Life has always been cheap. Look at history and how we have treated life. I think there is a line from Braveheart that said it all: "Arrows cost money. [...] The dead cost nothing."

This is a reflection of the Trump administration's priorities. Nothing matter more to Trump and the Rs than money and power so everything they do is motivated by these obsessions. Couple that with a total deficit of scruples or integrity to restrain their worst instincts and you have a perfect storm of greed, corruption and amorality.

If we need a population adjustment maybe we should adjust the population of the 1% in order to release the hoarded cash they've piled up into the economy. The french proved that the population of the aristocracy can be adjusted fairly quickly when tge people are tired enough of their abuses and excesses.

Senicide has been with us for thousands of years and, sadly, is still practiced in some cultures. It is often framed in terms of resources. Granny becomes a burden, so she's carried up the mountain or put on a floating chunk of ice and left to die. As payouts in wrongful death cases show, our lives have long been monetized.

It's all your fault for not owning an oil company.

No matter what the prize , it's always , let the other guy be the ones to sacrifice , as long as it doesn't affect me adversely .

Trump and his rich masters talking

It's all part of the "I got mine.. Fuck them" ... Multi-Generational attitude. Which happens to sound exactly like the Republican Creed nowadays.

You got it. What America really worships is money, not some god.

A segment of our country - and religious I might add - obviously feels money is more important than the masses.

That capitalism folks, ain't it wonderful when people are a cheap and renewable commodity?

Yes Money is our real god that keeps on giving as long as we print more but devalues all that has been printed before. When are we going to start an economy based upon energy use. We know for the next known period of time (in millions of years) approximately how much energy is bound to reach us from the sun. we dare not burn any more fossil fuels . Changing to being paid in energy units will stop anybody earning too much in whatever circumstance as it all has to be shared out equally from the beginning. We can make all the gold into useful things and some glistening ornaments as it is useless just being buried back in the ground. This is all speculation of course, but have you a better idea?

Religion strikes again..

I still stand in awe of the Greatest Generation. Dan Patrick and that California attorney are deplorable individuals. The strength of a society is determined by how well they care for the weakest members. Those 2 do not understand that because they worship the gawd almighty dollar.

for what it's worth:

I've always thought that many folks from the Greatest Generation seemed somewhat to be missing the extent to which bad philosophy (including, but not limited to, the various religions) and bad thinking and such were pervading US society and undermining the work they had done. As part of this, I also think the Education industry ran amock in some ways. Education can be a good thing, but the system as it stands seems to have contributed to a lot of the bad thinking that we see.

We know who our god is. The fact that we trust in him is printed on all of our money. This also reveals his color.

How has anybody come to believe that government has their best interest
Isn’t statism just another deceptive religion ?

ALL lives are important, far more important than mere money.
The Elder have lived, worked and battled through years and years gaining knowledge as they've gone along,knowledge that IF the younger generations cared to listen to then they too might actually learn something other than what is on a monitor screen in front of them.
No-ones life story is unimportant, no-ones life is unimportant, not even the tramp on the street or the little child in his/her mother's arms.

Welcome to the world of President Death and the Obstructionist republican fascist Death panels!!!

how's anarchy lookin' now?

Sounds like you need to belong to "Out Of The Illusion " and read some articles like "The Senate Has Passed the Largest Corporate Bailout in US History

[truthout."

"Where do we go from here question" is the next to ponder.