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Dem Congressman Compares 9/11 To Health Care Bill
RealClearPolitics ^ | September 22, 2010 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 09/22/2010 3:55:05 PM PDT by i88schwartz

"Keep in mind that on 9/11, we lost about 4,000 people and rightfully so, we mourn their deaths. We've got 45,000 people every year dying and what are we going to [do], turn our backs on them?," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said on MSNBC.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 45000; elijahcummings; harvard; healthcare; obamacare

1 posted on 09/22/2010 3:55:10 PM PDT by i88schwartz
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To: i88schwartz

Ignorance beyond description


2 posted on 09/22/2010 3:56:06 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (NO MOS-que AP: It's the "GROUND ZERO MOSQUE")
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Congressman,kindly sit down and have a cup of STFU;your time is coming.


3 posted on 09/22/2010 4:01:12 PM PDT by pistolpetestoys ("Look around you;you're not alone!" Sarah Palin 8/28/10)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

On so many levels...

You just can’t make people out to be more stupid than they reveal themselves to be these days.

1. Comparing 45,000 people and some trumped up bogus charge to the 4,000 (3,000) people killed by terrorists on 09/11, just to make a point, devalues the despicable acts by the terrorists.

2. The 45,000 people (figure) touched on above, was pulled out of somebody’s tailpipe.

3. Converting every issue to vile political insult-fest antics is so ridiculous.

4. I don’t have a four, but I was so ticked off at this numskull, I had to vent on one more number... Take that!


4 posted on 09/22/2010 4:03:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (All hail Prince Skid-mark, Barack Hussein Obama, constantly soiling himself and our nation.)
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To: i88schwartz
Communists propaganda machine at work. Almost all Democrats are communists.
5 posted on 09/22/2010 4:05:10 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: i88schwartz

Elijah...uh...


6 posted on 09/22/2010 4:06:01 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: i88schwartz
....... Mr Cummings.
7 posted on 09/22/2010 4:08:19 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: i88schwartz

Wow so with Obamacare there will be no deaths anymore at all?*sarcasm*


8 posted on 09/22/2010 4:11:20 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: i88schwartz
We've got 45,000 people every year dying and what are we going to [do], turn our backs on them?"

Yeah; dying of gang wounds, drug overdoses, and killed during a criminal act.....

We should pay for their medical care? It's bad enough these "victims" wind up in the Emergency Rooms clogging up the system (along with the court system).

9 posted on 09/22/2010 4:18:38 PM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: i88schwartz
OMG these people are unbelievably awful. Last week former gov. Tim Kaine compared the Americans of the TEA Party to the Donner Party. That was cruel and disgusting. Now this comment by Cummings...equally cruel and disgusting.

Do these people sit up all night trying to think of the most tragic events people have endured in order to reference them in the most hurtful, hateful, ignorant of ways just to advance their own importance? What has turned these people into such vomit spitting creatures? I can't imagine any decent, sober, person even attempting to say the horrid things that are coming out of the Democrat politicians' and Liberal media's mouths anymore.

10 posted on 09/22/2010 4:25:08 PM PDT by CitizenM (If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.-Ronald Re)
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To: DoughtyOne

From what I heard, the 45,000 was the number of people who died one year that did not have health insurance. Not the number of people who died because they lacked health insurance. It was two unrelated things brought together by someone who knew they could fake the logic and get the gullible.

How many people die each year that dont have gym memberships. Maybe, if they could work out, they would have lived. It is a silly argument.


11 posted on 09/22/2010 6:08:01 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: DoughtyOne

From what I heard, the 45,000 was the number of people who died one year that did not have health insurance. Not the number of people who died because they lacked health insurance. It was two unrelated things brought together by someone who knew they could fake the logic and get the gullible.

How many people die each year that dont have gym memberships. Maybe, if they could work out, they would have lived. It is a silly argument.


12 posted on 09/22/2010 6:08:10 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: i88schwartz

Health care and health insurance are not the same. Health insurance will not keep me from dying.

Obamacare will insure that many more people will die from the medical care decisions made by bureaucrats in Washington DC who have never seen me, instead of my doctor.

Everyone gets treated now if they need it. Even illegal aliens.

The people Cummings is talking to want the very best treatment, whenever they want it and they do not want to pay for it.

Obamacare is none of those things. Everyone will pay a price out of pocket or with their life.


13 posted on 09/22/2010 6:20:07 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Raider Sam

That sounds about right. It’s they way they game things.


14 posted on 09/22/2010 6:44:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (All hail Prince Skid-mark, Barack Hussein Obama, constantly soiling himself and our nation.)
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To: i88schwartz

Where in that 2000 page monstrosity does it say that death has been banned? These people are amazing! What took us so long? I mean, people have been dying for thousands of years and all we had to do to stop it was have Nancy Pelosi declare it illegal? Well there are a lot of dead Dem voters that are feeling pretty foolish right now


15 posted on 09/22/2010 9:31:54 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (There is no more Recession! It is now to be called "Economic Climate Destruction")
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To: i88schwartz

Keep in mind that this is a Black Democrat which means he is from an all Black district which means he could moon on TV and his numbers would go up.


16 posted on 09/23/2010 4:38:42 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: i88schwartz

How 4 Deaths Became 401,309

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2427136/posts

45,000 uninsured deaths?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369060/posts

...more lies from leftards.


17 posted on 09/23/2010 8:12:17 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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