The Bush administration's latest foray into penurious cost-consciousness is reflected in an article in today's San Diego Union Tribune, titled: "White House may put less value on seniors, disabled." The story tells how the Bush OMB director is encouraging new guidelines that would place more value on "younger, healthier" people and less on the elderly and the disabled. This is to allow federal regulators to reestimate the societal cost of any proposed regulation. If, for example, a new pollution requirement would mainly enhance the life of someone estimated to only have 10 years to live, then that regulation could be deemed too expensive. It was bad enough under the original proposals, when senior citizens were involved; now people with disabilities have been thrown into the calculations. For a pro-life administration, this smacks loudly of the Nazi "life unworthy of living" regulations. According to the article: "Critics insist that Graham also wants agencies to give less weight to people with a questionable "quality of life," presumably those who are disabled or ill."'Once government puts itself in the position of saying, 'We're going to give more support to policies that care for young people,' you're basically saying old people and the sick and disabled – it's not cost-effective to save them anymore,' said Wesley Warren, an environmental economist for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a former associate director of the Office of Management and Budget where Graham works."Scary stuff... All you pro-lifers out there, get off your butts and get on YOUR administration to put a halt to this policy!