Posted on 10/01/2007 5:57:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
Welfare: Democrats shamelessly exploit an injured 12-year-old to promote expanding insurance to those who already have it. Meanwhile, Sen. Schumer defends a program that taxes the poor to give to the well-off.
President Bush hates kids. To convince America that this is true, and that their proposed expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, is justified, the Democrats turned their weekly radio response to President Bush over to Graeme Frost, who was badly injured in a family car accident.
Having benefited from the existing program, young Mr. Frost told a nationwide radio audience: "I don't know why President Bush wants to stop kids who really need help from getting CHIP."
Our hearts go out to this child and others in similar situations. But the fact is that President Bush wants no such thing. What he wants is to help those who genuinely need help, like Graeme Frost, not to subsidize those who don't.
On "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Chuck Shumer, D-N.Y., said fears that offering government insurance to those who have private coverage will cause them to drop it "is not a good reason to tell 9 million children in America who are not covered that they can't get coverage."
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There is no depth to which Dimocraps will not descend. Everytime we think they’ve hit a new bottom, they find another.
“program that taxes the poor to give to the well-off”
Per-xactly! Don’t know why those numb-nutted Republicans in DC can’t employ such a succinct phrase in the SCHIP sound-bite wars. Have read that NY & NJ are proposing to expand the federal funding to cover families earning 3 or 4 times the official poverty level!
Why should my taxes go go give free health care to the summer-cottage-owning Jersey-ites who rip up my dad’s hayfields with their SUVs and ATVs?
But I wouldn't, they can all kiss my butt while the Libs making $82,000 a year take advantage of it.
Socialist's.
The late TV personality in Houston Marvin Zindler said, “It’s hell to be poor.”
That's exactly right. The Dims continuously claim to be helping "the poor" by raising taxes on alcohol and tobacco. They pretend that "the poor" don't drink and smoke.
I wonder how many of "the poor" are "poor" because they drink and smoke too much.
Did I come across as that? We are not poor, we get by without any handouts even living here in a state like Connecticut where the taxes are so high.
Unfortunately, this “SCHIP” works with the voters.
I heard this on Saturday, and I am sure my wife was staring at me as my eyes bugged out listening.
They use the standard liberal tactic of trying to immunize the liberal message by encapsulating it in a package that cannot be attached.
Think Max Cleland...now, I never had any disrespect for him, but once he began to use his status as a wounded veteran to gain cachet in the liberal world, it was fair to ask him “And how did you get wounded, Mr. Cleland?”
To give him some credit, he never came out and tried to ride that war vehicle directly on his own, but he was extremely willing to let others do it in his place.
Now, they use 12 year olds.
Please, I intended no offense to you.
FWIW I am a retired navyman. I never earned more than $40K a year. But I AM NOT poor either. I just think that $80K a year is a darn good salary! And I read that some states are going for $100K a year is poor.
"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
Wall Street Journal had another good editorial on this subject. Several articles as a matter of fact. Having gov’t supplied “coverage” is not the same thing as actually being able to get treatment. Medicaid and Medicare make reimbursements to physicians and hospitals so low and red tape so high that doctors simply can’t make a living treating many such patients. They have to limit how many they see or simply opt out altogether. Arnold’s California is one of the worst in that regard. Finding a specialist who takes Medi-Cal is all but impossible in some areas.
Expanding that sort of “coverage” will only make it worse.
I agree, that is good money. The Dem's (And some Pubs) are out of touch with reality, just another wasteful tax levied by Congress.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Repub equivalent commercials. But you can count on seeing that kid another million times. They don’t call it the stupid party for nothing. He’s the one that was with Reid in that other clip, right?
Of COURSE it will, if there aren’t opposing commercials. Everybody wants something for free.
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