basic life support in Aus is around $2,500 per day, if the cost is any similar in the USA that's a huge waste of money that could be going to more worthy causes :/

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Originally posted by tathi basic life support in Aus is around $2,500 per day, if the cost is any similar in the USA that's a huge waste of money that could be going to more worthy causes :/

I'm all for the maximization of utility, but I'm more pissed off at the blatant congressional violation of the seperation of powers. It really pisses off the liberatarian in me. The fucking democrats are being spineless twats, and the Republicans are naturally milking the issue like the valueless scum that they are:

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ABC News obtained talking points circulated among Senate Republicans explaining why they should vote to intervene in the Schiavo case. Among them, that it is an important moral issue and the "pro-life base will be excited," and that it is a "great political issue -- this is a tough issue for Democrats." http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=595905

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Originally posted by occrider "maximization of utility"

put down, and slowly step away from the economics textbook Occrider..

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Originally posted by Dupz put down, and slowly step away from the economics textbook Occrider..

Haha never .

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Does the average American not see this as a joke.....bandwagon politics....the pro life Republicans running an agenda for political gain rather than giving a fuck about the people involved...does the average joe on the street really buy this?....

Basically, you can go to the Middle East and all over the rest of Asia, and you wont find a single country anywhere in the world where there are as many religious fundamentalists or where the religious intensity is as high. And then they have the fucking nerve to go on about Islamic fundamentalists when to be perfectly fair, the Christian fundamentalist cuunts (that have managed to inflitrate all levels of government) are far far worse...

be very scared when conservatives want to 'help' you. help = i dont give a fuck about you, i want to use you to achieve my political/idiological agenda.

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Originally posted by zig Does the average American not see this as a joke.....bandwagon politics....the pro life Republicans running an agenda for political gain rather than giving a fuck about the people involved...does the average joe on the street really buy this?....

To be blunt, yes.

This is becoming a big political display more than it's about anyone giving 2 shits about a woman in a vegetative state. This woman has been a vegetable for 15 years--and it is her own fault/doing that she is in that state. 15 YEARS--let it go, let her go. It is sad, but IMO, her parents are being selfish. If her husband wasn't such a fuckwit and if he had any credibility, this issue might've been resolved a long time ago.

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Originally posted by George Smiley Basically, you can go to the Middle East and all over the rest of Asia, and you wont find a single country anywhere in the world where there are as many religious fundamentalists or where the religious intensity is as high. And then they have the fucking nerve to go on about Islamic fundamentalists when to be perfectly fair, the Christian fundamentalist cuunts (that have managed to inflitrate all levels of government) are far far worse...

I agree with you......Americans have to begin to start questioning who exactly is running the show.....is it the 2-4% extra that came out and voted Republican (the 2-4% of extra fundamentalists that is)in the last election and is it really a case of the tail wagging the dog,because the Republicans seem to have gone to extraordinary lengths in this case to appease the religios fundamentalists...anyway it seems like a really dangerous situation if these people can hold the Republicans hostage over any issue they want,because they may also hold the balance of power in the next election.

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Originally posted by zig Does the average American not see this as a joke.....bandwagon politics....the pro life Republicans running an agenda for political gain rather than giving a fuck about the people involved...does the average joe on the street really buy this?....

There are two management teams to the same company.

You figure it out.

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