Mark Steyn: The real war on children

Orange County Register ^ | October 20, 2007 | Mark Steyn

[Puzzleman]

And so, in a democratic system today's electors vote to keep the government gravy coming and leave it to tomorrow for "the children" to worry about. That's the real "war on children" – and every time you add a new entitlement to the budget you make it less and less likely they'll win it.

Well said!

[NicknamedBob]

"A couple of weeks ago, the Democrats put up a 12-year-old SCHIP beneficiary from Baltimore, Graeme Frost, to deliver their official response to the President's Saturday-morning radio address. And immediately afterwards Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and I jumped the sick kid in a dark alley and beat him to a pulp. Or so you'd have thought from the press coverage ..."

Not only does his rapier wit have great reach, it is spot on target.

"I'm in favor of tax credits for child health care, and Health Savings Accounts for adults, and any other reform that emphasizes the citizen's responsibility to himself and his dependants. But middle-class entitlement creep would be wrong even if was affordable, even if Bill Gates wrote a check to cover it every month: it turns free-born citizens into enervated wards of the Nanny State."

It needs to be emphasized that Medical Savings Accounts have to carry over from one year to the next or they won't be utilized. Current plans are "use it or lose it," which often equates to "lose it."

[kellynla]

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke

[magellan]

This gem from Steyn's article"

[The Frost's] have ... three vehicles – a new Chevy Suburban, a Volvo SUV, and a Ford F-250 pickup.

[tips up]

The Volvo puts them in the liberal camp I guess.

Actually not true for all. My father had a Volvo and he was to the right of Atilla the Hun.

[Old Student]

“The real war on children is abortion.”

And charging the survivors to support their murderers is NOT part of the war?

It’s all one war, FRiend.

[Vinomori]

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