Posted on 10/21/2007 7:55:47 AM PDT by milwguy
On Thursday, Congress attempted to override President Bush's veto of the SCHIP expansion. SCHIP? Isn't that something to do with health care for children? Absolutely. And here is Bay Area Democratic Rep. Pete Stark addressing the issue with his customary forensic incisiveness:
"The Republicans are worried that they can't pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don't care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq.
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? No matter, Congressman 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. As Gerald Ford likes to say when trying to ingratiate himself with conservative audiences, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have." But there's an intermediate stage: A government big enough to give you everything you want isn't big enough to get you to give any of it back. As I point out in my book, nothing makes a citizen more selfish than socially equitable communitarianism: Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of Euro-style entitlements, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and who cares if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence?
That's the real "war on children": in Europe, it's killing their future. Don't make the same mistake here.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Spot on. Too bad Dems are nothing but children (i.e., Mr and Mrs Frost).
Boy, does that say it all, or what??? That is the absolute truth. I have to sent this one to my mother-in-law in Germany. She's an American living over there with all of the German benefits and all she does is tell us how bad we have it here...sheesh!
Please stop placing your name in place of the author’s.
I lived long enough in Germany to see the post-war generation in West Germany become accustomed to their luxuries and to pain their parents by refusing to have children. But at least they care enough for their parents not to dump them on the state; the upcoming generation doesn't even think about THEIR parents. Those who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Another OUTSTANDING Mark (the man is amazing) Steyn article. Thanks for posting.
How they make that arithmetic add up is between them and their accountant. But here's the point: The Frosts are not emblematic of the health care needs of America so much as they are of the delusion of the broader Western world. They expect to be able to work "part-time" and "intermittently" but own two properties and three premium vehicles and have the state pick up health care costs
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worth repeating ... rolling back any of this stuff is going to be darned near impossible short of generational warfare. Perhaps in another 120 years, whatever will pass for Congress then will be passing a resolution condemning the day the old folk were exterminated in order to restore fiscal sanity.
SCHIP is another promised entitlement that sounds like a good thing. We can protect the uninsured children with health care at taxpayer expense. But can we really afford to expand the program to cover everyone's children like Social Security tries to cover everyone's retirement?
The Frosts are a perfect example of how expanding the program can take perfectly capable, well educated, young people out of the workforce. Both parents are college graduates capable of making much more than they are currently earning. He is able to maintain his business without concern about insuring himself or his employees and without growing his income level because his kids are already getting a private school education and have a good insurance plan. She is able to work a low paying part-time job with no benefits. They have no need to work harder because the taxpayer has become a third income source to support their current lifestyle.
Can we afford to encourage this behavior by expanding this program? Not for long.
Someone apparently missed the story about President Ford's death last winter. It was on all the TV news channels.
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