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Look every channel I turn on has this feeding tube story in Florida and I simply don't get it. Families fight all the time over these sorts of things and the wacky conservatives are looking to go crazy with this again. If I was braindead, I'd want people to take turns pulling the plug on me....This is not news. There are black kids missing out there but we don't hear about them do we.....And we are going to have a hearing in Congress on a Sunday, not to balance the fu.cking budge, but to debate the merits of a feeding tube for a vegetable in Florida. What has this country come to??? Help me understand this.:sad3:
 

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Vaulted, it's a serious issue. Not sure what it has to do all with missing balck kids. You lost me on that one.
 

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Vaulted, it's a serious issue. Not sure what it has to do all with missing balck kids. You lost me on that one.

The point is how random news stories are. That missing girl in Florida with all the coverage, she's white so she gets covered. I never see one for a black kid. Plus, the point was with so many important things going on and issues, this is not news. Period. Its a personal issue and there I see people picketing outside a hospital for what is a family decision. These people are nuts. These are your "serial Protesters." That's all they do. You will see them at your local abortion clinic next week and at ANWR in 2 weeks.
 

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D2bets said:
Vaulted, it's a serious issue. Not sure what it has to do all with missing balck kids. You lost me on that one.

This topic should probably go in the politics section. Although it's only a political issue because the Republicans made it one by sticking their noses in someone else's personal affairs. How many judges have to order the tube removed before they give up their meddling? To subpoena this poor shell of a human being to come before Congress, that is an absolute travesty. I'm sure they would get a lot of useful testimony out of someone who is legally brain-dead. Whoever came up with that idea should also be starved to death.
 

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edub69 said:
This topic should probably go in the politics section. Although it's only a political issue because the Republicans made it one by sticking their noses in someone else's personal affairs. How many judges have to order the tube removed before they give up their meddling? To subpoena this poor shell of a human being to come before Congress, that is an absolute travesty. I'm sure they would get a lot of useful testimony out of someone who is legally brain-dead. Whoever came up with that idea should also be starved to death.

No it shouldn't go anywhere. If a Burger King thread belongs, this one does too....ANd I really want to understand this. I must be missing something. Please, my Red-State friends, I am ignorant.
 

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It's mainly news because so many idiotic judges & congressmen have pulled her feeding tube, then reinstated it days later, then pulled it again, and put it back in again, and so on. Sooooooo many people have different opinions on this. I am kind of caught in the middle. On one hand I think they should let the girl die like her husband claims she would of wanted in such a situation, but on the other, maybe he should just give in and let her parents, who keep fighting for their daughter's life, take care of her for the rest of her/their life........
 

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Hache,

Who's paying for her care?
Schiavo resides at a nonprofit hospice that has assumed part of the cost of her care. Medicaid pays for the rest. According to this AP story, keeping her alive costs about $80,000 per year, and at least $350,000 of the malpractice settlement awarded to Schiavo and her husband in 1992 has been spent on her care. Florida Medicaid normally offers hospice coverage for those with a life expectancy of no more than six months, but Schiavo has received assistance from the state for the last two years.


Yes our tax dollars at work. Utterly ridiculous.
 

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One thing is certain here....Gov Bush, the Fla legislature and the US Congress have way overstepped their authority. No respect for proper judicial process. Shameful.
 

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Hache,

Who's paying for her care?
Schiavo resides at a nonprofit hospice that has assumed part of the cost of her care. Medicaid pays for the rest. According to this AP story, keeping her alive costs about $80,000 per year, and at least $350,000 of the malpractice settlement awarded to Schiavo and her husband in 1992 has been spent on her care. Florida Medicaid normally offers hospice coverage for those with a life expectancy of no more than six months, but Schiavo has received assistance from the state for the last two years.


Yes our tax dollars at work. Utterly ridiculous.


Well, the doctors say she is brain dead, plain and simple. They claim she will not suffer or feel a thing as time goes by after the feeding tube is/will/or would be removed. I believe most people's problem with this is they think there is a more humane way to end her life, which there is but we all know the "system" isnt going to allow it. I suppose the greatest fear for some is that she truly can feel and is fully aware of whats going on inside of a body that just simply doesn't work........ Man, isnt that an eerie thought......
 

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Meanwhile out of California we have the wonderful story of a Roman Catholic man who was denied a funeral because he was gay and ran a gay night club. This to me is bigger news and deserves more discussion.
 

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