"A Duty to Die"

A former Colorado governor once said, “elderly people have a duty to die” to make room for younger people coming up (paraphrased). Not true. The elderly have lived long enough to have seen it all before, and can reliably predict its happening again. They are a “valuable resource” younger people don’t seem smart enough to realize exists in this country. Especially our current politicians, who seem to think they are “the smartest people in the world,” and blame others (never themselves) for their shortcomings. “One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have ‘a duty to die,’ rather than become a burden to others. This is more than just an idea discussed around a seminar table. Already the government-run medical system in Britain is restricting what medications or treatments it will authorize for the elderly. Moreover, it seems almost certain that similar attempts to contain runaway costs will lead to similar policies when American medical care is taken over by the government.” And if you don’t think that will happen here, you aren’t very smart, yourself. People in government think they are “the smartest people in the world.” If older people ARE “a burden” to their programs, they aren’t above denying them medicine they need to stay alive, which condemns them to death. (Thomas Sowell/Atlasphere)