So, DH speaks to his sister about HCR and finds out all kinds of stuff...

[Bettie]

For example:

People are now walking into health insurance companies and demanding their free insurance and the money they are owed due to the new legislation.

Oh, and they get a free $4,000 payment for being unemployed in Michigan.

The best one though by far is that the media picked on poor George W all through his presidency but they never pick on Obama at all.

She gets her "news" from Michael Savage. And this is the one we thought was relatively smart.

I'm so ashamed to be related to her, but at least for me it is by marriage, not blood...

[BlueJazz]

1. Oh Brother. Does she really believe the stuff that is in your post?

Come on...Nobody is THAT ill-informed. (Kidding)

I deal with people each day... (I fix their computers in their homes)...and I hear stuff that makes me want to start running out the door screaming.."Ha Ha...they're coming to take me away" :)

[Bettie]

2. I was shocked to hear this from this particular sister

She seems generally reasonable. Clearly, I was mistaken.

Now, his other two sisters...knew they were wingnuts.

Oh well, of the six kids, two are liberal (DH and his brother) and the rest are crazed.

FIL (82 years old) has become a late-blooming progressive. He was an Eisenhower type Republican and he voted for Obama and told everyone he met that they were stupid if they didn't. So, the in-laws are a mixed bag.

My own brothers also believe all of this crap...they are residents of moranville though.