No one here at FR would give up their Social Security check, I'll wager. Even we've gotten comfortable with the government regulating our money and our lives for us.
I am very, very pessimistic about not only the 2008 election (I've written off the Repubs already), but--
I'll just avoid all the silly posts about "bringing us down" and "quitting," which is what one gets from the those wearing rose-tinted glasses around here. You get the gist.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The President will not veto this as it is a piece of the immigration bill being “spoon fed” to us.
With Ted Kennedy! How many cents is $35 BILLION?
Yes, probably veto bait..but from an implementation side...a fraud. Where are the docs and the Rns? No new med schools, fixed production of docs, J-1 visa docs very limited. Several hundred thousand nurses short over the next 20 years. One fourth of physicians in general are over 55years of age. HHS did study in NY in 1999. In 2000 it cut all specialty physician residency slots nationwide by 25%. In some surgical subspecialties, reimburstments from the govt programs are an 80% discount from normal fees...docs running from them now, retirements are accelerated. Importation of foreign docs has slowed..rest of world resisting loss of their docs..lots of foreign docs in this country cannot get state licenses....go to a restaurant without a waiter or waitress...no food, same with medical care...either party is essentially offering at great cost a vending medical healthcare system with long lines..WIsconsin recently adopted the Dim version of the Rep version of (Romneys) in Mass...in WIs the cost of the plan is $3 bil more than the entire tax base collections....eom
You could see their power in the first, SR 1639 cloture vote. We saw many Senators thought solid... turn to mush before our eyes. It was only the deluge of phone calls, emails and letters that brought them to their senses before the second vote.
The nomination of a Rudy McRomney in 2008 would signify the high water mark for this RINO coup.
Uh perhaps because people kept voting for their sorry hides each and every time they were up for re-election because Da Boogieman might get in office otherwise? Well the lesser of the two evils vote liberal also. Bush will not VETO this bill. Bush has been a supporter of this very thing since 1999. Actually he complimented a fellow RINO Friend of his who nearly bankrupted our state over this very issue.
Excerpted from a Bush 2000 press release.
Re-elected to a second term last year with a record 69 percent of the vote, Governor Sundquist has initiated unprecedented reforms in Tennessee in the areas of welfare, government and crime, while placing a special emphasis on Tennessee children. Under his watch, the growth of government spending has been cut by more than half; the number of employable adults on welfare has been reduced by 60 percent; and Tennessee became the first state in the nation to connect every public school and library to the Internet and to offer universal health care coverage to all children.
amother backdoor by the lib/dems and no cajone republicans to give amnesty and all benefits to illegals...
no way jorge bush will veto this piece of crappola!!!
When have we stepped back from our slide into socialism? We are constantly expanding our government health care to include more and more coverage for children, the poor, and the helpless. We are teaching our children that they are entitled to more pay, free health care, free food. The Marxist Democrats will not be happy until we are like Cuba or Communist China.
Ping, Here we go......
Time to break out the T-Shirts:
Congress needs you to start smoking
I smoke for the Children
Please smoke - Kids need Medicine
Smoke “It’s for the Children”
There is something very sinister about targeting the children of America as a Trojan Horse way of forcing through Socialism.
SEND A MESSAGE TO THE WHITE HOUSE: VETO THIS BILL.
DEMAND EACH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO PUBLICLY OPPOSE THIS BILL.
WRITE LETTERS TO EDITOR - THIS IS CREEPING SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS BAD ENOUGH, BUT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IS GOING WAY TOO FAR!
MORE BAD BILLS FROM A TERRIBLE CONGRESS:
“Either way, Pelosi’s energy legislation deserves to sink. It contains a multibillion-dollar tax increase, authorizes billions in new spending, and opens up taxpayer wallets to lawsuits over the government’s inability to meet its own global-warming goals. The nation’s energy needs are best met when Congress keeps its hands off the market.”