Eugenics? Wisconsin Gov. Walker expects more poor people to die

[frankfrank]

The Walker budget “recommends increasing payments to counties to cover the costs of burying Wisconsinites who die destitute” — one of the few major increases in spending to be found in the document. Indeed, on page 248 of the governor’s Health and Human Services budget, Walker recommends an “increase” in “funeral and cemetery aids”

http://leftword.blogdig.net/archives/articles/March2011/04/Walker__8217_s_Budget_Slashes_Medicaid__While_Increasing_Funeral_Assistance_For_Destitute_Who_Die.html

So just wait, I can think of some who will probably disparage this article entirely because it doesn't come from FOX or the Heritage Foundation or other right-wing extremist sources.

Am I reading between the lines on this? I don't think so.

Scott Walker's union busting isn't the only problem with the budget bill. It is also trying to restrict and chop a lot of health care costs for the poor, while it's increasing funding for funerals of people who die poor.

I wouldn't put EUGENICS past these guys at all. They are showing their contempt and hatred for the poor...and they want those "useless" people DEAD!!!

The Dead Kennedys said it so well - this was during the Reagan administration, where this anti-poor mindset really began to take off.



The Republicans are waging a CIVIL WAR on the poor, disabled, and mentally ill - without firing a shot.

 

[bendted]

Cremations are much cheaper than burials, so it can't be a money saving scheme. Sounds like an old fashioned Republican scarce tactic, and another example of their obsession with death.

 

[White Eagle]

Walker is such an asshole. I hope the people in WI realize their mistake in electing him and work long and hard to have him removed and no more Reps ever elected again.

 

[jackoroe]

Frank, Eugenics was a pseudo-science used by the Nazis to justify the whole racial superiority claptrap. I'm not quite seeing what that has to do with cremating indigent dead people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

 

[CowboyBob]

Governor Walker is clever.

If Walker, the Republicans and especially the teabaggers get their way, there will indeed be more deaths among the poor, elderly and disabled. It's killing them off more slowly, but the Republicans will get rid of those parasitic disabled people eventually. However I heard the Republicans are against euthanasia, but it must be alright if you starve and freeze them to death.

Way to go Republicans! Thanks for saving all those tax dollars by killing off those parasites.

 

[chrisrobin]

...and we're being asked to believe that one of the by-products of "Obamacare" will be death panels.

 

[Kulindahr]

it increased the budget by $50,000... what's that, like half an x-ray?

That's not enough for very many burials. With regulations today, it's almost impossible to bury someone for less than $500 -- and that's only a plain wooden box and skipping putting sod over the grave, just scattering grass seed. I don't know what Wisconsin requires, but in many states you can't even do a plain box any more, but have to have a coffin that seals -- and those are several hundred by themselves, so to get a burial as low as $500 the workers involved would have to be donating their services.

If this is a government-run operation, I'd expect these burials to come at no less than $750 apiece, more likely a thousand. So this figure would cover fifty funerals a years -- maybe.