August 9, 2009
Using the Cash for Clunkers program a model message for the Health Care Reform plans:
Let’s call a spade a spade. The real problem here is geezers. First they get old. Then they get sick. Then they expect to see a doctor. Give them an inch, they take a mile. The suggested plan to create a special group of thanatological shrinks (commonly called the Kevorkian Corps), while undoubtedly well intentioned, is actually an inadequate response. The health care crisis demands something more fundamental. The solution is obvious, though it may at first seem a little startling. Eliminate the last car on the train. Get the geezers off the road in the same way you are getting the clunkers off the road. Give the program a snappy title: “Grants for Gramps,” perhaps, or better yet “Gold for Geezers”.[From my favorite new blog, Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche by John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at Princeton University.]
Posted by Vanderleun at August 9, 2009 12:30 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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The People's Cube did something with this idea:
Posted by: Yehudit at August 9, 2009 9:23 PM