Bush Priorities on Display
posted by
Wally
7:40 AM
Bush: $196 Billion a year to bomb Iraqi kids = Vital.
$5 Billion a year for American kids healthcare = Veto
After spending the past couple months ranting and raging about the Democrats not giving him another $196 Billion blank check for 2008 for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush yesterday vetoed, for the second time, the SCHIP bill, which would spend less than 3% that much for children's health care here at home. For the second time in three months, President Bush on Wednesday vetoed legislation that would have expanded the State Children's Health Insurance program by $35 billion over five years and would have boosted its enrollment to about 10 million children.
Bush cited the same reasons that led him to veto a version of the bill on Oct. 3 - that it raised cigarette taxes and provided coverage for children of middle-class families instead of focusing on the working poor. Remember that. Whenever you hear freepers and ditto-heads use the phrase "class warfare" they are talking about the war that the super rich and powerful are waging on the middle class. In this case, they're not even man enough to go after the working middle class. They're picking on their kids.
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