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http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IRaOBWegbCQ<\/a>\n<\/p>

Anybody who doubts that things are trending this way seems to me to have been paying no attention to how our culture has been dealing with the inconvenient for 35 years. The faster we de-Christianize, the faster this will happen. Only a culture which believes in human dignity that extends to eternity thinks it worth it to spend money on people who will not give a return on the investment in this life. Caring for the old, weak and sick is bad capitalism.<\/p>\n

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