We can't afford it. Some people like Michael Moore say that we should just divert funding for the war toward Socialized Medicine, but the fact of the matter is is that we can't afford the war either. We are already borrowing money to finance a lot of the dumb programs already in place. Government spending is out of control, and we need to exercise budget restraint now, not consider new areas to increase spending.
#82, where on Earth did you start thinking that Human life had such value in the West? White folk have invented the most astounding and "conlific" forms of mass murder ever devised. Underneath all those court battles, the cultural statement is clear: who gives a fuck if you live or die.
Cultivating Human capital is just a concept around here. Hidden again within it is the concept of CLASS. Sure, the Human capital that's White, has the right last name, has lots of money and connections ... yeh, THAT GUY is deemed valuable and worth saving no matter what happens to him. But start accumulating worthless characteristics like Blackness, poorness, and familial disenfranchisement, and you end up in the Human trash heap.
You really aren't addressing your comment to me. Try instead talking to one of these fucking Hypercapitalists with your notions of "Human capital". They'll probably regale you with carefully constructed stories about using overseas labor. Once you start talking about the domestic natives, his smile will disappear and he'll place a quick call to building security to get your "pinko commie union leftie" ass out of his sight. Those won't be my words, BTW; those will be his. That's what his class of person thinks about the "rest of us". 99.9% of us are just scum to guys like that.
{snort} Human capital. What a laugh.
As for the treadmill ... clearly you've unwarrantedly discounted the fact that using a treadmill is work. That is sits there does bother you, but that feeling can be suppressed with another beer and a night of football on the boob tube.