No, my argument still stands: if all the money that was mis-spent, overspent, misappropriated were correctly channeled, we would NOT have to choose between care for PVS and the folks in uniform who need health care.
Note that subsides, incentives and tax exemptions for Planned Parenthood AND so on were more than 89 million, never mind the other “inequities” that you didn’t mention but to which I referred. How many dollars do our State and Federal governments spend? No other waste in there? I think we can agree that with proper priorities that there could be funding enough for both.
I /agree/ with you that we must choose very carefully when deciding where to spend the peoples’ tax monies. We MUST fund our military in order to ensure care and to support those who support our safety. But we needn’t make a blanket decision that people in comas shouldn’t be treated: we may yet find a cure.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/man-who-awoke-from-10year-coma-dies/2006/02/22/1140563841796.html
I don’t think this man’s children would agree with you that his life wasn’t worth fighting for, any less than our troops are worth fighting for.
False dichotomy.
Also, if a man has worked all his life contributing to this country, what makes you think he cannot possibly have /earned/ a cardiac surgery? What if he himself is a veteran?
Regards,
Before anyone yells at me, yes, Lauren is /NOT/ in a coma: she is a different case completely anyway.