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Well, we have tried to create healthcare bumperstickers, to find that slogan, and some great ones were made. But now it's time to write a few for the other side. Something that speaks the unspoken results of their advocacy. It might have some of that tough guy language too, just to add force to the message to compensate for the lack of size in the population that the fringe represents.
[Note: This idea originated with Destor's post, based on info published at The Daily Howler regarding how the US stacks up against other nations considering our healthcare costs.
Here's a few of mine to start:
30% of my premiums go to bureaucrats and CEOs. Is that a crime?!?!?
I've got a gun! How's that free speech working for you?
If we pay to treat illegals, who's going to pay the CEOs?
Medicare is mine, and y'all can't have any!
It's called the donut hole because it's fun to pay to lose coverage in your old age!
I've been paying premiums for years without ever getting sick. Of course I have coverage!
Well, just came up with one for HCR. Could not help it. :
My insurer told me I was paying for coverage and not for treatment!
Your turn!!! :-{)>
Aenta ... Love it or Leave it!
Keep Medicare Private!
Death Panels for Immigrants ... NOT Americans!
Pre-existing Conditions are God's Will - Don't Blame Me!
Chicken-fried Pork Chops and Heart Disease: Two Fundamental American Freedoms!
My Emergency Room, MY Choice!
Uninsured and Proud! Join the American Free-riders.
Jesus Had No Public Option!
September 11, 2009 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Awesome! LMAO.
September 11, 2009 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brilliant
September 11, 2009 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do chicken-fried pork chops even exist? If they don't, they should!
September 11, 2009 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well done, sir.
September 11, 2009 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
genius.
September 12, 2009 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Private Insurance - Because you can pay more.
September 11, 2009 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
The text is from "The New Colossus," a poem by Emma Lazarus:
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_quoted_give_us_your_tired_your_poor_your_hungry_your_huddled_masses
This is where we get the 'torch bearer' the Statue of Liberty slogan.
DO NOT GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES any longer, ITS THE LAW.
September 11, 2009 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
All this time I thought she was only Lady Liberty.
Mother of Exiles. I will remember that.
September 11, 2009 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
For you, DD... and for everyone else with a heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-vQwjenlJM
September 11, 2009 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that's the stuff that brings us together. Let's find a better way to make these "aliens" [what, they're not from Earth? What about neighbors?] a way to become legal citizens.
Oh wait, more bumper stickers!
Keep aliens illegal, because I oppose minimum wage!
Illegal aliens: The cheapest labor money can buy!
Illegal aliens: Employed here do we don't have to employ them over there.
September 11, 2009 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, amike. That's a favorite and it's done beautifully there.
September 11, 2009 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I sang it the first time in High School. Three cheers for Irving Berlin
September 11, 2009 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is just beautiful Professor.
WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH US PROFESSOR.
Our Southern Neighbors ARE ALL CHRISTIANS FOR CHRISSAKES!!!!!
September 11, 2009 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
In my opinion - in short, why our sons and fathers died on the beaches of Normnady.
September 11, 2009 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
A Vote Against Healthcare Reform, is a Vote Against Obama!
September 11, 2009 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stop healthcare reform, or Wall Street will need another bail out!
Public option? Your healthcare is publicly traded. Why do you hate capitalists?
September 11, 2009 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I Got Mine. Go Die.
September 11, 2009 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
ouch. but oh so funny.
September 11, 2009 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
That pretty well sums it up. But I am always struck by the number of Americans who also seem to have internalized the following sentiments:
Big Business Owns My Ass ...
They Deserve It; They're Better Than Me!
Stop Degenerate Socialists! They're Trying to Free My Undeserving Ass!
September 11, 2009 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Death Panels 'R' Us
September 11, 2009 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is better:
INSURANCE INDUSTRY: DEATH PANELS 'R' US
September 11, 2009 9:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
ta
September 12, 2009 7:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't kill Gramma.
September 11, 2009 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your Health Care is my Wealth Care.
September 11, 2009 11:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's long, but...
How's this:
If we make healthcare available to everyone then how will I be able to prove I'm more deserving than the poor?
September 11, 2009 11:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Too long for a bumper sticker, but just right for a tee shirt!
September 12, 2009 1:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Aetna, Gramps was just in the way anyhow
It’s inoperable you have our word on it
Don’t worry mass cremations are all the rage plus they’re covered!
Time to invest in organ harvesting? Call 1-800-MYORGAN
Dr Death was ahead of his time!
We die harder
Just End It!
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is.
Be patriotic take your loved ones with you. It’s good for the economy.
The quicker ender upper
End it your way
September 12, 2009 12:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
OH MY GAWD!
You have one sick and twisted sense of humor. I like that! LMAO!! Thanks for stopping by!
September 12, 2009 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sick? Twisted? Why thanks Zap (is Zap from that American Gladiator?) But look man The Prophet by Khalil Gibrain? Come on, we kept that on top of our nightstands back in the '80s 'cuz it would help us get laid. Did you really read that thing or are you playin' to the chicks? More importantly does it still work in twenty oh nine?
September 12, 2009 1:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Honestly, it's the only book I ever read more then once. I can barely watch a movie twice. I think I've read it four or five times. I think Gibrain had a prophetic voice. I also like that is barely breaks 100 pages!
Considering the way things are so easily forgotten and people are so ignorant, I think it should work in 2009. try this. Read it to her! You might get interrupted more then once. Pretty good work for a 100 page book, huh! Now that's the work of a true Prophet!
September 13, 2009 2:41 AM | Reply | Permalink