Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Doublethink Alert: Health Care Cuts

First, a quick refresher:
...doublethink is the act of conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies.
Now, with that definition firmly in mind, read on.

When George W. Bush was President, cutting health care was essentially declaring war on old folks:



Now that Barack Obama is President, cutting health care is a perfectly rational, reasonable thing to do:




Kinda creepy, isn't it?

There's my two cents.

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