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Monday, October 22, 2007
But caring for poor sick kids is "too expensive" posted by Wally 12:53 PM Earlier this month, Bush vetoed the SCHIP bill that would have provided insurance for an additional 4 million uninsured low and middle income children. He waved his new-found veto pen proudly, as if to show off that he does know how to print his name, and said he was vetoeing the bill because the $35 billion price tag spread over 5 years was too expensive. $7 billion a year is too much to spend to keep 4 million kids healthy. What could be more important to Bush than taking care of our own children? How many guesses do you really need? Bush Wants $46 Billion More for Wars President Bush will ask Congress for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs. The figure, which Bush was expected to announce later Monday at the White House, brings to $196.4 billion the total requested by the administration for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere for the budget year that started Oct. 1. It includes $189.3 billion for the Defense Department, $6.9 billion for the State Department and $200 million for other agencies. The Iraq war, now in its fifth year, already has cost more than $455 billion, with stepped-up military operations running about $12 billion a month. The war has claimed the lives of more than 3,830 members of the U.S. military and more than 73,000 Iraqi civilians. The White House originally asked for $141.7 billion for the Pentagon to prosecute the Iraq and Afghanistan missions. The latest request includes $42.3 billion more for the Pentagon. What Bush is saying in essence is that it is more important to spend nearly $200 Billion of our tax dollars to blow up other people's kids than to spend $7 billion to take care of our own. That's all you need to know about what Bush means when he uses phrases like "compassionate conservatism" and "culture of life". Republican Priorities Permalink :: 2 comments :: Post a Comment




	Not to worry. The Dems. promise (sort of, maybe) they have a 'secret plan' to have us out by 2013. How's construction on the biggest U.S. embassy in the world coming along by the way? I got this funny feeling the Marine guard common at U.S. embassies worldwide is going to be thousands at this one. Why would that be...? posted by 6 of one, half a dozen of the other at 1:01 AM


	"out by 2013" Oh man that would be funny if it wasn't so frikking tragic. And if they actually had a plan. Sorry Dems, 2013 is about 5 years too fucking late. Shit, 2007 is 5 years too late. posted by Wally at 6:26 AM