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To: DManA; BykrBayb; floriduh voter; amdgmary; Sun; EternalVigilance; Lesforlife; metmom; Coleus; ...
Two separate issues are being conflated in this article.

1. Withholding food and water at the end of life.
2. Government rationing of health care.

I see nothing to be gained in doing this except riling people up.

How is government-ordered withholding of food and water, which America has in abundance, any different from government-ordered withholding of medical care, which America also has in abundance?

9 posted on 11/23/2010 4:43:49 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee; DManA; BykrBayb; trisham; floriduh voter; amdgmary; Sun; EternalVigilance; Lesforlife; ..
How is government-ordered withholding of food and water, which America has in abundance, any different from government-ordered withholding of medical care, which America also has in abundance?

For that matter, since when did it become the government's business to decide who gets to eat and who gets medical care?

DManA, this is none of the government's business. They don't own us. It's not their food and medical care to ration.

yet......

And even if they claim it is by passing legislation, that doesn't really make it so.

12 posted on 11/23/2010 4:59:18 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: wagglebee

In one case the government ALLOWED something to happen.
In the other case the government is MAKING something happen.

You really can’t see the distinction?


24 posted on 11/23/2010 6:21:09 PM PST by DManA
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To: wagglebee

Thanks for the ping!


28 posted on 11/23/2010 9:21:20 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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