GOP Death Panel in Arizona? Welcome to life under GOP Austerity

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"We all believe in austerity when it comes to spending, yes? Of course we do but please... the people on the margins those on the edge...really? The social net is broken and the poor continue to slip through. Budget cuts in Arizona's legislature resulted in a man leaving a hospital Tuesday after the state Medicaid agency refused to pay for a life-saving liver transplant" says hubpages.


Summary:
The Arizona legislature recently reversed its approval for transplant surgery for 98 low income patients. Now Francisco Felix's family will have to raise $200,000 to pay for a liver -- even though one was already donated by a family member...

But because Felix's family could not raise the money, the family member's donated liver went to someone else (who has medical insurance that pays for transplants) and Felix was sent home to die. Felix, unwittingly, just became one of the first GOP "death panel casualties."

Am I the only one that thinks it ironic that Republicans, many who claim to be pro-lifers, don't give a second thought to pulling the plug on a sick neighbor? You see, according to conservative ideology, we have the right to be born, but we also have the right to die from starvation or disease the minute we are pushed out of the womb. That, in my opinion, is as far as republican compassion extends. They can spend weeks volunteering in a third world nation for their church, but routinely turn away from the suffering and misery that is taking place right here at home.

America, the land of conflicting ethics, morals and sense of duty. It's people -- self serving, cruel and heartless. On one hand, religious fundamentalists want to ban abortion, on the other hand, they want spend trillions to to fund religious wars while Americans go without jobs, food, heat and housing. 

Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning "the war of all against all," is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state of nature thought experiment that he conducts in De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651). Sadly, I must report that modern man has not progressed much beyond Hobbes' original hypothesis.

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