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Comparing feeding tubes and respirators is like comparing jet skis and ocean liners ..we are missing two KEY differences here. This child had no chance whatsoever to live and had NEVER been fully functioning without extraordinary means. Ms. Schiavo is in full control of her respirations and has been for 15 years. Secondly, Ms. Schiavo is not sucking down public money. Tax payer money taken by the Imperial Federal Government by force. This child's mother was poor and that is sad and awful, her grief is real and no less than that of the Schindlers. But unfortunately, for 5 months this child was supported by the government and ultimately he who has the gold makes the rules. The Bush's should not be singled out for ridicule on this matter. Our entire governmental system encourages people who have always been on public assistance to remain poor and those of us who are sick of extreme taxation are labled as "mean" for stating that fact. The system is the problem and the Bush family for all it's power can do nothing to change it until enough Americans get pissed off enough to re-structure the whole darn thing. I am saddened by this case just as much as that of Ms. Schiavo. Truly, in THIS case the mistake may have been to introduce the extraordinary means at all.

 

posted by hcrfit on March 31, 2005 at 9:50 AM | link to this | reply

It's Amazing...

...they can keep a straight face!

Thanks for stopping by.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on March 30, 2005 at 6:57 AM | link to this | reply

Wow, I just now saw this Damon. Stated much more eloquently and personally than what I wrote, but still doesn't hurt to remind others of the outrageous hypocrisy that is this family and administration. Thanks for sharing.

posted by katray4 on March 30, 2005 at 6:29 AM | link to this | reply

Well, death has its time and place, like all things --

the question is must we bring that time and place as close to the present as possible?

Or do we delay it as long as seems reasonable and ethical?

Some are in far too much of a hurry to get rid of those who are not seen as having worthwhile lives or are a "burden". 

posted by Dylan24 on March 27, 2005 at 11:49 AM | link to this | reply

Ciel...

...yes, there is this. And then there's "Thou shalt not kill" set against the war-mongers who pose as Christians.

Hypocrisy wherever we look!

Thanks for reading.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on March 27, 2005 at 4:37 AM | link to this | reply

I've long been agog with a sort of wonder at the difference

between the American/Christian horror of death, and the most essential message of Christ:  that we need not fear death. 

posted by Ciel on March 27, 2005 at 3:52 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks...

...for all the comments, folks.

I see nothing here to suggest there's anything but hypocrisy around this issue.

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posted by DamonLeigh on March 27, 2005 at 3:36 AM | link to this | reply

lol

posted by Dylan24 on March 26, 2005 at 1:07 PM | link to this | reply

I've made a good and important point?

Shit, I had no idea my drug supply was depleted.  Gotta run....

posted by mark2556 on March 26, 2005 at 11:48 AM | link to this | reply

Mark2556 makes a good and important point --

Schiavo's parents, according to the news, "begged" Governor Bush to "do something."

Maybe they are not right in their wish to keep feeding their vegetative daughter, but they and those who support them in their wishes are mostly doing it for the right reasons.

(I'm assuming that; I don't know it for sure.)

I did not know about that Texas law.  If the facts are as laid out here, then shame on Bush and those who made that law, because it is an anti-life law.

It is part of the broad problem of inadequate medicine in a country that can easily afford to medically care for everyone.

President Clinton was the most progressive president this country had had since Franklin Roosevelt.  He tried to establish universal health care.

Senator Bob Dole, then head of the Senate, agreed broadly with that goal.

Then the radical-right's campaign just massacred the plan -- joined by ideologues and for-profit health care concerns such as insurance companies and pharmaceutical firms.

I just wrote in another comment that too many of those opposed to abortion (I'm one of them) care a lot more for babies in the womb than children after birth. 

This case you post about today is a -- forgive the trite description -- a tragic example.

posted by Dylan24 on March 26, 2005 at 11:37 AM | link to this | reply

Good contrast between the two situations, it does make you question what the real agenda is.

posted by DarrkeThoughts on March 26, 2005 at 7:03 AM | link to this | reply

Damon ~  As a Florida denizen, I can tell you that the Bush brothers have had this situation rammed down their throats by the Shiavo parents...this has been going on for nearly a year here.  The parents launched a campaign to use every politcal and judicial means possible to keep this woman alive, and legislators, regardless of their motivation, have to respond given the fevered-pitch level it's attained.  Actually, both Bushes stayed away from it until very recently.

It's not a Bush thing.  It's a parents thing. 

posted by mark2556 on March 26, 2005 at 7:01 AM | link to this | reply