Posted on 10/03/2007 8:45:46 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Wednesday vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years.
Kids pull wagons full of petitions this week asking President Bush not to veto insurance legislation.
Bush exercised the veto at 10 a.m. ET before leaving the White House for a trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to discuss the federal budget and taxes.
Congress sent the legislation expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, to the White House on Tuesday.
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It appears Congress lacks the votes to overturn Bush's veto...... the 265-159 vote on September 25 in the House version is short of the two-thirds majority needed.
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So did I.
Okay! Whatcha smoking today? I splurged and had a Fuente Fuente Opus X yesterday. Man, that’s a lot of smoke for a small cigar, 2 hours to finish it.
What is the State Children’s Health Insurance Program? Isn’t it like Medicare or Medicaid?
Who was the expansion for the bill for anyway, illegal aliens?
Good Grief, you’re one o’ them high-rollers like Limbaugh LOL! My stogies are just cheapjack stuff like Garcia Vegas-a couple ‘o bucks apiece.
BREAKING NEWS:
I tried to post some Capitalist propaganda on Pinch Salzbergers’ NY Times blog regarding this subject...
Here’s a shock, sit down and brace yourselves, none of it got past the editors of TASS or Pravda.
The original legislation required that the funding for this expansion be acquired from a reduction of Medicare/Medicaid payments to doctors and an additional tax on cigarettes. The medicare/medicaid reduction was excluded (AARP roars). So the program would be funded by smokers..who can’t afford to smoke. Go figure.
I’m all for taking care of the kids who are truly in need. But $60 grand a year in my world is pretty rich. Take care of your children. Turn off the internet, no fast food trips, live within your means. Get your own insurance. I’m trying to provide for my family.
President Bush did a good thing with his veto. I hope it will be sustained. This shouldn’t be a political “tool” for the next election.
That’s the real problem with liberals. They’re in permanent 12-years-old mode, real age nonetheless.
Because the adults think it’s more important that they be used as political props.
Well, like I said, I splurged.
Good job President Bush!
there’s a lot of liberal activist homeschooling out there. The movement is very diverse—and it was actually started by libs in the 1960s
Probably the back to nature, survivalist hippies of the 60s.
They all became conservatives when they had to deal with city hall a few times. :>)
Democrats has used a dirty tactic using poor children as part of their propaganda and election tactics. This is a game of populism.
The Families USA outfit, the ones who want us to pay for children’s health insurance, continue to be a good font of information. Here’s a better list of the congresspeople and Senators, tells you where they’re from, etc.
As you may know-the RATS have postponed the attempt at a vetooverride for TWO WEEKS-plenty of time for them to run more kid ads, and claim republicans are baby-rapers, to get them to cave and vote for override.
Boren of Oklahoma, a Republican who had previously voted against SCHIP, has already caved in, now says he’ll vote for it.
Smokers may be a minority. But if we don’t contact our congressional people, they’ll think we don’t exist at all.
http://www.familiesusa.org/bushvskids/how-congress-voted.html
What happens if everyone stops using tobacco?
Every one who has been a smoker gets a lot healthier. Wherever health care is funded by public money, or where we have to pay high premiums for private insurance, the cost of health insurance and related taxes should go down, no matter which party is in office. I say, bring it on.
I don’t know about the rate of lib/con percentages on the exact issues you listed.
However, some years ago I ran across a study on the juvenile delinquency rate of protestant kids vs. catholic kids. The rate was about 25% for protestant, and over 35% for the catholic kids. I know when I was in public school, the catholic kids in my neighborhood were stuffed into classes of 40 and 50 kids, with a nun with a hand smaking ruler handy. Some of these kids were really mean.
Since your measure of quality of life seems to be reduced to dollars and cents and not freedom, how about this? Smokers will live longer and health care costs will be higher.
I say, bring it on.
Collectivist.
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