Most of us heard that Natalie Cole died the other day. What many don't know is that she was in poor health due to a heroin addiction that she kicked many years ago. However, her health continued to decline, she had to get kidney transplants and ended up dying of heart failure, which was the final result of her heroin addiction.
Now I assume that Natalie had the money to fund her health care so that fact that she destroyed her life with heroin probably did not affect my wallet. However, there are millions of people who do not have the money to pay for all this expensive health care on account of their drug addictions. We end up paying that money.
I've lived a clean life and always had a job to pay my own way. However, nearly half my income now goes to the government so that they can pay welfare, food stamps and health care for millions of people who choose not to work but to sit around getting high.
I am considered not a compassionate person because I dare to bring this subject up from time to time.
You are right.