Originally posted by: Boilerman
I've asked Kevin how many deaths are worth it to keep our economy going. He tells us none. As if no jobs creates food. As if no money leads to hope. As if no jobs lead to cars. Wealth creation leads to jobs, to money, to roofs and to food. Excessive borrowing eventually leads to long term sorrow.
I told you that I'm not entitled to say who lives or dies, and YOU sure as sweet holy motherfuck aren't. Debt is preferable to death. The former can be fixed. The latter can't.
The trouble, Boilerboob, is that you speak of these "necessary additional deaths" (to quote several Republicans) as abstractions. In actual life, they are intensely real and personal. I see them that way even if it's a person who lives thousands of miles away and I've never met. You seem them as "a death."
The slowing down of the economy doesn't have to be permanent or even long-term. We'll have a bad year. Jesus Christ, isn't that tolerable if it saves several hundred thousand lives?
