Michael Ryan is a hysterical ignoramus

Re: "The Worst Bill Ever," from the November 6th editorial page of the Augusta Chronicle.

Michael Ryan calls the new health care reform plan the worst bill ever. I can guarantee he's never read one word of it. So how would he know? Rejecting something without studying means he's rejecting it out of ignorance, making him an ignoramus.

Of course, he bases his opinion on what other conservative pundits are saying. For example he cites the Wall Street Journal which called it the "worst bill ever." It's a good bet nobody on the Wall Street Journal editorial board has read one bit of it either. That paper is a right wing, pro-business publication, and their opposition to any democratic bill is knee-jerk and not to be unexpected.

Basing an opinion on what Michele Bachman, a nutty ditz from Minnesota, says doesn't strengthen Mr. Ryan's case either. Ms. Bachman led a demonstration in front of capitol hill yesterday, opposing the bill. Mr. Ryan writes "thousands of tea party activists converged upon the hill." This is a little misleading--it was only 4,000 people (the ugliest group of fat white people a person will ever see)--less than the average attendance of a Richmond County high school football game. They carried ridiculous, racist signs targetting President Obama. The lead, most prominent sign, equated the health care plan with the holocaust. The sign had the words National Socialist Health Care Plan over a picture of dead bodies piled up at Dachau concentration camp. Anybody who thinks improving health care reform is in any way comparable to mass murder is a stupid ass.

Ms. Bachman falsely referred to the health care reform bill as socialized medicine. It's not socialized medicine, not even close, because private insurance companies will still exist and remain the predominate source of funding for health care.

Mr. Ryan writes that eventually "all medicine will be rationed by politics." Logically, most people would rather have government rationing health care than profit-minded, greedy business executives.

I have one other criticism of this editorial. Mr. Ryan noted that "One economist has estimated the federal government is now in control of 30 percent of the U.S. economy. Adding health care would increase its control to about 48 percent." He doesn't cite his source. What economist says this? An anonymous economist can just make up numbers. I would like to know what economist based on what study came up with these numbers.