Posted on 07/16/2008 8:11:12 AM PDT by fleagle
TIM Robbins' and Susan Sarandon's mission to protect the poor and needy doesn't apply to their Greenwich Village neighborhood. The Oscar-winning liberals recently attended a Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing to oppose St. Vincent's plea to build a new, larger hospital on West 12th Street, three blocks from their home.
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Sarandon. Member of F.A.G.
(Film Actors Guild)
“Hi, I’m Susan Sarandon. Most of you know me as Tim Robbins’ mother, but I’m actually his girlfriend.”
You are correct. Hypocrite fits limousine liberals very well. These asshats are against the expansion of a “hospital”. So much for community right Susie?
Those two moonbats named their son 'Jack Henry' after the double murderer Jack Henry Abbott because they felt the murderer was a fabulous writer.
Yep.
She named one of her own kids after a murderer, Jack Henry Abbott, who was paroled from prison because of the efforts of writer Norman Mailer and Sarandon herself. Abbott subsequently murdered again.
I guess Adolph and Osama were already taken.
LOL!!!
I saw Family Guy do the same parody of Sarandon.
Surprise Surprise, Surandon and Robbins are NIMBY’s.
Anybody know if Norman Mailer ever said anything about Abbot?
why 3 blocks away? bring it closer, like next door !
Suzie feels so sorry for the little people...she can’t bare to look at them!
Mailer was enthralled by Abbott and that is how Sarandon and Robbins became enthralled by Abbott. Monkey see, monkey do.
Typical hypocrite limosine libs.
Got that right! Good for thee, but not for me.
I’ll side with Robbins and Sarandon here. As someone who lives a couple of blocks from an area where a huge hospital is growing like a cancer, obliterating neighborhoods of beautiful old homes that it regards as annoying obstacles to its never-ending expansion, I absolutely oppose this trend. We need more mega-hospitals like a hole in the head, and the people who are heading up the mega-hospital projects are most certainly not doing it out of a desire to “provide care to the indigent”. And no, I’m not impressed with orchestrated demonstrations by unionized workers — they aren’t in this to “provide care to the indigent” either.
Make no mistake about it, there is one thing and only one thing driving the trend to ever-larger hospitals, and that’s socialized medicine. Patients are processed by the hundreds like commodities, treated by overworked young resident doctors who are paid slave wages and ordered to work in whatever location the national match system sends them to. Private companies spring up to sell endless tests and procedures inside and on the immediate perimeter of the hospital, not according to what patients are most in need of, but according to what tests and procedures can be churned out at the highest reimbursement to cost ratio, from Medicare/Medicaid and from intensely regulated “private” insurers. Little details like controlling the spread of infectious agents fall by the wayside as doctors and nurses and technicians race around these huge complexes making fleeting contact with hundreds of patients of day, few of whom have any choice whatsoever as to where or how they receive their medical care. No thanks. The faster this scam collapses, the better.
ping
Unless it's for a publicity stunt photo op.
Oh yeah, I remember that now. I guess murderers are just misunderstood in her view. She also use to rant on Bush before he became president that he was the most murderous governor because of all the executions Bush did in Texas. The dumb nitwit doesn't understand that the governor of Texas has no say so in executions in Texas unless the case makes it to his desk.
Both Robbins are Sarandon are dumb, dumb, dumb...
This thread is not really about hospitals, the homeless, socialized medicine, or any important topic.
This thread was posted so a bunch of freepers could exercise their snarky sense of humor at several exceedingly easy targets.
How ‘bout doing a profile of all of those opposed to this particular expansion. Wanna bet we find people from all over the political spectrum.
Well if that's true, then these socialists should be FOR the hospital construction.
Agree with you completely, although I highly doubt Sarandon and Co. share any of the reasons you cite here.
One more reason to vote for McNasty: Sarandon has vowed to move to Canada or Italy if he’s elected.
Well, Alec Baldwin, Cher and several others vowed to leave the USA if Bush won re-election....not a one of them has begun packing their bags.....just a thought....
I do not begrudge people their success. I wouldn’t want a bunch of derelicts in my back-yard either.
Sarandon has earned enough money that she should be able to shelter herself to whatever extent she wants. John Edwards is lucrative enough that his 25,000 sq.ft. compound is entirely fine. John Travolta is successful enough that he can own and fly a 747 at his leisure. God bless American free enterprise.
A problem only arises when people like Sarandon, Edwards or Travolta deign to lecture average Americans about the exact same behavior. Edwards gives a speech on “two Americas”, and lives in a gigantic estate. John Travolta lectures me about my Suburban’s “carbon footprint”, and he flies a 747 (shut up). Sarandon talks as if I should let the homeless bunk in my garage, and then balks at anything in her backyard.
I don’t begrudge success ... God bless capitalism ... I just ask for the same opportunity they demand for themselves.
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A dream come true!
All political issues aside, one thing I will like about McCain becoming president is that the liberals will have as president an old cranky war hero man who doesn't take to jackass lazy punks.
I didn’t know that about her son’s name. You’re right. Despicable.
What makes this funny is Sarandon and Robbins are the very first to lecture us on the joys of socialized medicine and providing government funded care to everybody in infinite quanitities. Then when the infrastructure to deliver that care is constructed, they are a bunch of NIMBYs.
I am not advocating hospital expansion when I point out that this is a contradiction.
Your statement reminded me of this video of Buzz Aldrin handling a young moonbat.
What does he do?
We can stil hope...
Oh man! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
He decked that jackass a good one! Yeah, I could see McCain pulling one of those before he even had time to think about it.
Didn’t Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid name their son Jack Henry as well? Maybe not for the same reason, but who knows.
“Make no mistake about it, there is one thing and only one thing driving the trend to ever-larger hospitals, and that’s socialized medicine.”
What’s the benefit to the hospital. To build a mega hospital requires extensive borrowing. With socalized medicine the funds won’t be available to repay the loans. Where’s the gain for a hospital.
that is why this thread is posted in the first place, to mock the hypocrisy of limousine liberals
Just looked it up, and they also named their kid Jack Henry, but I don’t think for the same reason.
“Susan Harridan”
Let them eat cake... right Susan?
GS' criticisms of the mega-hospital trend are cogent, but St. Vincent's is not the stereotypical offender.
Dig a little deeper into the finances of our health care system. Things like this are always driven by specific parties who stand to make a bundle of money. The fact the hospital business itself is a guaranteed money loser is irrelevant.
For a good, but unfortunately outdated dissection of the problem, I recommend the book “The Hospital that Ate Chicago”. It’s a satirical yarn, but built on financial details that were absolute reality in the 1980s. The financial details have changed, but not the basic outline of the scam.
http://www.amazon.com/Hospital-That-Ate-Chicago-Distortions/dp/0030567416
Yes, I was asking about after the last murder. After they flashed him around NYC society, didn’t he commit another murder? Then what did Mailer say?
The Oscar-winning liberals recently attended a Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing to oppose St. Vincent's plea to build a new, larger hospital on West 12th Street, three blocks from their home.
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