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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
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.
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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.