Hillary supporter
Posted on 11/17/2007 7:03:40 AM PST by tlb
“”And yes, I know what I look like. I’m not skinny, but not so fat a country would refuse me entry!””
You forgot a word:
YET
It just occurred to me.. what fun it'd be to travel back in time and see radio icon Arthur Godfrey's (and the public's) reaction when some clown tried to get him to do time in sensitivity training!
To be fair, some radio stations did stop taking personal requests for the song.
A few years later the classic song, Transfusion, was banned as too controversial -- though as I recall the lyrics it was more about the tragic consequences of bad driving than anything else. So.. we were sensitive in those days. We just didn't let the Left go crazy and use "sensitivity" as a weapon.
The people of New Zealand handed the purse strings over to their government. The government now assumes the right to dictate the standards.
Do we have any dots connecting yet?
” Expecting everyone to fit under Government health care is. Next they’ll be checking people’s DNA to see if there’s a problem.”
It is their country to decide who immigrates there and who doesn’t. If someone doesn’t like the rules, don’t live there! I say the same thing about America, you don’t like it, don’t come!
1. NZ has a right to admit who they want. If she didn't pass their health screen, she needs to work on it, if she still wants to live there.
2.Ketsu... you can go pound sand :')!
You eat fruitcake???
Eeeeeeeewwwwwww!
The innumerable closet socialists here on FR only connect what they can judge about everyone else that lives in "their" universe.
Texas, fruit cake preferably.
Corsicana, I think. Forget the bakery name.
Couldn’t she just drop off a ship near the coast and bob her way to NZ?”
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Unfortunately, she probably wouldn’t get very far before
she was used as a buoy.
Actually New Zealand has fairly restrictive immigration policies. I’m pretty sure they don’t admit people with any chronic diseases, don’t speak English and can’t support themselves. Sort of like U.S. immigration policies prior to 1964.
You got it.
She's a girl not a buoy.
“When the couple first tried to gain entry to the country they were told that they were both overweight and were a potential burden on the health care system.”
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I don’t want my tax dollars going to treating people with diseases/conditions caused by obesity.
It is treatable, get moving and stay away from the refrigerator.
Great post.
I think people must think about it this way or we will create a psychologically sick environment where economic expediency trumps human life and freedom.
Here is one of Hillary’s “health care points”. Please NOTE the title. Hillary is all about lowering costs and improving value. What about quality of care? What are “the disease and lifestyle managment programs”? What exactly does “full participation” mean exactly? She quotes medicare statistics, but everyone gets sick as they age and older people have more health problems, so what?
I support healthy life-style choices. Personally, I don’t smoke and I’m not overweight, but it bugs me when the government attempts to micromanage peoples’ lives and tries to place some kind of arbitrary value on whole groups of people. It’s only a matter of time before employer’s in this kind of atmosphere will discriminate against prospective employee’s based on health risks, in fact, it’s happening now.
Hillary Clinton Announces Agenda to Lower Health
Care Costs and Improve Value for All Americans
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/files/pdf/healthcarecosts.pdf
3. Transform Care of Today’s Chronically Ill Population to Improve Outcomes: The largest driver of health care costs in the nation is related to the small numbers of Americans who incur catastrophic expenditures, usually for the care of chronic diseases. These diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, account for 75 percent of our total national health expenditures and are the leading causes of death in the U.S.vii In fact, the 23 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who suffer from five or more chronic illnesses account for 68 percent of total spending in the Medicare program.viii A recent RAND study projected nearly $30 billion in national health expenditure savings per year after implementing disease and lifestyle management programs. Combined with prevention and health information technology, with full participation, the U.S. health system could save $147 billion alone for better care of this
vulnerable population.ix
That's about where I am, I hope you don't think that's fat.
I’ve heard of women too fat to fit into a size 15 dress and too fat to fit in an airline seat but too fat to fit into a country?
I would tell you the name but......
Apparently many have given up on the idea of keeping more of your own money and controlling more of your own destiny. Maybe it's more fun to play dictator?
Your post assumes a definition of "overweight" that is not universally accepted.
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