bush to veto childrens healthcare bill

basically his beef with it is that it would expand the program to the point where Americans who now don't qualify for free child health care due to income would. These families aren't uninsured currently and he doesn't want more self insuring Americans attaching themselves to the government nipple.

Expansion is wrong, it's a step towards a socialist America and it's irresponsible for the Democrats to waste time passing a bill they know will be vetoed under the pretense of scoring political points for a future election.

I could have sworn we already had a rather long thread started on this here yesterday.

Ah well

Basically this bill will cost a total per c-span testimony in congress of about what the war in Iraq costs for two weeks.

So fund the war for two weeks ..... Versus insure people get medical care

For the price of the war for two weeks in Iraq I think I'll pick the health care bill.

Where are our priorities in this country?

All the money for the war is being borrowed from foreign governments.

Most of the money to fund this health care bill will come from a 60 cents tax raise on cigarettes. Whats the problem?

Does Bush want to raise taxed on cigarettes and put that money into the war too?

And no this bill does not allow for illegal alien children to be covered.

As a matter of fact now that I think of it , I am sure this thread was on this forum yesterday and that it was a long one with many posts on it fast. Because I was talking with briansol in it.

Where did that thread go?

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Sorry to hear the children will lose. But Bush, needs every dollar he can get to support his plans.Why haven't anyone put this together? He doesn't read any CIA reports he doesn't listen to anyone besides his daddy and Cheanny, who started the course of action. And plan to please our favorites in the middle east.

More money funneled into the war, and those that cannot qualify for healthcare and need it have an option... the military.

Win-win for the good ol military-industrial complex!

Remember kids: cheap, available healthcare is socialist. Socialism is communism. Commies tried to kill us! Therefore it MUST be bad.

Except for the commies in China we seem to like that kind of communist. Or at least we sure do buy their shiney trinkets.

Well, when you say "commie", most people immediately think Russia. Things like the Cuban Missile Crisis have burned that into the minds of many people. Also most people do not understand that the USSR/CCCP was not a true form of Communism as Marx described. What you had in Russia was a 'communist dictatorship', where communism was used to make a class system rather that destroy it.

We like China because their shiny trinkets are made by US companies at 30 cents an hour... much cheaper than paying a hard working American's salary. We also love the fact that they loan us money... and they have loaned us a WHOLE FRIGGIN' LOT of it.

Way to much. They have Bush and us over the flames. The war and contractors making money from it need paying. On and the thousands other pools of money we fund but can't touch.

But most importantly we need to stop embarrassing ourselves with a President who gives humans rights speeches at the UN yet Americans are dying for lack of health care coverage right here at home.

While you take the time to respond to this thread people in the US are dying from preventable causes due to lack of health care . And somebody is mourning their deaths. So think of all those tears when you post.