Thursday, August 13, 2009

Hardball: Lawrence O'Donnell Exposes Clueless Town Hall Protester

An excerpt from Crooks and Liars:

[Katy]Abram went on a moronic tirade at Senator Arlen Specter's town hall meeting on Tuesday, telling him she was afraid that America was turning into Russia and that he had awakened a sleeping giant.

When asked about taxes, Katy admits that she has no idea how much money she and her husband make. When asked about Socialist programs like medicare and social security, she had this to say:

...You know, yeah, I mean, there are programs in place that the founders did not want to have here. I know there are people out there that can't afford health insurance, that can't afford a lot of different things, and, you know, with the founders, they thought and hoped that the goodness of the people would allow the people to take care of those who are doing without. And I know that may seem naive in today's, you know, world...

Obviously, this town hall and anti-healthcare reform protester is clueless. She certainly needs to understand the history of medicare and social security since both programs are gov't run and read President Obama's entire outline of the healthcare reform. Social Security has been around since 1935. If Social Security was ever eliminated, how are the baby boomers going to live and where is the money that we all pay into social security go? Ms. Abram tend to forget that we, as taxpayers, get Social Security taxes taken out of our paychecks. Where is the outcry from Abram and other wingnuts for the government to stop deducting Social Security taxes from paychecks??

Now regarding the Medicare, what Abrams is clueless on is that Medicare operates as single-payer health care system.

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