I received a forwarded e-mail from an employee of a company called Touch International. The E-Mail was about an interview that Fred Thompson had done with Betsy McCaughey trying to scare seniors by saying President Obama's Health Care Bill promotes suicide as a way to cut cost.:
After the Fold the E-Mail and My Response..
The E-Mail!
From: XXX<XXX@touchintl.com>
Subject: FW: Page 425
To: "xxx)'" <
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 9:28 AM
Subject: Page 425
Page 425 of Health Care BILL
O.K. folks - I 'think' this will 'shake us up' - read and listen to the Interview - "IF" this does not cause every red-blooded American to contact their Representative, I don't know what will!! It's time for ACTION! Americans!! Both Democrats and Republicans beware.
(If this doesn't make your blood boil........... nothing will!!)
Page 425 of Health Care Bill - Listen to this interview Fred Thompson's Radio Show interviewing Betsy McCaughey (pronounced Mc Coy). Or look it up on www.fredthompsonshow.com, under interviews.
On page 425 it says in black and white that EVERYONE on Social Security, (will include all Senior Citizens and SSI people) will go to MANDATORY counseling every 5 years to learn and to choose from ways to end your suffering (and your life). Health care will be denied based on age. 500 Billion will be cut from Seniors healthcare. The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut health care, the oldest and the sickest will be cut first. Paying for your own care will not be an option.
Now, CALL YOUR PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell them to read page 425 if they don't read anything else. Surely some of them have parents.
"ON PAGE 425 OF OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE BILL, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes...They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!".
My Reponse!!
By the time I got through the E-Mail my face was flush my heart was racing because I am a care-giver for my 88 year old Mom. She has Dementia and Alzheimer's she takes 20 pills a day, she is blessed with the longevity gene (her mother lived to be 96) and if things continue her body will outlive her mind. I am committed to taking care of her the rest of her life or my life which ever it may be. I feel like I have been brutalized by this e-mail and the "At Any Cost To Defeat Health Care Reform mentality". She and I have Living Wills (Which is the point of Pg 425) we both know what we expect from our loved ones when time has run out and only extraordinary care will prolong life. It's not something I wanted to think about today but now that they have brought this to the fight FINE!!
For a relative to forward me this Republican Hate Speech from a local company's computer is the Height of Irresponsibility.
I e-mailed Touch International and informed them that I had received the e-mail and would like to know what their policy is in regards to publishing Political Hate Speech. As of this writing I have not heard back from them. In my e-mail I told the Public Relations person that I would write a diary on DailyKos about my experience with this e-mail, and that I would ask anyone in the IT profession that has dealing with Touch International to reconsider their relationship.
I have found a Urban Legends Blog that refutes this e-mail quite well:
http://www.networkedblogs.com/...
Friends It's Bare Knuckles Time! If you receive e-mails done on computers at companies that don't have adequate safeguards or practices that prevent employees from committing political attacks,, Respond to Them and everyone they copied, then look up the company and e-mail the Public Relations manager and then e-mail the CEO and so on until this bullying of Care Givers Stops!
http://www.touchinternational.com/...
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