So while watching TV this morning (yes, yet another day at home for me, just enjoying life around the house, and specifically, around my toilet. Lucky me.), I saw that the House and Senate had both passed a bill increasing the number of poor children eliglble for government help in getting medical coverage by 4 million kids, at a cost over 5 years of 60 billions dollars.And Bushie assures us all that he'll veto it, as it's way too expensive.
Course, he did just recently ask Congress for $150 billion dollars right now, in ADDITION to all the other money they've alloted to him and his war. I suppose with all the money needed to go to Iraq to disappear or fall in the coffers of Halliburton, there really is no money left over for 4 million poor un-insured American kids.
But, hey, let's remember, thanks to Bushie's "No Rich Child Left Behind" thingamabob, "Childrens do learn", and that's a direct quote from our the always elloquant Mr. Bush.
Too bad they didn't have that program when he was in school, maybe he'd have been one of the 'childrens' who learned how to speak correct English.
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3 comments:
That picture makes me sick. Bush does not care about children, especially not kids of color. What a farce.
Onanite
If only one of the children in that photo had thrust a dagger into Bush's belly!
That being said, of course he doesn't give a rats ass for anything but his own ass.
That's what this is all about, securing his future and those of his friends who happen to be the Enron, Halliburton, et al crowd.
This is what happens when politics are corrupted by corporations.
That Bush would veto money for S-CHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Plan) is ridiculous. It has bi-partisan support, for goodness sake! Even members of his own party have criticized this decision of his. Some Republicans have chosen to go with the President and vote against S-CHIP just to be loyal. I hope their constituents toss them out on their asses next election. (Which is exactly what the RNC fears will happen.)
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