The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel posted this photo essay showing the HUGE lines of people being forced to wait outside in the rain for flu shots.
Photo six is posted below- Mike O’Keefe brought a plywood sign, “Welcome to Government health care.”
Mike O’Keefe thinks a health care overhaul would lead to more long lines like the flu shot lines at Cedarburg High School.
Hat Tip Tim N.
Mike O’Keefe gets it.
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:20 pm | #1
LOL! Classic!
Of Course it won’t get any “news” play, but awesome just the same!
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:21 pm | #2
Sasha & Malia Obama are not getting the vaccine
WHO does not recommend the vaccine
So, wazzup? why all the hype/
http://hubpages.com/hub/Sasha-Malia-Will-Not-Receive-the-Swine-Flu-Vaccine
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:26 pm | #3
Government “NEEDLING”.
No Thanks
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:26 pm | #4
I shan’t be getting any flu vaccine. I read that should you be innoculated against the seasonal flu, your chances of contracting pig flu increase. I can’t say for certain that is correct but since I decided to not get the pig flu vaccine, I won’t be getting the seasonal flu vaccine either.
Just stay out of crowds and/or cover your face if you are afraid of catching something.
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:26 pm | #5
Related: Canadians Protest Plans to Ration Health Care in U.S. http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/07/canadians-protest-plans-to-ration.html
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:29 pm | #6
That is a wonderful shot…I need to see pics like that, to know there are true patriots out there, making the case, advancing the cause.
Keep pouring it on gang!
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:38 pm | #7
Sweet.
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:40 pm | #8
Who would wait in a line to receive a shot of poisons into their bloodstreams?
People need to read up on this vaccine. I do not understand why people who do not trust the government for anything, seem to place trust in them in regards to this shot. Why? Why, when you have so many signs pointing in the direction that our government does NOT have our best interests at heart, would you do a turnabout and think that these vaccines are safe? Especially when the government has made sure that the pharmaceutical companies will not be held responsible should something bad happen to people who take it. It’s just mindboggling.
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:42 pm | #9
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October 23rd, 2009 | 3:47 pm | #10
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October 23rd, 2009 | 3:49 pm | #11
Wide chisel-tip permanent marker – $1.50.
Plywood board cut to spec – $5.00
Simple text that alerts Americans to their freedom disappearing, along with trillions of dollars in the process – Priceless.
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:51 pm | #12
to my way of thinking, if they want to wait in line to get the govt shot, more power to them. The more that do it, the less there might be that may not infect me. No govt shot for me! I’m more willing to take my chances with the flu than I am willing to trust this vaccine has had enough time to be deemed as “safe”.
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:51 pm | #13
Hilarious! …Until someone gets sick.
Rather like the sick joke that is government medicine.
October 23rd, 2009 | 4:00 pm | #14
Hey, at least they have flu shots available. Where I live they are OUT of flu shots for seasonal flu and won’t be getting anymore. Some places will be getting the H1N1 flu shot but won’t be available for anyone, only for those authorized to receive them such as small children, mothers who care for infants and for health care workers. Yes, welcome to government health care.
October 23rd, 2009 | 4:04 pm | #15
Thanks to Mike O’Keefe for speaking out and showing people what our government healthcare will become!
I have NEVER had a flu shot and I certainly don’t intend to start getting them now. I don’t trust our “caring” government to get even this small thing right…why would I trust them to overhaul our entire healthcare system? They are just intent on a complete power grab.
October 23rd, 2009 | 4:08 pm | #16
Perfect, stand out in the rain with hundreds of people breathing on each other so you can get the flu………………………………………….shot.
October 23rd, 2009 | 4:13 pm | #17
Maybe they will be glad they waited and got the shots. Many people who want the shots will not be able to get them in time.
John DeFlumeri Jr
October 23rd, 2009 | 4:23 pm | #18
Priceless indeed! That sign rocks.
I wouldn’t get the vaccine even if they would offer me a trillion dollars.
If the Usurper gets his Health Care Plan to pass, expect to see more of of these long lines.
October 23rd, 2009 | 4:26 pm | #19
Mike O’Keefe is a HERO. We need more like him. It takes guts to do something like this alone. I really hope he sees Jim’s post and reads these comments.
Thank you, Mike.
October 23rd, 2009 | 4:29 pm | #20
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just a few sample’s..
flashback:
Medicaid Rationing Will Cost More in the End
Medicaid Rationing Will Cost More in the End
flashforward:
Doctors Say Health Care Rationing Already Exists
[Americans might be justifiably nervous about losing control of their health care decisions, especially if they think government bureaucrats will be in charge. But some doctors and economists argue that, in effect, the U.S. health care system is already rationing, in the most unproductive ways.
"In America, we strictly ration health care. We've done it for years," says Dr. Arthur Kellermann, professor of emergency medicine and associate dean for health policy at Emory University School of Medicine. "But in contrast to other wealthy countries, we don't ration medical care on the basis of need or anticipated benefit. In this country, we mainly ration on the ability to pay. And that is especially evident when you examine the plight of the uninsured in the United States."]
that is where we’re all eventually headed re: Obama’s public option plan..
btw, please take Obama’s words to heart.. and ask yourself what he means
by “Universal Health Care”?? imho, that means the US will eventually
be under the auspices of the UN..
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October 23rd, 2009 | 4:39 pm | #21
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testing 123..
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October 23rd, 2009 | 4:40 pm | #22
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Wake-up Call: Islamists Insert
Themselves into Healthcare Debate
[Does this ring a bell? It’s the modus operandi of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). They are a well known political party in Egypt with a specific political platform that has now metastasized around the world into hundreds of splinter groups with a headquarters also in London. Ultimately that political platform is Islamism (a.k.a. Political Islam). Islamism is specifically the desire to somehow put shar’iah law (Islamic jurisprudence) into place in government through a legal system not based in reason but rather based in clerical exegesis of Islamic jurisprudence. The Brotherhood is the predominant global face or front of that movement.
When it comes to domestic policy stances, one can usually pick out MB politics from a mile away. On economic issues, the Islamist (MB) platform is heavily socialist based in government entitlement programs. They thus will see common cause on economic issues with the left in the United States. On social issues, the Islamist platform is focused on their own version of family values and they will try and seek common cause with the right in the U.S. on those issues. Just in these two examples it begins to become more clear that Islamists are neither Democrat nor Republican. On foreign policy their stances are also easily identifiable. They have their own political platform-Islamism. They advocate for Western isolationism in order to allow for unimpeded advancement of Islamist movements globally. Forget any advocacy for liberty. They are doves as minorities from within the West so that their brothers can be hawks from within Muslim majority nations so they can impose and spread Islamism abroad. In domestic and foreign policy politics they will support whichever party stands less of a threat to the advocacy of the transnational Islamist agenda.]
RTWT (links @ link)!!
much more here:
http://www.aifdemocracy.org/
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October 23rd, 2009 | 4:42 pm | #23
In my own neighborhood….I’m SO proud!
October 23rd, 2009 | 4:53 pm | #24
My Dr. in Orange County,CA. has been out of the seasonal flu shot, only received a small supply.
October 23rd, 2009 | 5:00 pm | #25
Remember the outrage when the flu shot ran out when Bush was President? OMG, the media was having a cow, it was a disaster, Bush should have made sure there was enough to go around, remember that? I sure do. Not holding my breath to see the same outrage.
October 23rd, 2009 | 5:33 pm | #26
We laugh, but we will all be in the stupid lines if this un-Constitutional crap passes.
Remember the library card and all the trouble that caused when Bush was snooping. So what about turning all medical records over to the federal government, you don;t think that might be a real problem?
October 23rd, 2009 | 5:46 pm | #27
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ghHorse @ 5:33 pm #26
people don’t seem to know the half of it..
part 1 of Obama Care was stealthily passed
in the Stimulus Package back in February..
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October 23rd, 2009 | 6:08 pm | #28
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October 23rd, 2009 | 6:33 pm | #29
“In America, we strictly ration health care. We’ve done it for years,” says Dr. Arthur Kellermann, professor of emergency medicine and associate dean for health policy at Emory University School of Medicine”
Dr Kellermann is the same guy who made up that phony anti-gun statistic (43 times more likely to be killed with a gun by a family member, than kill an intrueder in your home), that he later admitted to be faulty.
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:35 pm | #30
Can you imagine the outrage if this flu shot shortage was happening while President George W. Bush was president. The lib media would be talking about it 24/7 until it was watergate. The horror! The horror! Now that obama is president, you don’t even hear about it. You wouldn’t even know until you went for a flu shot and they told you that they were out. Right now obama is saying to the lib media, “good media, good little media, my good little media”. The truth is obama couldn’t carry President George W. Bush’s jock strap.
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:37 pm | #31
This sums it up perfectly!
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:45 pm | #32
ghHorse
October 23rd, 2009 | 5:33 pm 26
So what about turning all medical records over to the federal government, you don;t think that might be a real problem?
But the government has said that all of the records will be stored on *secure* government-controlled computers; and will be available only to EVERY government agency that wants to see them. (But you can’t see your records. ah, well.)
And with the “advanced computer security” that the government uses – and the tight controls on who can see and disseminate the information, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???!!
/sarc/
October 23rd, 2009 | 7:28 pm | #33
I grew up in liberal Wisconsin. They deserve that long line. Maybe it will wake them up. I only feel sorry for the Republicans that had to wait in that line…
October 23rd, 2009 | 8:15 pm | #34
Love it! Maybe a lightbulb moment for some of the Ovoters in line.
October 23rd, 2009 | 8:35 pm | #35
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October 23rd, 2009 | 8:42 pm | #36
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Marty @ 6:33 pm #29
re: Dr Kellermann
it really would have been helpful if you had provided
something to back your statement up.. but no matter,
they are totally different issues..
here are a few other Doctors opinions, (you
can always Google for more, there’s plenty)..
Healthcare Rationing Already Exists
Obama Health Plan Won’t Cover All Pre-Existing Conditions
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October 23rd, 2009 | 8:43 pm | #37
Sure, blame the government for long lineups to get a flu shot. We should leave public health to the drug companies who will be happy to order the vacine and organize the distribution. I’m sure they won’t charge more than $100 or $200 a shot. Maybe more, but who is counting.
October 23rd, 2009 | 8:47 pm | #38
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ps re: bg @ 8:42 pm #36
that rationing is going on now is undeniable..
can you just (general) imagine what
it will be like when everyone is on it
10-15-20 years out??
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October 23rd, 2009 | 8:53 pm | #39
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Jamest155 @ 6:35 pm #30
now there’s a strategy that would have worked..
should have gotten GWB to campaign
for the public option from the get go..
“poof” public option off the table, problem solved..
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October 23rd, 2009 | 9:07 pm | #40
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you know i hate to say this, but none of this matters..
no one would love to be more wrong than i, but like i’ve been saying all
along, they will pass part 2 sooner or later, as they have way too much
invested in it, namely part 1 having already been passed.. bottom line:
par their course, those that can’t be bribed, they’ll just step over.. they
have the votes, they just don’t want the fallout to land on them alone..
and if they fear losing seats in the next election, they’ll be all the more emboldened to pass it while they have the opportunity..
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October 23rd, 2009 | 9:20 pm | #41
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Lorenzo @ 8:43 pm #37
sarc on/
yeah right, tell that to Obama..
oh wait, he is the government right??
/sarc off
(pardon the source, but hey, they don’t seem too happy either..)
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October 23rd, 2009 | 9:40 pm | #42
Lorenzo
October 23rd, 2009 | 8:43 pm 37
“Sure, blame the government for long lineups to get a flu shot. We should leave public health to the drug companies who will be happy to order the vacine and organize the distribution. I’m sure they won’t charge more than $100 or $200 a shot. Maybe more, but who is counting.”
Are you serious? You go with the government plan and I’ll stick with the drug companies. Let me know how well that works for you…You’ll be paying far more than $100 or $200 a shot from the increases in your taxes for the honor of waiting in that long line…that is if you ever even get the shot.
October 24th, 2009 | 1:09 am | #43
Wow, what a protest! Not.
One guy? LMAO
October 24th, 2009 | 1:58 am | #44
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October 24th, 2009 | 5:47 am | #45
Wow, what a protest! Not.
One guy? LMAO
And here he is on the internet for all to see. All it takes is one. LMAO at you.
October 24th, 2009 | 6:21 am | #46
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October 24th, 2009 | 7:55 am | #47
Poor shi*tsicle,
You just don’t get it do you? Why that picture is so dear to conservatives:
You’re EXACTLY right, ONE guy. One maverick who breaks ranks while the sheep look on and bahhhh comfortingly to themselves. One solitary figure, who shouts “the emporer has NO CLOTHES!!” While the brain dead reflexively gasp.
You have been so numbed and dumbed by progressive thinking, all beauty is lost on you. It’s all tonal greys, and when a bright splash of primary color lands on your pathetic canvas, it appears out of sorts. Unfamiliar. Alien.
Get ready Crap-Pop, ’cause there are millions of lone individuals falling out of lines. One guy, just keep thinking that. It’s only ONE guy…
October 24th, 2009 | 8:24 am | #48
I’ve got the normal flu shot the last 9 years I have no problem with them. I will skip the H1N1.
That guy with the sign was great. Just think by that one act how many hearts and minds he changed or at least woke up.
I saw some of these people on the news and they were mad. They were mad at the government. Welcome to Obamacare people
October 24th, 2009 | 8:44 am | #49
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October 24th, 2009 | 9:12 am | #50
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October 24th, 2009 | 9:36 am | #51
Heh…welcome to the future of healthcare (if Komrad Obama gets his way).
They’ve got people waiting in a cold rain…..for a flu shot. Umm..yeah, that makes sense.
October 24th, 2009 | 9:44 am | #52
If you’re worried about getting the flu, take an onion, place it in a bowl and set it on a table in your house. You don’t need to peel it or cut it, just put it in a bowl. For whatever reason the people in that house will not get the flu (or just a very mild case of it). You can put it in your house, office, where ever. There ya go, flu prevention and it didn’t cost you a dime. Don’t ask me WHY or HOW it works, it just does.
October 24th, 2009 | 10:11 am | #53
The vaccine is for the rats anyway. Every year are we told to get flu shots. And in the end, none of them provides 100% security. You still, usually, have a 50% chance of getting the flu.
I guess Obama loves the millions provided by the pharma industry.
October 24th, 2009 | 11:05 am | #54
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October 24th, 2009 | 5:02 pm | #56
Poor shi*tsicle,
You just don’t get it do you? Why that picture is so dear to conservatives:
You’re EXACTLY right, ONE guy. One maverick who breaks ranks while the sheep look on and bahhhh comfortingly to themselves. One solitary figure, who shouts “the emporer has NO CLOTHES!!” While the brain dead reflexively gasp.
You have been so numbed and dumbed by progressive thinking, all beauty is lost on you. It’s all tonal greys, and when a bright splash of primary color lands on your pathetic canvas, it appears out of sorts. Unfamiliar. Alien.
Get ready Crap-Pop, ’cause there are millions of lone individuals falling out of lines. One guy, just keep thinking that. It’s only ONE guy…
Sometimes one guy makes the point better then 1,000 guys. As for the rest of the people standing in the rain–you think they’re enjoying this?
October 24th, 2009 | 6:20 pm | #57
I am surprised none of the Tea Party groups have gathered at one of the long lines in the nation just to point out to the cut and paste media this very point. Also, this is the first year the CDC (government) has been in charge of vaccine distribution. Even last year the manufacturers distributed directly to doctors and hospitals or clinics. Argh. More government intervention when they did nothing to isolate the flu in Mexico. It is a manufactured crisis for political advantage.
October 24th, 2009 | 6:45 pm | #58
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October 24th, 2009 | 10:21 pm | #59
LMAO. These sheeple obviously don’t get it — and the real punch line is not in the idiotic edicts of our Clown President, but in the things that the media refuses to cover, say for instance the nearly secret shortage of Tamiflu and H1N1 vaccine doses.
October 24th, 2009 | 10:27 pm | #60
I understand its Barack Obama’s fault there aren’t enough H1N1 virus vaccines? I’m beginning to doubt that he’s truly The One, as he was unable to have controlled when H1N1 appeared, as well as being unable to single-handedly speed up the months-long process it takes to create vaccines. Hmmm. Perhaps he’s not actually the Messiah.
Oh, and I’m glad this is the first year that the government is providing flu shots free of charge. Perhaps Mike O’Keefe would be better off purchasing his flu shot on the open market place? Perhaps he could find a better deal than ‘free’? Maybe finding somebody willing to pay him to get a flu shot?
What a fricking idiot. Reminds me of the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons:
Comic Book Guy: Last night’s Itchy & Scratchy was, without a doubt, the worst episode ever. Rest assured I was on the Internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.
Bart: Hey, I know it wasn’t great, but what right do you have to complain?
Comic Book Guy: As a loyal viewer, I feel they owe me.
Bart: For what? They’re given you thousands of hours of entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe you? If anything, you owe them.
Comic Book Guy: [hesitantly] …Worst episode ever.
October 24th, 2009 | 10:56 pm | #61
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October 25th, 2009 | 12:02 am | #62
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October 25th, 2009 | 6:49 am | #63
Thank you Mike O’Keefe!
October 25th, 2009 | 8:02 am | #64
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October 25th, 2009 | 11:57 am | #65
New ice age, killer bees, hole in the ozone, killer ants, Ebola, bird flu, asteroid impact, Y2K, global warming, swine flu…
The media always has some disaster to sell.
October 25th, 2009 | 12:08 pm | #66
There is something more to that sign which really says “Welcome to Government Healthcare, run by that boy Barack Obama.”
October 25th, 2009 | 4:54 pm | #67
[...] Gateway Pundit links to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story about long lines to get goverment flu shots. Frankly the photo is priceless. The message is downright scary. If the the government can’t handle flu shot how the hell are they going to be able to handle healthcare. [...]
October 25th, 2009 | 7:27 pm | #68
[...] Government Health Care in Milwaukee [...]
October 26th, 2009 | 8:41 am | #69
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October 27th, 2009 | 10:06 pm | #70
They didn’t expect a big turn out. You people waited in line because you wanted to and because it was FREE”, We all make choices and do some research before you complain. We have had many before “Obama” to make a mess of things. Do you think that this mess can be cleaned up in 10 months. Pull yourself up: Just Pray about it……….
October 29th, 2009 | 9:15 am | #71
Idiot!…..We saw this guy, and asked him if he would rather wait in line at a hospital and pay $30 for the shot instead…No answer….Duh!…. None of these people were forced to be here! Apparently he would rather trust his healthcare to the same companies that ruined Wall St over the last few years! This line was created by the media, not the government. This was in a VERY conservative community….So ask yourself…..Why were these people here?
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