Jesse Jackson sees the repeal of ObamaCare as a "creeping genocide."
Actually, I would use that term to refer to government-run health care.
Video here.
Transcript
ED SCHULTZ: If this follows through now that we‘ve got 59 million Americans without insurance, the number is growing, if they repeal health care, what are we facing in this country? A social pushback of some sort? What do you think?
JESSE JACKSON: Well, a kind of creeping genocide. What is hypocritical is those who voted against the health care bill, themselves, have comprehensive health care for their families. You‘re talking about more infant mortality and short life expectancy. You‘re talking about more working poor people, more poor people and not only on welfare, they‘re not derelicts they work. Half of the veterans who are homeless, men who are homeless are veterans. A million and a half children who are homeless and often go to school without adequate health care. So, this really is a mass march for the kind of humane—a human destruction, in the likes in which we‘ve never known. We deserve better.
SCHULTZ: How do we get the attention of the lawmakers to realize the seriousness of the numbers that you just quoted?
JACKSON: People have to rise above the ideology, it seems to me. And I‘ve seen people who, in fact who are working poor, supporting people who voted against their interest. I‘ve seen people who need the jobs in the south where I am tonight, so, foreign people who are against to having a Senate bill for jobs. And so, we just cannot give up on the facts of the matter whether you‘re in Appalachia or rural Alabama. This is the one place where white, and black and brown find common ground. We need for a health care system for all people.
SCHULTZ: Reverend, would you consider the—or describe the republican position on this is heartless?
JACKSON: Well, it is heartless and I‘ll tell you what, there are people who have—we spent the last month focusing on pre-existing conditions and women and men with cancer, for example, who in fact need treatment and cannot afford to stop working. Too much children going to school with toothache. And some cannot see, they have eye problems. Among the children do not have the capacity to function. Again, I cannot help get out of my mind going homeless shelter in San Francisco, more folks in that shelter work every day and can‘t afford rent and don‘t have health care. Who are these people?
These are fast food workers who serve us these hamburgers. They don‘t have health care. These are cab drivers who don‘t have health care. These are people who come to our homes and take care of our children who work sick before our children and they pick up a disease. And so, this is—we as Americans deserve a greatest sense of humanity and the return on investment. Prenatal care, health care and day care on the front side, and jail care and welfare on the back side and shorter life expectancy when it‘s unnecessary.
It's ridiculous for Jackson to suggest that before ObamaCare passed America was the land of a "creeping genocide," and its repeal would mean a return to the genocide.
Words have meaning. Does Jackson understand what "genocide" means?
I don't think so.
Schultz considers the Republican position heartless.
The majority of Americans didn't want ObamaCare in the first place and now they want it repealed.
They aren't all Republicans.
Are the majority of Americans heartless?
Are the majority of Americans in favor of genocide?
Jackson and Schultz owe Americans an apology.
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