Is it more important to fund a war than it is to fund children's health care?

Question

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Health care is more important. Every day that man commits another atrocity.

To answer Dadof4's question, there are a lot of people who go without healthcare and often food as well even without a brand new game or entertainment system. It isn't that simple.

Answer 2

Either you don't have children or you do have a genuine reason of asking this ?????.
Children are our heritage so we need there health to be in tip top condition. However they do receive a certain amount from the government. It's not the cost that hurts. but the on going diseases that we contact from others who actually bring it into this country.

Person or persons from outside this country who immigrate or take holidays, are potential carriers.
Technology is another, and children do not excersie enough.
Our children are more prone to picking up diseases in this century.

As for the question regarding funding war.Safety is our best policy at all times.What and How the government spend the funds for the safety of your country is and will never be enough.
So what do you do??? Children are more important, their health issue is of the utmost, Otherwise who do you have to protect the country and they are your best assest are they not.????

Answer 3

No.
It is more important to fund children health care than a war

Answer 4

What you are missing Don, although I am sure that your question is rhetorical, and you know the answer better than me, is war is, was, and always will be made for the benefit of the immensely wealthy, the few hundred 'movers and shakers' of the planets real 'capital'.

These people 'know' everything, and are aware that there never has been any 'justification' for any war .... ever. They always give us just the same old poop, scooped up and doled out by a media which is controlled by the same 'usual suspects', to a 'public' that has been kept fully 'tenderised' by fear and propaganda by the same media on a constant basis. Just look at some of the answers your question has elicited so far.

The formula is always roughly the same, the players are always the same, the results are always the same. The United States of America, the world's richest nation, the world's richest economy, has invaded over 50 sovereign nations since the end of WW II, that's right, in a little over 60 years, that's almost one per year on average !

This same United States that still doesn't have a National Health Service, not even National Child Health Care, as you state.

The numbers speak for themselves, war is the most profitable social 'condition' that has ever been devised, constant, high-level, 'leading-edge' technology production at astronomic costs, all the results of which are sent out to be destroyed as quickly and inefficiently as possible, resulting in more production requirements.

Who cares about child health care and education when the only motivation is to provide 'cannon-fodder' for the wars ?

It's not you who's missing anything, Don, it's Mr and Mrs Joe Public who need to wake up and count the concealed body-bags, and the 'gain' that has been earned at such cost, i.e. zero !

I was in the USA last month for a few weeks and amongst many things I saw fleets of trucks carrying food for the 'Needy', I started thinking ... the 'Needy' ??? Which 'Needy', where ?

It was for the 'Needy' of the USA, yes, the richest country in the world has 'Needy' people, actually millions of them.

Where are the billions upon countless billions of dollars for the 'Needy' ? Where is the 'Shock and Awe' bombardment of the 'Needy' with the basic survival stuff that they are 'Needy' for ???

Where were the 'Cavalry' galloping to the rescue of New Orleans when it was under attack from the forces of 'nature' ? Still today the whole city is still in upheaval, after all the fine words, and bogus appearances of the 'marionettes' have been ( literally ) installed to appear to be some form of 'democratic government'. To give the dissemblance of 'representation of the people, by the people, for the people'.

What ? WHAT ???

I apologise for the rant, but people, when are you going to wake up and learn from the past, deal with the present and prepare for the future ???

And don't give me that 'patriotic,' Rambo-style, crap, I have had a 40 year love affair going with the USA and the wonderful majority of her people that I have met in all those years, I am not a 'hater' of the US, quite the contrary, I listen to American Pie and get misty-eyed with the best of you.

I fear for the future that may unfold if the great Heart of America doesn't wake up soon.

Let it be soon.

{{{{{{{Cosmic Health}}}}}}}

Answer 5

I am so weary of war. The human race really has to learn how to communicate and compromise and understand different cultures and ideology.

Children's health care is more important. So is education, taking care of the poor and indigent, and research funding. Maybe one day it will happen. I can only hope ...

Answer 6

Honestly, it all depends......
Who is the war against? Why? What are the risks? What are the potential benefits?
If they asked that question before WWII, I would hope they would have said that funding the war was more important. Otherwise we might all be murderous Nazis. Not something to be desired.
The question is too simplistic to answer in a vacuum.

Answer 7

My thought on this is that whether or not anyone agrees with the war being fought in Iraq, taking military action, funding the military, and other such national security measures are the responsibility of the Federal government. Providing health care is not a function of the federal government and therefore your question is not logical.

Answer 8

Children our our future! Anyone cold hearted and mean-spirited enough to not to care enough to fund health care for children and in favor of sending our country's youth in harms way is not someone I would care to know.

Answer 9

i think the health care is better because in war nothing can come out of it but violence and is that what you want war everywhere i think that we should fund for children's heath care and remember children's are the tommorows citizen. but if your American then health care for sure because i live in canada and free health care is sweet

Answer 10

Honestly, you know that every state care more for their state rather than their children. That's why the reality speaks in itself that it is more important for them to fund a war. Hence all war is good, despite the vulgar pettiness of its causes in modern times. A good war halloweth any cause.

Great question. Thanks for asking, Don.