Wow! Crowd Cheers For Uninsured Americans Dying At Tea Party Debate

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Spectators cheered the prospect of letting uninsured Americans die during Monday’s CNN Tea Party debate.

“That’s what’s freedom is all about,” Republican presidential nominee Ron Paul said when CNN’s Wolf Blizter asked who should pay when uninsured Americans encounter catastrophic illness.

“He should do whatever he wants to do,” Paul said. My advice to him is have a major medical policy.”

As Blizter continued his line of questions asking, “So congressman are you saying society should just let him die?,” members of the audience can be heard cheering “yeah,” as if they approved.

 

[Laughing Man]

Ron Paul’s Campaign Manager Died of Pneumonia, Penniless and Uninsured

At CNN's Tea Party-indulging debate on Monday, Ron Paul, a medical doctor, faced a pointed line of questioning from Wolf Blitzer regarding the case of an uninsured young man who suddenly found himself in dire need of intensive health care.

Should the state pay his bills? Paul responded, "That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to take care of everybody—"

He never quite finished that point, letting the audience's loud applause finish it for him. So Blitzer pressed on, asking if he meant that "society should just let him die," which earned a chilling round of approving hoots from the crowd. Paul would not concede that much outright, instead responding with a personal anecdote, the upshot being that in such a case, it was up to churches to care for the dying young man. So basically, yeah. He'd let him die.

As it turns out, Paul was not speaking purely in hypotheticals. Back in 2008, Kent Snyder — Paul's former campaign chairman — died of complications from pneumonia. Like the man in Blitzer's example, the 49-year-old Snyder (pictured) was relatively young and seemingly healthy* when the illness struck. He was also uninsured. When he died on June 26, 2008, two weeks after Paul withdrew his first bid for the presidency, his hospital costs amounted to $400,000. The bill was handed to Snyder's surviving mother (pictured, left), who was incapable of paying. Friends launched a website to solicit donations.

According to the Wall Street Journal's 2008 story on his death, Snyder was more than just a strategic ally: He was the only reason Paul thought he ever had a shot at the presidency in the first place.

"It was Kent more than anyone else who encouraged and pushed Ron to run for president," said Jesse Benton, a spokesman for Mr. Paul. "Ron would not have run for the presidency if it had not been for Kent. Ron was really hesitant, but Kent drove him forward."

And so, what started in February 2007 with one laptop in Snyder's Arlington, Va., apartment, quickly grew into a $35 million campaign employing 250 people. In the fourth quarter of that year, Snyder raised a stunning $19.5 million for Paul — more than any other Republican candidate had raised at the time.

After Snyder's death, Paul posted a message to the website for his Campaign for Liberty — a pre-Tea Party organization which served Paul as both presidential marketing tool and platform to promote his non-interventionist, free market ideals.

He wrote:

"Like so many in our movement, Kent sacrificed much for the cause of liberty. Kent poured every ounce of his being into our fight for freedom. He will always hold a place in my heart and in the hearts of my family."

And that, friends, is what freedom is really all about.

*The Kansas City Star quoted his sister at the time as saying that a "a pre-existing condition made the premiums too expensive." [The Political Carnival, photo via Ron Paul's Flickr]

http://gawker.com/5840024/ron-pauls-campaign-manager-died-of-pneumonia-penniless-and-uninsured

 

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Here is his complete answer to the question...



"That is what freedom is all about, taking your own risks" Ron Paul

 

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Here is his complete answer to the question...



"That is what freedom is all about, taking your own risks" Ron Paul

The issue isn't his answer it is what the Tea Party faithful cheered for.

Ron Paul will never be anything than a congressman from Texas but the Tea party is what people should be afraid of.

 

[muckraker10021]

This is who these tea baggers are, they think they got enough $$$$$ to say fuck you, I got mine, get your own. They say "Get your Government hands off my Medicare". They are the epitome of idiocy. When their cult hero Ayn Rand, their "the virtue of selfishness" demigod got sick what did she do?

Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits,
But Grabbed Social Security and Medicare When She Needed Them

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/14...l_security_and_medicare_when_she_needed_them/

Listen to tea bagger pastor Hagee telling his clueless 10% of their income, tithing flock that the US "has rewarded laziness and calls it welfare and that the poor should look to God, and if they don't want to work THEY SHOULD STARVE

 

[GET YOU HOT]

The issue isn't his answer it is what the Tea Party faithful cheered for.

Ron Paul will never be anything than a congressman from Texas but the Tea party is what people should be afraid of.

No Fear here, I have my rights and I am not afraid to exercise them...and bonded

CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS


SECTION 32.

The right of the People of the State of California to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed.

(a) No article, section or clause of this constitution nor law,
statute or rule shall infringe a lawful persons right to buy, sell,
tranfer, own, possess, manufacture, carry or use arms and/or their
ammunition or any other components necessary for their operation,
possession or carriage.

(b) Any article, section, clause, law, statue or rule in contravention
of Section 32 shall be considered null and void and without effect.

(c) It is the intent of this section to preempt all state laws and
legislation and that this section occupies the field of arms related
regulation in California

(d) The presence of arms during commission of an unlawful act does not
provide any shield or immunity by virtue of this section to any person
for the criminal or civil liability of said unlawful act.

 

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The issue isn't his answer it is what the Tea Party faithful cheered for.

Ron Paul will never be anything than a congressman from Texas but the Tea party is what people should be afraid of.

Yep. Paul had the right answer once you got through his rhetoric when he said "No."

I just don't see why people buy into Paul. He sounds good and he's got some good ideas but he's not serious about being President. He likes the attention and likes to raise money. A guy who won't even run for a state wide office can't be serious about running for national office.

 

[thoughtone]

If this isn't proof that republicans are mindless zombies I don't know what is. Remember this:

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Now they cheer death. And the sheep follow!