The same people who value life to the point of wanting no one to abort, though a child may die shortly after birth, and though they are often if favor of letting people die with no health insurance, or even starve to death. There are somewhere around 22,000 government workers in embassies around the world. There are many more children who need better education in the US in order to have marketable skills. There are many malnourished people in the US. Yet 80 billion was the figure I heard for the new American Embassy being built in London.
It makes me wonder at those who wanted to scrap health care totally because they thought there was a priority system. Unfortunately there is, but not the one that the grassroots fighters misinterpret. It is not the death panel which is often described by people who have not read the Bill.. It is, rather, that the choice to live or die is not made of the basis of age or even illness. In the US it is based on how much money you can afford to pay the CEOs of health insurance companies for the right to win their lottery on life. They may choose, even if you have insurance, to cut you off for many reasons you won't understand.
Rachel Maddow described the current Health Care system beautifully tonight on MSNBC. Insurance companies are 'for-profit' businesses. They are not altruistic (other than obscene paychecks to their management). They are, after all, just running a business to pay salaries and throw a few crumbs to their shareholders.
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