{"id":4339,"date":"2011-03-18T05:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2011-03-18T05:25:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:25:42","slug":"oregons-defazio-says-people-will-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/oregons-defazio-says-people-will-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon’s DeFazio Says People Will Die!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RepubliCare is the health care plan Republicans offer for America.  It\u2019s principal feature is it\u2019s built in death benefit for the poor and middle classes.  Realizing that limiting the death benefit to sick people only was prejudicial, Republicans have extended the death benefit to healthy people.  They now get to die just like sick people.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18OrTsunami\"In an interview yesterday with ThinkProgress, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) said that \u201cpeople will die\u201d from Republican cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s tsunami tracking system and other disaster response agencies<\/strong>. DeFazio represents Oregon\u2019s 4th district, where the tsunami devastated<\/a> a local harbor and swept more than four people out to sea. DeFazio told ThinkProgress that furloughs at NOAA and other cuts to \u201cour defense\u201d against natural disasters were \u201ccrazy stuff\u201d that would weaken the federal government\u2019s already outdated disaster response system…<\/p>\n

…Watch it:<\/p>\n