Via
BreitbartTV:
"I think that once someone gets into the business of trying to ask about setting priorities it misses the question. Which is that it's unacceptable for the United States to be in a place whether it's Social Security recipients, or a soldier or somebody who is just owed money by the government can't be paid because we have not done our job."
Debt limit or not, the fate of many a senior is already decided with the passage of ObamaCare. Via
Instapundit:
JENNIFER RUBIN: David Brooks’ “Scary And Sloppy” Case For Health-Care Rationing. “Perhaps the point is to rationalize reductions in health-care dollars spent on the elderly, which by gosh is precisely what the Obama administration is trying to pull off with its Independent Advisory Patient Board. Limiting care, conscience free! After all, do all these old people really enjoy living to 90?” The “Death Panels” used to be a dishonest Republican talking point. Now they’re for your own good!
...Reader Mike Ramberg writes: “The best argument that I can think of Against Don Clendinen’s essay and David Brooks support of same is Dr. Steven Hawking. He can’t do any of those things, yet he seems to be a rather productive member of society!”
...“Condescending and unrealistic” — that could be Brooks’ epitaph, once he’s too far gone to enjoy life. I should note, though, that although hospice care gets good press, when my father-in-law was dying, the folks from the hospice were pretty awful. The funeral home people were much better, once he died. I was appalled.
UPDATE: From Rochelle Riley at The Detroit Free Press:
It's time for tougher penalties for crimes against elderly people. Ironically, Riley was a huge ObamaCare supporter.