What is amazing is that any person would bicker over this who lives in a country with a 2.6 Trillion dollar budget for 2006.
What is even more astonishing is that most folks don't even know how our system works in regards to taxation, allocation, budget, etc.
Yet so many sound so quick to assume that the money "wasted" on saving lives (or attempting to save lives) could be used better elsewhere.
What compounds my disgust is that the majority of Americans are in financial debt themselves or else they are living paycheck to paycheck. And they presume to know how the country should spend its money? The arrogance and the cold-heartedness is so overwhelming that it is impossible to comprehend.