Dhimmitude - the most recent word of horror

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or so an email making the circuit would have you believe. According to the email, this word appears in the Obama Healthcare Bill on Page 107 and means that while all other religions will be forced to buy the insurance Muslims are exempt. It simply is not true. Persons who MAY be exempt are those who have never taken government money, such as the Amish or Mennonites who have made their lives work solely outside any government assistance. If anyone in the United States is involved in Social Security, Medicare or Welfare and a thousand other government programs, they are not exempt from healthcare. If Amish or Mennonites have worked outside their own business interests, they also must buy the insurance because social security payment and medicare payments have been taken out of their paychecks. If they have been self-sufficient all their lives without taking payments of any kind from the government, they may claim exemption. I am by no means an Obama supporter, but friends, we let fear overcome good sense when we get these emails and immediately believe them. What do you think of this particular one? Frankly, I think the threat of being forced to buy insurance by the government is an excellent reason to never be involved with them at all.