Speak Compassion

This is a great article that points out how the same logic that supports borrowing billions to go to war is ignored when talking about funding universal healthcare.  It bugs me that we as a society are okay with going into debt to fund wars but don’t have the same feelings about making sure the poorest or sickest can get healthcare when they are ill.  The article points out:

When it comes to putting children’s parents into harm’s way in foreign wars, though, none of those principles apply. I’m not sure if a single conservative who has objected to health care reform on the basis of economic costs or debt has raised any similar objections to paying for wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. This is especially significant because of the relative costs involved — America’s wars in the Middle East don’t just cost far more than even pessimistic estimates of health care reform, but they are likely to cost far more than health care reform is feared to cost over the long term.

It never ceases to amaze me how we can justify somethings with a certain logic but then ignore the same logic to other things…