Posted on 03/27/2008 4:39:54 PM PDT by chessplayer
A senior Church of Scotland minister has questioned the wisdom of spending large amounts of money keeping older people alive. The Reverend Maxwell Craig, 76, feels funding could be better spent helping the young stay out of trouble.
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Incredible. The Reformation.....the gift that just keeps giving.
76 years OLD, you say?
He should off himself to set an example for the rest of us. ;)
“Spending” does NOT “keep youth out of trouble” - ask Paris Hilton’s parents.
PreacherMan arguably has been drinking too much of the sacra’mental’ wine.
LOL
I was gonna say, let’s start with HIM!
And why should we take care of the handicapped? /sarc
SOYLENT GREEN!!!
No, this is what I think. I am going to linger until there is no money left, then and only then my family can pull the plug.
Most people don't pay enough into the system to pay their own way.
I bet many progressives are in agreement with the idea that old people should be left to die because they are too expensive to take care of. But can you imagine the firestorm if he had said that AIDS treatment is too expensive just to prolong a terrible illness and the money can be better spent elsewhere?
So, what’s he using up air space for?
The Minister has a point ... but one that is only present and worth discussion in a socialized medicine or subsidized medicine system. If individuals have their own funds to spend on health care, then the system becomes self regulating.
As people get older, health care costs go up as the natural decay of time and bad habits wear the body down. When people run out of money to support their health, they will soon suffer a condition that will cause mortality to take it’s final toll.
What a creep.
Ironically, a strong family and extended family help. Many grandparents raise their grandchildren without any help from the parents. Example: Obama’s “racist” grandmother. I doubt he’d be successful without his grandmother taking care of him when he was young.
Ping....
Why don't you suggest that the parents of these 'young' spend some time helping their kids stay out of trouble and let the old folks live too. Sheesh, has it really come down to one or the other?
Heck....the elderly should quit taking care of the YOUNG....that’d show ‘em
You are correct. And as people start living longer and longer this is a problem we will have to address....it's uncomfortable but calling people names who even dare bring it up is ridiculous.
I'm just stating a fact when I say that the money that is spent just to keep bodies alive is astronomical. That is not a comment on whether or not that money should be spent..it's just a fact..a fact that people don't want to talk about.
And this notion that "we paid in.." Anyone who has taken care of an elderly person knows that one long hospital visit more than takes up what was put in..and that's the truth.
If we say we will do this ... whatever it costs, than we're going to have to decide as a nation what is going to have to go...because we just won't be able to afford it.
Watch, I give you 10 posts before someone calls me a Nazi.
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