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Old 08-25-2009, 03:38 PM
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Good point. If government spending was geared towards saving lives, the healthcare legislation would have been slam-dunked a long time ago. I think I heard a statistic on TV within the last few days that 85,000 people died in the U.S. in 2008 alone because they couldn't get adequate healthcare in time to save their lives.
Because they didn't have health insurance or because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time?

I get a kick out of the debate on social programs versus military spending. Without our military, we wouldn't have a country to be "free" in. I never heard of any "social program" keeping citizens free.