NO CHILD LEFT ALIVE?
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political Activist
For six years, George Bush and the Republican Congress had spent American taxpayer monies to the tune of $9.3 trillion dollars to date–most of it going to tax cuts for the rich and the wars in Iraq, and Afghanistan.
For six years, Bush had vetoed not one spending bill proffered by the GOP.
But suddenly, Bush is flip-flopping on his 2004 promise to expand a children’s health insurance coverage plan; known as SCHIP–in an effort to diplace millions more poor children whom otherwise can't receive coverage otherwise outside the current program.
The President is claiming that the program overreaches into the middle-class–and has become too expensive to maintain.
He claims that Democrats are just in it for the political points, but many of his own party whom support the program openly are dismayed that the President would go against himself and his promise to help expand and continue funding a much needed program for the poor.
A program that currently helps 6.6 million children get the care that they need.
Ironically, Bush just sent Congress legislation demanding that he gets additional money for the wars in the Middle East–totaling upwards of $245B.
But to spend an additional $35B over the next 5 years to keep those 6.6 million kids from getting sick or worse–when we spend on average $120B to $130B a year in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Nah.
Bush just thinks that’s just too expensive.
After all, with just 15 months left his presidency, W is suddenly eager to re-establish himself and his legacy as being fiscally conservative.
Unfortunately for him, it’s come far too late to be anything but a big spender.
All at the expense of our children’s health of course.
But that doesn't seem to bother Bush at all.
And why should it? He's not paying for it.
But our kids are.
Or they will be as soon as Bush vetoes the bill.
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com
Labels: Afghanistan, Bush, children's, conservative, debt, fiscally, healthcare, Iraq, legacy, trillions
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