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Why should this suprise anyone. It seems many in the GOP are friends of Hillary Care only now we don't call it that. We call it a more politically correct name which is Universal Health Care. The government except for already made Medicaid & Medicare obligations needs to get out of the health care business. Use tax breaks for stimulating private sector coverage through employers. It also needs to take the protective shield off HMO's and let them meet the fate they deserve for fraudulant business tactics.

Bush is pushing us in a direction which will put us like Canada on health care. I have not heard him condemn it and I have proof he endorses Universal Health Care. So where will it all lead too? Look at this www.,georgewbush.com article and then look up Tenn Care and Tennessee State Income tax in this forum and it is obvious. What did Universal health Care do to Tennessee?

August 17, 1999

Tennessee Governor Becomes 22nd To Endorse George W. Bush

AUSTIN – Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist today endorsed Governor George W. Bush for President.

"I am pleased to join Governor Bush’s campaign and will work hard in Tennessee to help him win the nomination and the Presidency," said Governor Sundquist at a Nashville news conference. "I have known Governor Bush and his family for many years, and I know how important public service is to them."

"As a colleague of Governor Bush’s, I have watched him become one of the strongest governors in the country. His record in Texas is outstanding, and many of his innovative programs have served as models for the nation. Governor Bush is a proven leader who has the unique ability to unite people and accomplish success. I look forward to working with him and his team, as we gain support from Memphis to Mountain City for this dynamic leader," added Governor Sundquist.

"Governor Sundquist is a valued colleague and a good, close friend, and I am honored to have his support" said Governor Bush. "Don is devoted to welfare reform and better education for the people of Tennessee. His help will be important to my campaign in the Volunteer State. I intend to wage a vigorous, winning effort in Tennessee, not only in the primary, but the general election as well."

Re-elected to a second term last year with a record 69 percent of the vote, Governor Sundquist has initiated unprecedented reforms in Tennessee in the areas of welfare, government and crime, while placing a special emphasis on Tennessee children. Under his watch, the growth of government spending has been cut by more than half; the number of employable adults on welfare has been reduced by 60 percent; and Tennessee became the first state in the nation to connect every public school and library to the Internet and to offer universal health care coverage to all children.

Although the motivation for the statement during the Bush visit may slightly different from what the author alledges, the result is still the same. Brings me back to a warning that I did on the local radio station years ago. "BEWARE OF LEGISLATED SOCIALISM".

Pete Dominici has a realitive that suffers from mental problems so this is something that Dominici has been working on for some time. Of course that does not excuse the fact that such a move would result is a degree of economic destruction, but such is the blindness of political power.

Unfortunately it seems when some attain a leval of economic wealth and or political power, they get a "play God" complex and do not heed the words of the founders related to constraint nor Biblical truth that they indeed are NOT God.

I suppose that if they themselves want to go off and play God, well, that's ok with me. But for some strange reason these "I have arrived and I'm such hot shit" types always seem to choose to play God with MY wealth or MY freedom or MY family.

Makes you wonder why that is just a little doesn't it?