We knew it was coming.? It’s not like it is a surprise.? President Bush vetoed the bill proposing changes to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).? Here is a story, courtesy of the Associated Press,? mentioning that the veto is coming.? Here is a story saying that the veto has come? (showing a little love for our BBC coverage from the UK).? This is only Bush’s 4th veto during his time in office.
Well parents, what do you think?? Did Bush do the right thing?
Posted in SCHIP | Comments (4)
October 7th, 2007 at 9:49 am
The President absolutely was correct in vetoing a gross expansion of a socialist medical program buried in section XX1 of the social security act.
October 7th, 2007 at 10:02 am
The President should hold his veto of the expansion of a socialized medical care system and seek reductions to the current guidelines, thereby reducing the assistance entitlement. The President’s fiscal responsibilities to the federal budget demand fiscal restraint – not socialist expansion of federal programs.
Some states if left to their own socialist agendas will expand SCHIP to cover families earning $80+K per year by 2010. If you wish to buy a condo in Honolulu you must qualify by earning at least $72K per year in 2007. With the rationale for the latest socialist agenda, we will all be eligible soon to afford a condo because all your other living expenses will be covered by the “Nanny State”!! What happened to individual responsibility in the attainment of personal/family goals?
I highly recommend that we formally recognize the socialist agendas of the current Democrat Party and revise their name to the more correct title of – The Socialist Democrat Party!!!
October 8th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Spend less money blowing people up and more money domestically. Woah, thats nuts. Jesus. Jonsey you are an idiot. How can you seriously say that providing medical care security for children is a bad idea? You sound like you are just looking for a fight. Whatever name you feel like calling it by, wouldn’t you consider it the right thing to make sure that as many children as possible, regardless of social status, have acess to medicine and doctors? Providing the money for the program by increasing the cigarette tax.
October 21st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Hey Margaret, you forgot “Bush lied, kids died!” I think we do plenty for the unfortunate. My wife is disabled. I’m not standing here with my hand out, I’m working my ass off. If you gonna keep reaching deeper and deeper into my pocket, you’re gonna have to give me a hand job. You’d like that, wouldn’t you Margaret?