10-24-2012, 05:20 PM
(10-23-2012, 12:35 AM)ShadowHM Wrote: I am quite worried that this level of spending is not sustainable and the rate of increase in those costs even more so. We, as a society, need to discuss this, but, unfortunately this is a conversation that, thus far, has been impossible to have in this province. Every political party in the last election declined to even mention it.
Another aspect of the 'is this sustainable' question is discussed in this news article in the Toronto Star today:
A wife wants her husband kept alive at all costs
I can't pretend to know how the ethics of this one really should be managed. I do know that, when put in the exact same position as this woman, I made the opposite decision and for the same reasons - I know what my husband would have wanted. I 'know' I did the right thing. She 'knows' she is doing the right thing too. Except that the right thing, in her case, is costing a lot of public money.
Difficult decisions and uncomfortable discussions need to take place in our society.
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake