Thrifty George W. Bush

A posting in Jewschool:
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July 19, 2007 Screw the poor, philosophically speaking by Y-Love · 

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 "The Washington Post yesterday let us know about how Bush really feels about the poor, poor children in particular: screw ‘em and let ‘em die. Quoting “philosophical reasons”, W voiced his opposition to the legislation which would have renewed and expanded the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, put forth by Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus. The State Children’s Health Insurance Program currently costs the federal government $5 billion a year (a far cry from the near-half-trillion we’ve spent on the Iraq War, or the $1-2 trillion we will have spent by 2016) and “helps provide health coverage to 6.6 million low-income children whose families do not qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford private insurance on their own.” "...And like blogger Ari Berman writes for The Nation, this is not the only “successful government program” benefiting the poor that Bush opposes: “I believe government cannot provide affordable health care,” Bush said at a recent healthcare roundtable. (Bush also opposed the expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, even “trimming” the programs until 2011, in legislation bundled with an $11.9 billion cut to student loan subsidies.)" "...And if you can’t afford it, then, like Ari Berman said in The Nation, just “drop dead”.

Philosophical reasons? Is this what Elitist Dingoes say when they are about to kill your children? I believe it is. They do not wish to appear to be anti-children, so they say that they are compelled by philosophical reasons. Wish those same type of philosophical reasons had forced them to use better judgement 4 years ago.