Who will pay if socialized healthcare comes? We all will
News, Political ·Sunday May 31, 2009 @ 23:35 EDT (link)
On Saturday we went to Westlake center in Seattle (4th and Pine) to protest a socialist healthcare rally (the rally was at the park, and they had the stage, since they had the permit; we gathered across the street). They were marching, and we met them, and we were louder, and possibly even more numerous, which is surprising since most of our group works for a living (so has less free time on weekends) and we were on the side that wasn't trying to get free stuff.
(It must take a lot of gall to gather together to beg the government to use its police power to steal from the productive members of society and force doctors and nurses and other providers to give you something for which you have not worked and to which you have no right. What utter scum; as if we don't pay enough taxes to give them "free" things already. (Half of them probably should have been deported, anyway.) When we responded to their "Healthcare for all" chant with "Who will pay?", they knew it would be the working people; several of them even pointed in our direction to acknowledge the fact.)
We the good guys, protesting socialized medicine, held up our signs boldly against the looters, those signs including:
- Stop Socialized Medicine
- Obama Thinks it is OK to Kill Babies—Who is Next? Old Folks? Then You?
- Single Pay? No Way! Now single malt… that makes sense!
- Be Careful What You Wish For… I Choose Freedom
- Free Markets (that was ours)
- Don't Tread On Me (Gadsden flag)
- You Don't Trust Private Doctors To Keep Costs Down, But You Trust Politicians?
Are You Kidding?
Who Has the Worst Reputation for Wasting Money?
- Socialized Healthcare is Rationed Pain and Death
(The sign with the Bible and cross—a somewhat abbreviated "two roads and two destinies" sign—not with us but taking this opportunity to get out the Good News, included the following: God Has Put Eternity in their Hearts, Christ Died for Our Sins.)
Our little group—Honey, John, Lori; random Israeli flag guy (he just walked around; he carried an American flag later on), and the police that patrolled the area, stood by the barricades, and kept the groups separate (and endured the boredom of nothing happening.
The barricades; we were in an enclosed area—I once was asked by a police officer at the entrance if I was with the group inside, probably since I'd crossed the road from the pro-socialized medicine side after taking pictures; they didn't want the sides to mix.
On Sunday evening we decided to walk to the local Safeway (candy run!); it's a little over two miles, about 5 minutes by car, and 40-50 minutes walking… more than we expected. It got dark as we went back, so we went through town to avoid the blind unlit curves of Big Rock Road.
