[tips up]

Long live the nanny state...

[Viking2002]

The older I get, the more I pray that God's Wrath strikes these vermin in the most terminal way possible. Or, at least, let them be so bold as to become Starters Of Shit in my back yard.

[goldstategop]

Socialism is about selfishness for one generation. The children be damned! The reason Europe is NOT reproducing its too expensive to have children to work to pay for it. Its work out so well Europe is dying out because of the perverse incentives generated by the modern welfare state. Even if we could afford it, the last thing we should do is leave our children stuck with the tab of our own selfishness. Yet its precisely the argument Republican politicians are afraid to make: we must think of the welfare of future generations to come.

"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

[Vision Thing]

In this article, Steyn tells us that the real war on children is being waged not by the Republicans who refuse to make more kids “wards of the Nanny State”. Instead, the real war on children is being waged by the libs who want to pass the costs of their selfishness on to our children’s generation.

[Baladas]

The left is going have to realize that I’m going to tune them out about every time with regards to these phony concerns about “the children”. They all like abortion far too much.

[Alex Murphy]

I'm not sure I follow the argument here: President Bush wants to breed a generation of sickly uninsured children in order to send them to Iraq to stagger round the Sunni Triangle, weak and spindly and emaciated and rickets-stricken, to get their heads blown off? Is that the gist of it?

Nailed it in one.

[Gritty]

[jcon40]

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Republican Presidential Canidate that could think and articulate things as well as Steyn?

[Intolerant in NJ]

Stark hit all the buzz words – "children," "illegal war," "$200 billion," "lies," etc. – and these days they're pretty much like modular furniture: You can say 'em in any order, and you'll still get a cheer from the crowd...exactly so - sort of like words and little phrases recorded on a CD - hit the random play button as many times as needed and no matter how they come out the left thinks they've heard the truth from on high......

[xzins]

Excellent article.

However, the absolute worst part of the real war on children is the 50 million who have been murdered in the womb since 1973.

Add to that the burden highlighted by this article and it is obvious that the DemocRat Party hates children.

[hershey]

The real war on children is abortion.

[Puzzleman]

And so, in a democratic system today's electors vote to keep the government gravy coming and leave it to tomorrow for "the children" to worry about. That's the real "war on children" – and every time you add a new entitlement to the budget you make it less and less likely they'll win it.

Well said!

[NicknamedBob]

"A couple of weeks ago, the Democrats put up a 12-year-old SCHIP beneficiary from Baltimore, Graeme Frost, to deliver their official response to the President's Saturday-morning radio address. And immediately afterwards Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and I jumped the sick kid in a dark alley and beat him to a pulp. Or so you'd have thought from the press coverage ..."

Not only does his rapier wit have great reach, it is spot on target.

"I'm in favor of tax credits for child health care, and Health Savings Accounts for adults, and any other reform that emphasizes the citizen's responsibility to himself and his dependants. But middle-class entitlement creep would be wrong even if was affordable, even if Bill Gates wrote a check to cover it every month: it turns free-born citizens into enervated wards of the Nanny State."

It needs to be emphasized that Medical Savings Accounts have to carry over from one year to the next or they won't be utilized. Current plans are "use it or lose it," which often equates to "lose it."

[kellynla]

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke

[magellan]

This gem from Steyn's article"

[The Frost's] have ... three vehicles – a new Chevy Suburban, a Volvo SUV, and a Ford F-250 pickup.

[Vinomori]

bttt