The Biden-Harris team have plunged recklessly ahead with their appointment of Dr. Ezekiel “Easy-kill” Emanuel to their newly-formed Coronavirus Task Force. He’s the fellow to call when an adopted priority of bailing out a massive financial bubble requires that one impose the Nazi-like determination that there is such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived. Easy-kill’s claim to fame is his unflinching, even obsessive need to rid society of useless eaters. Is this an exaggeration?
His “The Financial Crisis and Health Care,” published in the Chicago Tribune on October 12, 2008, seized the opportunity of the collapse of the real estate bubble to slash health care: “The world economy is teetering… With trillions of dollars evaporating in this crisis, millions of middle-class Americans face the prospect of losing their homes and jobs, and witnessing a dramatic contraction of their retirement savings. In response, the public will desperately want financial security… [B]ailing out bankers and other gamblers [and the] huge increase in the federal debt that these bailouts will entail intensifies the pressure to rein in health-care costs…”
