"In the process of her dying, it cost over $750,000 (in 1988). How many schoolbooks and hot lunches can be bought for poor kids for that same $750,000?"
I think this ignores the false scaricity of resources, however - also overlooks the artificially inflated cost of medical care.
When I say false scarcity of resources, I mean that in this world view, poor people, sick people, children, old people, etc., are all competing for the same tiny pool of resources. In the meantime, on plane built for the purpose of killing foreigners cost many times that amount. "Defense" budgets are the majority of all federal spending - yet those in need of basic services are told there is little to go around.
OTOH, I can see where in a crowded country like India or China that murder and abortion may seem to be a lesser offense than in a wandering desert tribe constantly at risk of extinction. But America does not have a true food or resources crisis - there is a seeming monetary crisis brought about by an inefficient an unfairly slanted system.
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I think this ignores the false scaricity of resources, however - also overlooks the artificially inflated cost of medical care.
When I say false scarcity of resources, I mean that in this world view, poor people, sick people, children, old people, etc., are all competing for the same tiny pool of resources. In the meantime, on plane built for the purpose of killing foreigners cost many times that amount. "Defense" budgets are the majority of all federal spending - yet those in need of basic services are told there is little to go around.
OTOH, I can see where in a crowded country like India or China that murder and abortion may seem to be a lesser offense than in a wandering desert tribe constantly at risk of extinction. But America does not have a true food or resources crisis - there is a seeming monetary crisis brought about by an inefficient an unfairly slanted system.