The anxiety about Obama's communist marxist socialist health-care reform is getting out of hand.
You really couldn't make this up if you tried:
(via Krugman)
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C., July 27 -
J.B. Barker, 85, a retired truck driver, sat in a bed [at the Lexington Medical Center] recovering from heart and lung congestion problems. Lunching on pepperoni pizza and Pepsi with his wife, Ellen, sitting at his side, Barker said that he does not want Washington meddling with his medical care and that he doubts Congress can craft a better system:
"What we have is about as good as we can do."
and
At a recent town-hall meeting in suburban Simpsonville, a man stood up and told Rep. Robert Inglis (R-S.C.) to "keep your government hands off my Medicare."
"I had to politely explain that, 'Actually, sir, your health care is being provided by the government,' " Inglis recalled. "But he wasn't having any of it."
Keep your government hands off my Medicare!!
Hey, all you retired folks - be very very afraid of socialized medicine!!
Ya think these people are getting their public affairs information exclusively from FOX?