Comments on: The Bill #tcot #teaparty #iamthemob http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=5604 News and views for and by working Americans Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: BCR http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=5604&cpage=1#comment-44196 BCR Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:09:36 +0000 http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=5604#comment-44196 No Allen, you are the one who needs to read the book again and let the "Big Brother" theme sink in a little more. Yes Allen, it is as bad as I believe it to be. And no Allen, this is not a fight that will end on Sunday. No Allen, you are the one who needs to read the book again and let the “Big Brother” theme sink in a little more.

Yes Allen, it is as bad as I believe it to be. And no Allen, this is not a fight that will end on Sunday.

]]> By: N.S. Allen http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=5604&cpage=1#comment-44195 N.S. Allen Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:21:44 +0000 http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=5604#comment-44195 You might need to skim back over <i>1984</i>. I'm not sure where you're getting confused over this, but, when George Orwell wrote about those "arrests," "tortures," and "executions," he actually wasn't talking about Tim Geithner sending people mail. Just saying. To try and say the same thing a little less sarcastically: You seem convinced that the world is basically going to end if this thing passes. Everyone's health care will be yanked into the grasp of the evil bureaucracy, democracy will collapse, and, before you know it, the Secretary of the Treasury will be at your front door, ready to waterboard you for Googling "tea party." And I suppose that there had to be some train of thought that led you to this conclusion. What I'm wondering, though, is at what point you'd start to think, "Eh, maybe I was wrong, this wasn't such a big deal." Supposing that the bill passes on Sunday, how many months will have to go by before you're ready to say - or at least to admit the possibility that - the stuff you were afraid of was just silly? What would have to happen, what would you have to see, to make you doubt that health care reform isn't the first step towards Obama slapping Big Brother posters up on every corner? You might need to skim back over 1984. I’m not sure where you’re getting confused over this, but, when George Orwell wrote about those “arrests,” “tortures,” and “executions,” he actually wasn’t talking about Tim Geithner sending people mail. Just saying.

To try and say the same thing a little less sarcastically: You seem convinced that the world is basically going to end if this thing passes. Everyone’s health care will be yanked into the grasp of the evil bureaucracy, democracy will collapse, and, before you know it, the Secretary of the Treasury will be at your front door, ready to waterboard you for Googling “tea party.” And I suppose that there had to be some train of thought that led you to this conclusion.

What I’m wondering, though, is at what point you’d start to think, “Eh, maybe I was wrong, this wasn’t such a big deal.” Supposing that the bill passes on Sunday, how many months will have to go by before you’re ready to say – or at least to admit the possibility that – the stuff you were afraid of was just silly? What would have to happen, what would you have to see, to make you doubt that health care reform isn’t the first step towards Obama slapping Big Brother posters up on every corner?

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