How much money should the government spend to extend the life of an 80 year old sickly person?

Candy, this storm killed 5 people during the 5 days it lasted in Texas.  During that time, 980 people died in Texas from other causes.  Over the past year, 5 people died because of this storm, while 100,000 died from other causes.  3,000,000 died in Texas from other causes during the past three three decades (about how often such a storm happens), while 5 died from this storm.  Where should we spend our money?

You're made it clear that we should spend more money on winterizing Texas power plants.  What about education spending?  After all, we don't want inner city children to be uneducated.  I read an article about a child being killed by a car in a parking lot.  That's unacceptable and we need more safety training.  Then there's heart disease research, cancer research, vaccine research, airborn illness research, school meal programs, social security payments, sex education, unemployment, food stamps, global warming budgets, improving conditions in prison, free phones for all, subsidized housing for people.  Let's not forget Covid relief payments, of course.  Some granny's die due to summer heat, so we need to spend money to fix that also.  Someone's granny could have been saved if we spent more money on each of these things.

Candy, your argument appears to be is that there is no acceptable level of risk.  Since all risk can never be eliminated, you stance leaves us with a serious fiscal problem.

Actually the death estimate is at least 30 and counting...

But for people who dont care about that (dont ask me why) here is this interesting nugget:

Texas wants Federal money to pay for people's multi-thousand dollar electric bills

Ya got that?   Nevermind they want Socialist Federal dollars for their energy grid that was specifically designed to be disconnected from the Federal grid - they dont want to use that money to upgrade the system and prevent this mess from happening again.   They want to use Federal dollars to pay off the price gouging electric company at the heart of the problem and make sure they get whats owed to them for their awesome service.

Once again its Venezeula and other peoples' money to the rescue for small government conservtives and their corrupt partners

Boiler's utterly idiotic argument is that we can't fix everything, so we shouldn't try to fix anything.

I've always been amused by how conservatives are always so righteously indignant about other people getting federal money but are the first to hold their hands out when a crisis occurs.

The chief financial officer of the Texas electrical company responsible for this disaster was just a couple of days ago on the regular quarterly earnings conference call, and was positively giddy about the "awesome prices" his company was charging. The storm and outages were very, very good for their business!

This sick and twisted state of affairs is what you get when Cowboy Bob elects Republican criminals.

I can't understand how an 11 year old child can freeze to death alone in his bed while the parents survive. At best they should be charged with child abuse and at worst murder. Why they weren't all huddled together under every available covering is a mystery. If the temperature was the same as outside, why didn't they have a fire outside? Burn anything and everything you have to for survival. I understand that they've filed a very large lawsuit for their loss. They should be criminally charged not rewarded for their sons death.

It's actually quite difficult to tell if someone's metabolism has slowed down so much that their life is in danger--unless you're a trained medical professional. Someone freezing to death would exhibit symptoms similar to being in a deep sleep.

Perhaps the parents could have been smarter about how they handled the situation. But they probably had zilch experience at dealing with a power outage in subzero weather. The standard for tort liability is that if Party A puts Party B in a situation that requires expert knowledge to escape, and Party B fails to have or deploy that knowledge and is harmed as a result, Party A is still liable.

It's not unlike if you make a driving error and another driver could have saved the situation with expert driving--but didn't, and there's an accident. You're still liable even though if he'd been completely on the ball, he could have prevented it.

30 deaths in Texas?  I think not.

Okay, now some parents don't understand that people die in the cold.  Is that the best that you can come with Kevin?  I'm sure you also argue that the reason that blacks suck as a group in standardized testing is because they don't have access to life experiences that white kids have.  In Kevin's world, only white parents understand that fire burns and cold freezes.  Black and poor people certainly can't comprehend this.

Oh my.

My previous link says over 30 in Texas.   What link are you looking at?

You're the one performing the idiocy of bringing race into this, not me.

I'm saying that criticism of the child's parents is unjustified. I explained to you why. You don't merit any further discussion, especially when you do moronic shit like introduce race into a topic that has nothing to do with it.

Ignorance is bliss.