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Pelosi Says Jail “Very Fair” Punishment For Not Buying Health Insurance

Posted by papundits on 11/14/2009

ConnCarrollSmBy Conn Carroll

TonyfromOz prefaces …..

Have you noticed something that has become prevalent these days. You sit and watch the TV news and current affairs TV where someone is interviewing  any politician from the Government who is in front of the cameras and behind the microphones, and the same thing applies as you watch this short video. Think for one minute. Have you ever found yourself talking to the image on the screen of that politician, and saying the same thing, time after time. “Answer the damned question.”

According to the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the House health care bill passed last Friday empowers the federal government to imprison people for up to five years if they willfully refuse to buy federally regulated and approved health insurance.

Shomari Stone of Komo 4 News in Seattle pressed the Speaker on this point yesterday. Watch:

President Barack Obama recently told ABC News’ Jake Tapper that he shares Pelosi’s belief that jail time is an appropriate punishment for not buying health insurance. Obama did not always believe this. Debating Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama said:

And I think that it is important for us to recognize that if, in fact, you are going to mandate the purchase of insurance and it’s not affordable, then there’s going to have to be some enforcement mechanism that the government uses. And they may charge people who already don’t have health care fines, or have to take it out of their paychecks. And that, I don’t think, is helping those without health insurance.

Conn Carroll is the Assistant Director of Strategic Communications at The Heritage Foundation and is also an Editor at The Foundry.

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One Response to “Pelosi Says Jail “Very Fair” Punishment For Not Buying Health Insurance”

  1. springguy57 said

    11/23/2009 at 5:57 pm

    The reporter is faked. Good audio editing. No such reporter at KOMO. No such question asked, at least not in those exact words.

    I’m publishing this comment only for the benefit of our rational readers who seek the Truth.
    You see the above comment is a Blatant Lie. A typical strategy for the Liberals-Socialists-Marxists-Fascists-Communists out there that want to control Your Life at any cost. These adherents to these 4 philosophies which are all trying to destroy our Constitution, our Republic type of Government, our Capitalism, our type of Democracy and our Freedoms. This is a tactic they employed during the election campaign. They would use any absurd ‘Top-of-the-head’ comment to cause us to spend 3 to 10 times more time researching and answering than they did with their fabricated comments. Now it’s happening again. So beware and be prepared!

    “Shomari Stone is a television reporter at KOMO 4 News, an ABC affiliate, in Seattle, Washington. He joined the KOMO team in December 2008 …” I do think KOMO news would know who is working for them! Don’t you agree? :-) Here’s a link to read the rest.
    http://downtownseattle.komonews.com/users/shomari-stone
    Emphasis is mine —ed

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