from the pain they will be causing.

[loyalsister]

9. maybe that is why states won't cover cancer drugs

will happily provide what is needed for assisted suicide. Careful what you ask for.

[Doreen]

12. They have not provided it for those who should

be allowed to use it yet. It is always the Repubs that vote against it. If we were allowed to kill ourselves we take their pleasure of doing it. I however do understand your "be careful what you ask for" for it is a slippery slope.

[loyalsister]

13. They alloiwed a 14 yr old girl to use it in WI

She was not aren't terminally ill, and her mother called her unselfish. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that she will no longer be burdened with the expense and care of her daughter?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. There's no reason for them to deliberately kill off their supporters,

although that's likely to be the result. But they (and most of the rest of us) are just collateral damage. The real goal is to provide the maximum benefit to their very wealthy owners. If some people have to die, well, that's just too bad.

[KingCharlemagne]

19. Yay, capitalism! :sarcasm: - nt

[hamsterjill]

5. My problem is

Like many Democrats in a place like Texas, I'm one of the ones in the age group who will suffer most. I'm all for doing my part, but I don't think we should have to get shit upon because all of the rednecks around us don't have any scruples. I'm madder than hell.

[USALiberal]

6. Nope, they are his voters and donors n/t

[loyalsister]

10. really?

Is that a stereotype or are you just making it up?

[WinkyDink]

39. Donors?! Hahaha!

[Kleveland]

8. Where is that idiot Sarah Palin now?

Isn't this the "death panels" that she was so concerned about?

She is such a fine American.

Thank you John McCain for hoisting that demented woman on us all BTW.

[Dave Starsky]

11. "Euthanasia" means "good death".

This isn't euthanasia. It's not even murder. Let's call it what it is: genocide.

[maveric]

14. They seem to be "Thinning Out the Herd".

They don't need us anymore.

[LiberalLoner]

20. Exactly.

[RKP5637]

26. That's exactly what it is, and more should be calling it out loud to these damn deceptive

congressmen.

[pansypoo53219]

15. DAETH PANELS! call it DEATH PANEL! the senate 13 was a DEATH PANEL!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. Republicans are Mr. Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life"

"You're worth more dead than alive."

Another video with a Republican spin on Mr. Potter.

[enid602]

37. fart

Every time you hear a fart, a Republican has been raptured.

[Patterson]

18. Why would they want to kill off their own white voters?

[adigal]

21. $$$ makes them stupid. McConnell is supposed to be so smart

But I think he is just immoral.

[madinmaryland]

23. He's a hypocrit. His polio was cured when he was a child with government money.

FUCK HIM and Lyin Ryan.

[bdamomma]

24. Well if gets to this

The rich will be at the receiving end of this assault on middle and poor Americans.

What goes around comes around.

[madinmaryland]

22. To me it is reminiscent of the movies "Logans Run" and "Soylent Green".

People are only allowed to live to a certain age and then were killed because they were of no use to society.

[RKP5637]

27. Definitely!!! Those were excellent movies. n/t

[madinmaryland]

29. IT'S PEOPLE!

[RKP5637]

30. I have no doubt! Trumpcare supplied! n/t

[ck4829]

25. Healthcare in the US is more about social control than actually treating illness and injury, so

I would say your son is spot on.

[Voltaire2]

28. Not really. More like criminal negligence.

Planned extermination is quite different. The deaths will be scattered over time and space, making them less noticeable. Perhaps more perniciously, people will get really shitty insurance policies for lower rates than the quality programs under the aca they replace, but only those who get seriously sick will suffer. The pain again will be spread out.

[C_U_L8R]

31. Cull the Herders

These are an especially mentally-deficient lot of Republicans.

[bresue]

32. But yet they want to force poor unemployed to have pregnancies they cannot afford

nor want. So, the children are the ones who suffer....and then we wonder what is wrong with our society!

[procon]

33. Its not euthanasia. This is ethnic cleansing and state sponsored eugenics.

Republicans are targeting the poor because they believe that most are black. Look at all the groups that will be most heavily impacted by these cuts; the disabled, those with mental health issues, and the youngest and eldest among us. Republicans see them as unworthy, undesirable, and unimportant enough that they do not deserve to live in their brave new world.

What the Republicans are doing in blowing up the social safety net is no less than the first step in implementing ethnic cleansing and state sponsored eugenics.

[maveric]

34. Thinning out the herd.

[NCjack]

35. I believe that the Trumpsuckers will get the opportunity to vote

GOP in 2018 before being harvested.

[Stargleamer]

36. "euthanasia" isn't the right word. . .

Euthanasia means a good death, with minimal or no suffering. What they want is suffering then death. They are very much pro-suffering (until they are adversely affected in which case they might change their tune). The suffering that incurs isn't a drawback to them, but rather a highlight.

[WinkyDink]

38. Step One in Aiding the 1%: Kill all the "TAKERS."