The 9/11 reference was admittedly a bit off the wall but it does go to the issue of credibility.
You said: What seems a crystal certainty, however, given past experience with federal medical bureaucracies, is that any proposal will simply be an opening bid. The program will balloon, costs will spiral, and missions will creep.
I can agree with that. And I can agree that the President's initiative goes a lot further than we're comfortable with. Given the chance, I'd like to offer the President some advice on a number of issues.
But, I still don't see the President calling for mass screening of everyone.
The article said: President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes the use of expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs favored by supporters of the administration.
I don't see it, no one has shown me where the report of the commission OR the White House progress report says that.
We can speculate about what it all means until the Hillarys come home. But I don't see it saying what the article (as well as many on this thread) says it does.
That's all I'm saying.
I can agree with that. And I can agree that the President's initiative goes a lot further than we're comfortable with. Given the chance, I'd like to offer the President some advice on a number of issues The proposals probably go further than any of us like, but he also probably gets proposals putting out plans turning mecca into a sheet of glass.
Some on FR, would cheer incessantly about that proposal about mecca.
He's got a tough job and I will trust him basing it on his actions of the last 3 1/2 years. I take that into account, and the actions of his electoral opponent in November.
JMO, Bush is much better than Kerry, and a hyperbolic article by Joe Farah be damned.
