Interminable Sentence Nails Obamacare
In August 2012, a candidate for Illinois State Senate, District 18, Dr. Barbara Bellar, thought she would start a fundraising event with a lighthearted tone. She claimed that she could describe ObamaCare (the ACA) in one sentence -- one very long sentence.
Because Dr. Bellar so accurately portrayed the current national sentiment about the ACA, a video of her speaking her very long sentence went viral. As of 10/7/12, it had received 2,434,958 hits on YouTube.
This is what she said, verbatim. (Bullets were inserted by this author.)
We are going to be gifted with a healthcare plan [the ACA]:- We are forced to purchase, and fined if we don't;
- Which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people
- Without adding a single new doctor; but
- Provides for 16,000 new IRS agents;
- Written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it;
- Passed by a Congress that didn't read it; but
- Exempted themselves from it; and
- Signed by a president who smokes;
- With funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes;
- For which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect;
- By a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare;
- All to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese; and
- Financed by a country that's broke.
Funny, to be sure, but here's the scary part. It is all true!
Interminable Sentence Nails Obamacare
