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Political Irony › Congress goes on vacation, people die

Saw this a couple weeks ago, but still important to remember that Congress’ laziness and lying is killing Americans while they decide whether or not to fail at reforming health care.

To put this in perspective, what will happen while Congress is on vacation for three weeks?

* 143,250 people will lose their health insurance coverage.
* 53,507 people will be forced into bankruptcy because they can’t pay their medical bills.
* 1,265 will DIE because of a lack of health coverage.

Squeaking by on $300,000 – washingtonpost.com

Good God. Yet another pity story about rich people suffering in the recession.

Seriously? You can’t buy your kid the new “it” phone for back to school and that somehow compares to people who can’t make house payments or provide enough for their families to eat?

Yeah, it’s all relative, but maybe these reporters should go interview people actually suffering instead of those mildly inconvenienced by the economic downturn.

President Obama is the real target of health care protesters, not policy

Finally, some honest reporting on the town brawl asshats.

Yes, they don’t care about the issue. Most of them will benefit from a public health care plan. They just know to hate Obama because he’s black and to call everything a Democrat does “socialist”, whether it is or not.

Why? If hate wing radio isn’t telling them to do it, the GOP is doing it itself…or their pals in the corporate lobbies.

As evidenced by the following, these people only cry about their rights when they are abusing them to shut down the democratic process. This goes right along with stealing votes, owning and biasing the vote counts, and basically trying to get your way when you lose at the ballot box.

Thanks to the folks at Political Irony for the image links.