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/^t/<*>. Of course the government does not perceive the cases like this one and the problem of elderly people discusses only from the financial point of view and taking care of the aged means a loss in the budget. Members of our government do not know what a hunger means so they are not able to understand hungry people. Of course they do not know what homelessness means as they live in huge, comfortable apartments usually with three or four bathrooms. They dare to ask "who will pay for it" but noone dares to ask who pays for their beautiful cars, huge apartments and holidays on Hawaii. The expenditures on arms have been increased three times this year so it seems that the government has got plenty of money but does not want to spend them on the aged. Another and probably the most important argument for the proposal is that refusing care for the aged means breaking the basic human rights. Everyone irrespective of the age and profession has the right to live and if we refuse to take care of the elderly people we will simply let them die.