But it clanks like Health Care never did

The HuffPo has a post of Ryan Grim's look at one of President Obama's next big decisions. This one will encompass the future of our country's nuclear weapons. One thing he notices is that the well being of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems are much less controversial than the welfare of American citizens.

The lead story in Saturday's Washington Post, about the nuclear weapons decisions facing President Obama, runs longer than 1,300 words, but five a reader won't find are "cost," "dollars," "money," "debt," or "deficit." A reader would also search in vain for any talk of a "fiscal crisis" or a need to balance nuclear weapons priorities with available revenues.

That same reader, of course, rarely has to venture past the first sentence of a health care reform story to find that the subject is a "trillion dollar overhaul." Occasionally, it's noted that the trillion dollars is spread over ten years...

...The Post reports that Obama's aides will recommend to him that all three ways to destroy the old Soviet Union be kept in place. The amount that could be saved by cutting any of the three is likely much higher than the two largest ways Obama has identified to pay for health care reform: an excise tax on high-cost premiums that unions and the middle class loathes and cuts to Medicare Advantage, which have seniors frightened.

Because there is more value in the ways and means to destroy people by the countryfull than in any plan to actually save lives. More profit, too.