Dutch Outraged Over Santorum's Euthanasia Claim

[yeats]

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[hazel_belle]

No one likes Santorum anyway. Can we just stick him in a quicksand pond and forget about him?

[kalikahuntress]

I fully support this.

[darsynia]

Ugh I passed someone on the road today with two bumper stickers. One said 'Fight Crime: Shoot Back' and the other was a Rick Santorum 2012 sticker.

[hazel_belle]

car bumper sticks, le sigh

Rick Santorum or his followers?

[layweed]

All I can ask is...

"Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

Re: Rick Santorum or his followers?

[darsynia]

I will never ever not hear that in Classic Obi-Wan's voice.

Re: Rick Santorum or his followers?

[hazel_belle]

this is like the chicken or the egg question; no right answer but many arguments

Re: Rick Santorum or his followers?

[astridmyrna]

A circle has no beginning.

[beoweasel]

Let's not forget, that according to Santorum, Obamacare will deny coverage to people with disabilities because they'll be deemed as not useful to society.

R. SANTORUM: It’s all about utilization, right? It’s all about how do we best allocate resources where they are most effectively used? [...] Government allocating resources best on how to get the best bang for your dollars and it’s all about utility. It’s all about the usefulness of the person to society, instead of the dignity of every human life and the opportunity for people who love and care for people to give them the best possibility to have the best possible life.

[elegantenigma]

But you are forgetting the GOP golden rule: all ideas are bad unless thought of by the GOP.

[roseofjuly]

Isn't that the exact opposite of it, though? Most people who want and would be approved for physician-assisted suicide want to die with dignity. It's not because they are no longer useful, it's because they are in so much pain or they can't remember who their wife is or they think it's 1973 or something.

[leprofessional]

But then they'll feel conflicted because frothy also enjoys oppression of minorities. ;)

[ladypolitik]

#gurl

[age_of_green]

I think the only way that might happen is if all of Europe does to the US what we did to Iran, sanction wise. Even then that will probably make all the crazies crazier.

[nicosian]

So all those 80-90yr olds I met in the netherlands, my fam and their friends, were figments of my imagination? the...quite nice nursing home we visited, where my 86 yr old great uncle played piano for the residents, and the gardens and paths, with bikes to take someone wheelchair bound on a nice ride, were all made up in my mind? because I have pictures. The home care that the government there pays for said elderly relative to live at home...yeah made that up

[lizzy_someone]

It is embarrassing that my country is sort of an international laughingstock. :( But people here have certainly earned it -- this reminds me of when someone claimed that Stephen Hawking would be euthanized if he were subjected to government health care, and Stephen Hawking was like, "Uh, guys? Government health care saved my life."

[yeats]

djfl;dkjsafds deets plz.

[lizzy_someone]

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