I can't imagine a program of this magnitude being approved today. Not only would the Party of No actively work to defeat it, programs like this help average Americans instead of those poor, needy corporations. At what point did the stock market begin to be the only picture of the financial health of a nation?
While I don't personally believe that animals should have the same rights as humans, I also find it more than a little disturbing that the idea that the original owner should be the one to decide when the animal should die, regardless of health status, is apparently considered normal by a lot of people.
Based on the article, the maid who brought him the dog (and didn't tell him she was only a maid and not the dog's owner) was happy the dog could be saved (she was the dog's primary caregiver), and understood completely that the money the family was giving him would go towards the dog's medical care instead. It was essentially the maid that lied in order to save the dog when the family didn't want to, and I'm on her side, that family was cold as ice.
I suppose I'm stating the obvious when I point out that if he'd had a roof over his head and basic services, he might not have contracted HIV in the first place.
It's good that the artist did not fall in to the stereotype of showing a fish head on a date drinking Italian coffee with an Asian woman, because no matter what you may have been told, that is never seen.
Based on the article, the maid who brought him the dog (and didn't tell him she was only a maid and not the dog's owner) was happy the dog could be saved (she was the dog's primary caregiver), and understood completely that the money the family was giving him would go towards the dog's medical care instead. It was essentially the maid that lied in order to save the dog when the family didn't want to, and I'm on her side, that family was cold as ice.