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WASHINGTON, D.C. The White House today unveiled a new plan designed to cut rising Medicare and Social Security costs by shooting the elderly dead in their tracks.

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    Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago

    Certainly health care is an issue of great concern but is this really the answer?

    Vice President Cheney praised the new approach during a speech to the American Enterprise Institute. "I think it's a good solution all the way around. Medicare and Social Security expenses are rising through the roof. At the same time, many hunters are running out of game because of rampant logging and over-development. I know, because I was behind opening public lands to such development. The truth is that many folks lack the opportunity that I did to bravely hunt down dangerous quail from a car.

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      AntiNeoCon1 year, 2 months ago

      I could see them shooting you after you get too old for sex, but with all the new drugs you can rule that out. :)

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      Blackadder19641 year, 2 months ago

      Didn't V.P Cheney take part in a test case for this last year even used his own gun to save tax dollars.

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      Beeboppin711 year, 2 months ago

      I guess this is one way of solving the problem. Perhaps we can begin with the politicians and their parents first.

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        Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago

        I don't know about their parents...

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        ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago

        That'd be my approach. They are pretty old. And, per capita, they consume way more in tax dollars than the rest of us old farts.

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        Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago

        "Certainly we care about the elderly. That's why our compassionate conservative goal is to put them out of their lingering misery. Plus, they'll be contributing to the health of our economy, which is a noble goal at any age."

        Bullets are definitely cheaper than prescription drugs.

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          AntiNeoCon1 year, 2 months ago

          Do they allow you one last cigarette? :) Hell, I don't smoke anymore...geeze.

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          cantfoolme1 year, 2 months ago

          I'm off to purchase a bullet proof vest (and pants).

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          mcgrievysr1 year, 2 months ago

          Actually shooting the elderly is probably far less of a convoluted idea than most of Bush's solutions to many of our other problems, no? :-)

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            engineer1 year, 2 months ago

            two points!!

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              natashas1 year, 2 months ago

              LOL!

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                brothers1 year, 2 months ago

                Maybe sometime down the road it just might happen. Nothing to laugh about.

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                  TOtheMOON1 year, 2 months ago

                  Until then, I'm gonna laugh.

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                  texangelwings1 year, 2 months ago

                  Sooner or later most of us will get old! Gee, something to look forward too?....not!

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                    2sidestoeverything1 year, 2 months ago

                    Well what do they consider old 60's, 70's, 80's or higher who decides? Damn getting older is becoming very inviting as I watch the years go by. ;~/

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                      wallyone1 year, 2 months ago

                      if the old are a hazzard on the road sometimes i subscribe to notion to shoot them.. however it is a bit rash..

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                        WCFIELDS1 year, 2 months ago

                        Add cell phone users and recent Chinese immigrants to the list.

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                        morelies1 year, 2 months ago

                        retirement cermonies int he future...

                        "34 years of faithful service..a watch, a plaque, clean out your locker..and Bang! oh ya....may we have the watch back? George retires tomorrow and we need it...."

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                          seattlewiz1 year, 2 months ago

                          This is always an interesting and highly depated topic....I agree with wallyone, it is too too rash!

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                            SS4541 year, 2 months ago

                            Better plan...Shoot all right wing REPUBLICONS...5 days later SHOOT ALL REPUBLICONS!

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                              TOtheMOON1 year, 2 months ago

                              We could have "Nursing Farms". Just drop the old folks off and the hunters can come out on the weekends for some shooting.

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                                kerrywon1 year, 2 months ago

                                Dick Cheneys already got some experience with this, a couple of beers and let him go for it! What might be a better use of them (especially the Republicans) is free airfare to Iraq. There the troops could use them as decoys to draw fire from snipers to pinpoint sniper nests. Then afterwards they could be shipped back to the states to be processed as pet-food ala "Soylent Green", maybe Soylent Greenies? Tastier and healthier than BGH injected and Mad Cow infected beef!!

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                                stevareno1 year, 2 months ago

                                with dying becoming illegal unless you're out of money and insurance and all those people not dying from tobacco products,well they have to do something

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                                  WoodGnome1 year, 2 months ago

                                  It should start with the elderly who have the funds to pay for Human growth Hormone and Steroids. They are trying to "stay" young by buying youth. I would gladly have a Gun Lobby out there, chewing gum or tobacco roaming the streets for the elderly too vain to grow old. Shoot them first and then we can get on with the pass on of resources to the younger ones. The poor are going to die earlier than the rich anyway.

                                  The lust for youth in the wealthy elderly is a very big problem that will arise as a degradation of resources. The elderly wanting to become "immortal" is a great strain on the Planet's resources. It is far more noble and beneficial for the planet to accept that we get old, we die. Hunt down the "immortals", there can be only none.

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                                    evelyna1 year, 2 months ago

                                    But what will happen to the cottage industries ripping off the old to make a living.

                                    Electrolux, miracle ear, credit card companies, scotters,meals on wheels, senior centers and such.

                                    They depend on the old for their steady supply of unearned income.

                                    What a great country. You can set up your own insurance company, bill people and not pay their claims. Legalized murder to save money must be just around the corner. Why not profit before people always.

                                    Compasionate conservatism my ass!

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                                      RedRiverJ1 year, 2 months ago

                                      LOL......good find.

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                                        getreal11 year, 2 months ago

                                        My Mother has made it to 92 years. She was developing gall stones in her 50's and they put her on blood pressure medicine that hid the problem. At 81yrs they removed 67 stones. The doctor that did the operation closed her up and didn't mention the cancer in her lower intestines. We ended up getting that taken care of and she no longer takes blood pressure medicine. This article on shooting old folk is not far from the truth. Medicare will pay for harmful meds and half way operations so the doctors, pharmaceuticals and med industry can keep going. You have to have sick people to stay afloat. Social security, Welfare and food stamps are being given to the illegal aliens so I guess shooting our parents is a quicker death. Very good find!

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                                          TOtheMOON1 year, 2 months ago

                                          Your 92 yr old mother sounds healthier than me. And I am less than half her age!! Sounds like shes been through a lot.

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                                          koranagirl1 year, 2 months ago

                                          Uh, why don't they just outsource them to India? That's what Dell and many major American corporations have done for their help lines. They could send them there and give them one tenth of the SSI and social security they now "have" to have to survive. If they complain, they can put them on an Indian 800 help line with a customer service rep that only speaks with an unintelligible accent in broken english no one can understand. And, if they're really good (and we KNOW they are), they can concoct 9 levels of telephone menus and if any wrong button is pushed, the line can go dead immediately! Corporate US has had this answer to those stupid warranty and rebate programs for years, what has taken this administration so long to catch on? An outsourced 'help' program for the elderly is the only answer! You don't need to shoot them--just outsource them! then you can easily forget them

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                                          getreal11 year, 2 months ago

                                          TotheMoon We manage to stop them from killing her. She has lived through a lot and I'm thankful for every moment. Every pension she ever work for was always strip away from her. She never went for food stamps even when she finally qualified. They try to take the very little social security she receives and medical help too. She did with out glasses, without dental help and food at times. She is a survivor. This country doesn't appreciate the elderly like it should. Let alone the working Americans. In my life time I have not found an American that will not work for pennies, You work are you starve.

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                                            Sideways_281 year, 2 months ago

                                            "Better plan...Shoot all right wing REPUBLICONS...5 days later SHOOT ALL REPUBLICONS!"

                                            careful there ss454, the rightwing is the gun lobby also, you pacifists wouldn't have much chance if the revolution broke out, and if you did then all you gun control people would show your hypocritical side. soooooo bring it on.

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                                              itsme21 year, 2 months ago

                                              lol!

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