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To: AbeKrieger
> Let ‘em have at it, thin out the herds of pinko liberals - just don;t ask the taxpayer to save you from your own behaviors - you made the choice now live and die with it.

Just checkin'... you DO feel exactly the same way about tobacco smokers and alcohol drinkers and red-meat eaters, right? No taxpayer dollars for smokers' and drinkers' and red-meat-eaters' illnesses, like cancer, cirrhosis, heart disease? They all make their own choices, and can live and die with it.

(It happens, being of the libertarian persuasion, I DO feel exactly that way. I'm just making sure I understand your statement, and that we agree.)

31 posted on 01/16/2008 4:09:05 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

With regards to taxpayer money, if you can tie a specific behavior to the disease, yes.

That said, it is in the realm of possibility that cancer, cirrhosis, and heart disease are genetic or age-related, correct? So those cannot be painted with the same broad brush in my opinion. But without question AIDS and certain other diseases, you cannot contract genetically/without an external influence, which in almost all cases today are caused by sexual contact.


42 posted on 01/16/2008 6:38:59 AM PST by AbeKrieger (There is a special place in Hell for Lyndon Johnson.)
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To: dayglored

Last time I checked, smokers are more than paying their fair share into the government coffers.


47 posted on 01/16/2008 7:18:30 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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