re: #221 TNChuckster

Neither side proposed the reasonable cuts I agree need to be made. Considering the crisis over proposed cuts compared to the cuts that need to be made, neither side is willing to approach the level needed.

No, you’re still not getting it. That the cuts were objected to doesn’t mean that greater cuts wouldn’t be possible; the objections were to those cuts in particular.

Take planned parenthood. PP is very good at what it does— which is mostly womens health, including cancer screening and giving out contraceptives. If we stopped subsidizing them, and they were not able to make up that cost, the government would lose money in all sorts of ways. More pregnancies means more use of the medical system, often by people with no insurance. No cancer screening means that cancer isn’t caught early, and instead has to be attacked when it’s most expensive to do so. Veneral disease takes hospital time and resources, as well.

So, if you ‘cut costs’ by cutting PP funding, you’re actually raising costs.

Yeah, I don’t know you well enough to be insulting you.

Then don’t.