What would President Barack Obama's proposed takeover
of health care mean? The Onion
explains:
President Barack Obama held a nationally televised address
Tuesday to "clarify any misunderstandings" about his health
care proposal, assuring Americans that under the new bill
senior citizens-and not the federal government-will have the
right to choose how they are executed.
"Let me dispel these ridiculous rumors once and for all and set
the record straight: Under my plan, seniors are going to be
killed the way they want to be killed, end of story," said the
president, who acknowledged that "wiping out" the nation's
elderly population has always been his No. 1 priority. "If your
grandmother would rather be euthanized in the privacy of her
own home than be gutted and hanged on a high school soccer
field, she is entitled to that right."
About the Author
Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).
