Comments on: The Two Faces of Hypocrisy

By: Raymond ny

Raymond ny — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:31:32 +0000

Healthcare: The Question no one has asked.

Is the Fed, State, County, Towns, Employees going to be forced on to the Public health plan????

This should save the Public and Union Budgets a ton off money, is this why they want this?

Why would they pay for private insurance if they can put it toward a public healthcare?

Wouldn’t think they could make the money go farther to help the uninsured.

What we have in this country is not enough money for all the budgets?????

They all will save a ton of money putting there employees on the public plan??????

School Districts, all Unions across the country will they be also forced to the public option too or are they going willingly?????

The irony of the whole deal is the majority of public employees and unions voted for change, (because they were told to)
And I believe if they all find out that this might be the change they voted for, the outrage would cause a full blown Revolution.

I am sure that Public and union employees think that they are safe because they are public, but in fact are the most vulnerable.

I think in the next election we will see a record change in to the parties for the better, change we really need, out with the old and in with the new.

Before the 2008 Election I told the Obamakins
If you want change there Underwear we will be all better off.

I am a small business owner and pay my insurance every month. If people are forced to go
On to the Public option when they originally were paying into private insurance, that means that
My insurance rate will probably triple because the insurance companies will not be receiving the
Revenue as they once did from the other groups (county, state, school, and town’s employees)???
And we will all be on the public option as what they want.

More control of our life is how the Dems want it us.

We are in an ObamaNation and need to have better change, help me tell Americans that this might happen to them.

My Family Infected by this.
I want to know about who will be affected????

My brother in-law is a state policeman.

My father in-law is a retired postman he is 59.

My mom worked for the county mental health she is 58.

My wife works for the school district.

My dad was a retired union worker under 60.

In my mind what I see is the Public and Union bodies putting there employees as part of the public healthcare system before anyone.

My question is, is this facts or is this about the people who don’t already have insurance.

I see my insurance bill going up, why to make up the lack of funds need to fund the private healthcare providers.

If all public bodies cut there healthcare out of there budget wouldn’t that give them more money to fund other projects?????????

Is this really what it is about??????????

By: Izzz

Izzz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:14:03 +0000

A short note:
At a number of these town meetings, the conservatives sat and waited their turn as the congressmen spoke about everything BUT health care. They were ignored, derided and discounted. (At one, the meeting was actually adjourned without them getting to express their opinions!) Only then did they, out of deep frustration, react with rudeness.
No, I won’t defend rudeness, but I will provide the context that makes it more understandable, even predictable…

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:58:13 +0000

I do see one difference in a town hall meeting and a speech. If someone is giving a speech you are there to listen, not to shout them down and disrupt it. But a town hall meeting is supposed to be about dialogue, give and take. The representatives of our government are supposed to be there to here what we think. So while shouting others down at the meeting is wrong, everyone should get their turn to speak, expressing outrage and anger in a forum where your feelings on a subject are supposed to be encouraged is within the parameters of acceptability.

By: Jersey Boy

Jersey Boy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:55 +0000

Bernie,
I would add to the list of “deeds” perpetrated by the far-left the plants they sent to infiltrate the Republican National Convention. Remember how strategically placed plants would disrupt a speech by shouting, only to be physically carried out by the security detail? I remember shaking my head and thinking that this is exactly the playbook of the German brownshirts and Russian communists. I could not believe that this was happening in America.
Now, a few years later, we here the same shouting down and name-caling from the members of congress. Democracts have not only failed to alineate themselves from the extremists — they appear to be increasingly adopting their tactics.

By: John M.DiLascio

John M.DiLascio — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:22:20 +0000

I am retired U.S. Army(24yrs) and I have a B.A.,with 1year towards a masters. As I was told as a young troop, and as I later told my troops when I was a leader, that we wear the uniform to defend the right of Americans to say whatever theyhave on their mind, good, bad, or downright stupid. I agree with Mr. Goldberg in that if you don’t agree with what the yo-yo on the podium is saying, fine, don’t agree with him. Disagreement however, does not mean that the speaker can be shouted down or insulted or otherwise interferd with if they are speaking at a public forum. I am furious when the left disrupts events by Conservative speakers. I am even more furious when Conservatives do the same thing to speakers from the left. Because they are acting like ill-mannered, barely housebroken semi-civilised barbarians does not mean that we have the right to return the favor. Dealing with the hypocricy, I’ve found, is best done one-on-one. I’ve been reimding this young Obama supporter that dissent is still patriotic even when it comes from conservative mouths. One at a time.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:23:32 +0000

The conservatives are alot tamer than the liberals have EVER been at protesting. Maybe it’s the years of the scornful treatment that the right has endured at these looney toon lefties hands(like Sarah Palin, like Christians, etc.)..

I know that I have had it and I’m not taking it anymore.

By: Username

Username — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:21:27 +0000

It is quite obvious you’re well educated, you have written books that show a clear outline from your perspective that is unfolding before us. Your satire and opinion is unique and sometimes I wonder which side you’re ultimately on. During an interview on The O’Reilly Factor you said: “Let me start out though Bill by offending half of the people watching … the ones that think that ‘anything goes’ at town hall meetings, I want people to understand: I am against the jerks who shout down speakers they disagree with, I am against people who bring guns to town hall meetings, I am against comparing Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, or his health health care policies to fascism… as several people on this network routinely do, and I am against a general philosophy which made sense when Thomas Jefferson said it- that says: ‘we have to have blood in the streets … and kill off the tyrants.’”

My question to you sir, is this:

Where are you going to be when the hammer comes down? When these ‘angry mobs’ everyone keeps talking about- really do come out and storm the streets and use their Constitutional Rights … Are you going to be with them or against them?

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:02:07 +0000

The Two Faces of Hypocrisy,
is a clear work, however I can’t agree on the idea liberals that are there with the conservatives at the town halls as you have mentioned, both against the same, both doing the same are calling each other hypocrites or that one or the other is in danger of being two-faced hypocrites. Its odd to say that people that agree are hypocrites when act the same way for a single reason ?. If liberals and conservatives feel the same way on something, and show the same reaction(s), there is a common point they are making about what may happen to them as collective Americans. I see the hypocrisy does not exists when people stand together, liberals and conservatives in this case. Those liberals and conservatives calling the alarm about the other side, are those that do not share in common the others, liberals and conservatives together, feelings or reactions, and noone is a hypocrite.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:33:36 +0000

Excellent piece. And you are right.

By: bmmg39

bmmg39 — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:22:14 +0000

I think what we’re seeing on the news is only a small part of the town halls. The media are waiting until tempers bubble over and then that’s the footage they use.

At least no one’s throwing anything. Food fights are all well and good, but they should take place among friends, not as a way to intimidate or humiliate someone.