Funniest excuse for why Stem Cell research is bad: People will live longe

[LynneSin]

http://www.newsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060726/OPINION10/607260342/1111/OPINION

Prolonging life of elderly will burden younger people

Through the years I have opposed most of this administration's policies. However, I find myself in agreement with President Bush's veto of the stem cell bill. Bush opposes embryonic stem cell research on moral grounds, knowing the potential benefits that research offers for those with life-threatening illnesses. My agreement is not based on Bush's belief that embryos should be considered life, but whether such research leading to prolonging life can be morally justified to the detriment of our children and grandchildren.

Embryonic stem cell research could be a panacea for the 76 million baby boomers who'll begin retiring in less than four years. This group will put a strain on those who'll support us in our later years. It's estimated there will be less than two workers per retiree when the last of the boomers leave the work force.

Breakthroughs in medical science have allowed humans to enjoy longer lives. If it weren't for the expertise of my doctors and nurses and advanced cardiac procedures, I'd be dead five years now. Boomers can be expected to live well into our 80s and 90s. The question is do we want to live forever at the expense of our descendants?

Without federal funding, stem cell research will continue, although at an abbreviated pace. If research comes to fruition, it might be wise to increase the minimum retirement age to 65, and gradually increase normal retirement to 70 or 75.

XXXX XXXXXX, Wilmington

[LostinVA]

1. Oh my GAWD

[rock]

2. Draft senior citizens!

See, any problem is solvable if just think about it. (Yeah, sarcasm)

[izzie]

9. Like Swift solution to the Irish problem

Always fun to read

[Demit]

3. Funny the writer blames the "expertise of doctors, nurses and advanced

cardiac procedures" and not his own willingness to accept the benefits of them. Especially in view of his thesis about people living too long. Maybe his irony muscle has degenerated. Or else, morelikely, he's thinking of those OTHER people, not him. He's special.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. And . . . allowing people to live longer means that the potential senior

citizens will unreasonably be holding on to jobs that should go to young men and women who REALLY need those positions. Yes, stem cell treatment in the future will ruin our economy by preventing natural attrition . . .

These people make me want to puke!

[rusty charly]

5. tell me this is from "the onion"...

[Mandate My Ass]

6. No, this administration loves dead people

I've heard this sentiment from neocons before. Poor Old people are a burden. :eyes:

[LynneSin]

10. It's from the Wilmington News Journal here in delaware

most of the letters today were for supporting stem cell. I swear they find the boneheaded ones in there just to proove our side is logical thinking

[Olney Blue]

7. With this logic, all research on Alzheimers and cancer should cease too.

[iamahaingttta]

8. This is the crux of the buiscuit...

This is the apostrophe. This is what it's REALLY all about.

I don't believe for one second that George W Bush gives a shit about frozen embryos. I don't believe for a nanosecond that he cares about murder and whether or not a cluster of cells lives or dies. He's responsible for the deaths of countless children in Iraq and it doesn't appear to weigh on his conscience. I do believe that he was selected by the Neo-Con scumbags to be the face and the patsy while they carry out their agenda of global domination.

Part of that agenda appears to be to kill off as many people on the planet as possible. Without getting called on it. All of their actions point to this. Capitalism knows that there are too many people on the planet and a finite amount of resources, and Capitalism knows that EITHER the rich are gonna have to give up some of their stuff and share, or the rich are gonna have to get rid of many "useless eaters." Guess which choice Capitalism is going with! George W Bush as the representative of the Neo-Con Capitalists has personified that choice.

The rest of us would rather fix this overpopulation problem with education, birth control and better choices and opportunities for people. Not these Neo-Cons. There's not much money to be made doing all that. And it means they would have to share. They want as many of us dead as possible so they can have it all for themselves. If the average person lived longer, that would spoil their plans for domination. You can be certain that once they've carried out their agenda of eliminating as many "useless eaters" as possible, that they will jump on the stem cell bandwagon for themselves. And they'll want to live forever because they are all narcissists, every single one of them!

(and the fundie base for whom he signed the veto are just sick and twisted fucks who are totally brain-dead and contradictory in everything that they do. but they pay the bills...)

[zbdent]

11. For those using that argument

Hmm, maybe we could reduce the number of people on the disability dole, hmm?