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To: M. Dodge Thomas

I imagine that the permanently disabled are a drain on our economy too. Do you want us to kill them too Herr Hitler. /s


20 posted on 05/07/2008 5:55:42 PM PDT by dschapin
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To: dschapin
I imagine that the permanently disabled are a drain on our economy too. Do you want us to kill them too Herr Hitler

As noted in my comments above, I prefer spending money on (for example) on the conscious disabled to spending it on people in a PVS.

As a society we have finite resources, and demands for medical care that exceeds them. We make choices. As Medical care - especially at the end of life - becomes more and more expensive (Medicare spends more than more than a quarter of its annual budget on care for those in their last year of life, 80% of that on people who are clearly dying)we will have to make harder and harder choices. Defining these as crimes because we cannot do everything is not helpful.

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BTW.... my wife's Jewish, I spent five years doing the day to day scut work of elder-care for my in-laws, and you had best hope you never have the misfortune to call me a Nazi from withing arm's length instead of from the anonymous safety of a PC screen.

22 posted on 05/07/2008 6:44:48 PM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas (Opinion based on research by an eyewear firm, which surveyed 100 members of a speed dating club.)
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