Oct

Democratic Call ‘Em Out Campaign

The most recent Democratic Party email campaign is provoking people to call out those they believe are spreading lies and mis-information. The following is an excerpt from a Democratic Party email to an American:

“As the Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner could use his important position to forge honest consensus around reforms that most Americans overwhelmingly support. Sadly, Boehner is choosing to be a leading peddler of health reform lies instead.

When Boehner repeated his claim that reform would result in a government takeover of health care, it was clear he’s been too busy trying to score political points to read the overwhelming evidence — including a post from the non-partisan FactCheck.org — debunking this claim.

And cruelly scaring seniors with lies about benefit cuts, even though his own party voted to gut Medicare? On his side of the aisle, that’s become standard operating procedure.” – “Jen O’Malley Dillon, Democrats.org” democraticparty@democrats.org

The statement below is from www.factcheck.org.

“Boehner/McCotter statement, July 23: Section 1233 of the House-drafted legislation encourages health care providers to provide their Medicare patients with counseling on “the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration” and other end of life treatments, and may place seniors in situations where they feel pressured to sign end of life directives they would not otherwise sign. This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia if enacted into law.” http://www.factcheck.org/2009/07/false-euthanasia-claims/

Congressman Boehner is correct in his statement. Factcheck.org simply made an assumption from Boehner’s statement, when Boehner’s statement is actually true. How is it true? Here’s one very human tragedy that proves Boehner’s statement. It will be dismissed by those who support government run healthcare as “just one of a few”. Or it will also be said that “people will fall through the cracks in any system”. It could also be said to be exactly what Congressman Boehner said, however, it has already happened.

A woman who is very sick calls for an ambulance. The ambulance responds and she is treated after several hours in the emergency room. She returns home, but still feels so bad, she needs more medical care. She is registered into a medical care ward, not a hospital as there is no room. While receiving care, she has been given no antibiotics for her infection, just an oxygen mask. She worsens. Her son is contacted, but he lives in another country and must fly to reach her side. He arrives late in the day on Dec. 18th 2001. He does not have much time as she is slipping away. He tells his mother he loves her and that he is just fine. Once she knows this, she can allow herself to be released from the pain her body is enduring.

Could this happen in America? Could it happen in any country considered part of “the free world”? It can and did. This woman was a British citizen who lived her whole life working hard and believing she would be cared for because she worked hard all of her life. She gave up a large portion of her income while working in England to ensure that her care would be covered when she could no longer work due to physical limitations of aging. When a government must manage the costs of healthcare, it fails because the human factor of emotion is lost in the legislation, no matter what legislation is discussed. The cost of care should never be discussed, yet this is all that Americans are hearing.

What is completely in error by the Democratic Party, the organization and not clear-thinking individuals, is their assumptions that most people are more concerned with the costs, rather than with the care being received by the individual. How did that happen in America? Are most people more concerned with the costs, or could it be that these people in Congress work and stay in a location other than where their constituents can easily reach them?

If any clear-thinking, hard-working American can understand the simple logic behind Congressman Boehners’ statement, regardless of his political party affiliation, how does an organization such as Factcheck.org have the facts so wrong? They present themselves as “a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.” http://www.factcheck.org/about/
If the only people they advocate for are voters and not the consumers they state they do this for, where is the logic behind their facts then? How does any organization that monitors factual accuracy, determine the accuracy behind their statements?
They use, and have fallen prey to circular logic. This type of reasoning uses a premise to argue the premise. Arguments based in that manner are, by very fact, blind trust. It is this very issue that is targeting the American soul and has for decades. Most Americans are aware of this illogical reasoning, yet they have not been able to state explicitly why so much of our news today simply makes no sense. It is simple. It is truly an attack on our logic, but also what we’ve called our way of life.