It’s a sad day in the world. For the 3rd or forth time this year the oldest living human has passed away. To make matters worse, Barack Obama lost a voter. Gertrude Baines was 115 years old, and as this article (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AL80900&show_article=1) explains, she had outlived everyone in her family.Besides the obvious, there are a couple of note-worthy things in the article, one being that under a government plan Mrs. Baines might have been considered a liability, having sponged off the government for so many years – at least for her social security and Medicare. At 115 years of age she’s been drawing benefits for 50 years! That’s 46 more years than the system was meant to support her – 46 years of welfare! Not that I would have changed that - I’m sure Mrs. Baines was a sweet old lady - but it makes me wonder how her life, especially her quality of life, would have been altered had Democrat authored and controlled Socialized Medicine been in play for those years. Would she have been able to afford her fried chicken, bacon and ice cream with all those “sin” and “sugar” taxes? Key to the currently proposed leftist plans is an emphasis on prevention, which would have undoubtedly excluded Mrs. Baines favorite foods. Under any Democrat plan she may have decided life wasn’t worth it a few decades ago – but not to worry, she would have received her end of life counseling 50 years ago too.
It was interesting to learn that Mrs. Baines voted for Obama “because he is for the colored.” And John McCain wasn’t? I suppose that if we can forgive her having lived on the government dole for so long we can also excuse her racism. Hopefully the next election will be about real issues and not any of the candidates’ skin color or gender. We lost our oldest human relative – that’s sad. But at least Obama has one less supporter.
Typical conservative - racist and inflamatory. You left out watermelon.
ReplyDeleteReally? Excuse me while I finish laughing at your comment. You see, you are nothing but a typical liberal. (Insert the word IDOIT) You're too lazy and intellectually bankrupt to READ the source information. I was not suggesting anything remotely racist. Had you taken the time to read the article I referenced, you would have seen this:
ReplyDelete"Nurses at Western Convalescent Hospital described Baines as a modest woman who liked to watch the 'Jerry Springer Show' and eat FRIED CHICKEN, BACON and ICE CREAM. [Emphasis mine] She refused to use dentures."
Stop looking for racism under every nook and cranny. It doesn't exist here.
Side note: You are not the first smarmy liberal to suggest this blog post was racist - the first comment could not be published because it contained many expletives.