How Much Money Will Be Saved By Euthanasia?

How much money will cash-strapped Tasmania save by legalising euthanasia?

The cash-strapped Tasmanian Parliament has raised the legalised euthanasia option, as it seeks ways to fix its state budget black hole.

Is the issue of the budget crisis related to the euthanasia debate? You be the judge.

In the face of the global economic collapse, governments have poured trillions of public funds into propping up the bankrupt private banking systems, leaving huge shortfalls in their budgets for essential services.

In Australia, the Rudd government has targeted the elderly as too expensive, by raising the pension age to 67; in the U.S., the Obama administration has targeted the elderly and the sick, with Nazi policies to save money on health care, including euthanasia.

Dr Ezekiel Emanuel, special health care adviser to Obama’s Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag, and brother of Obama’s chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel, writing in the Huffington Post in October 2008 seized on the huge cost of the bank bailouts being rammed through the Congress to foreshadow savage health care cuts: “...The huge increase in the federal debt that these bailouts will entail intensifies the pressure to rein in healthcare costs,” he wrote.

For Emanuel, this was something for which he has long prepared: In 1998 he co-wrote a paper with Margaret Pabst Battin entitled, “What Are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?”

His co-author Battin has devoted her professional career to pushing this revival of Hitlerian health care reform. Her works include, “Should Medical Care be Rationed by Age?” (1987), “Choosing the Time to Die: The Ethics and Economics of Suicide in Old Age” (1987), “Is there a Place for Euthanasia in America’s Care for the Elderly?” (1996).

American statesman Lyndon LaRouche is leading the opposition to Obama’s health care reforms, charging it is the same as Hitler’s 1st September, 1939 Euthanasia Decree, entitled “The Destruction of Lives Unworthy of Life”, which read: “Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are charged with the responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians, to be designated by name, to the end that patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, can be accorded a mercy death.”

Earlier, Hitler had told his Secretary of Health and State Secretary that through euthanasia, “a certain saving in hospitals, doctors, and nursing personnel could be brought about.”

Ezekiel Emanuel’s boss, OMB director Peter Orszag, is one of the leaders of the gang of kooky “behaviourist economists” who’ve hijacked Obama’s policy response to the economic crisis; the same behavioural economics, which applies behavioural psychology to economic policy, to manipulate the “irrational” masses to accept certain outcomes, has been picked up by economic agencies in Australia, including the Productivity Commission, which spearheads all the major new economic “reforms” planned for the Australian economy.

Now, the Greens, who introduced the euthanasia bill into the Tasmanian parliament, yet again are pushing one of their typically anti-human issues—derived from their philosophy that the world is overpopulated and that therefore most humans are “unworthy of life”—as a front for an evil cost-cutting agenda, which will save money on health care, that can be used to prop up the banks.

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