Yeah, I guess if you’re inhumane and don’t
have a Christian or compassionate heart for
those in totally primitive and helpless 3rd
world nations, with dozens of thousands of
adults and children .. dying for want of the
simplest of remedies, it’s easy to scoff at
those who are humane and don’t easily turn
their backs on a plague of needless suffering
and death, if they can make a difference.
After all, it’s just thousands of strangers’
lives .. a million miles away from your
important concerns.
Pres. Bush made a difference for many millions
of people. I’ll always be grateful for his
relentless intrepidity and resolve in keeping
us safe from another terror attack here, among
so many other reasons.
You sleep easier with -0 in the White House?
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Commentary: Bush saved 10 million lives
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A legacy of President George W. Bush will be that he saved 10 million lives around the world.
His critics ignore it, but name another president about whom one can say that with such certainty. It is what historians will say a decade from now looking back. Not bad for a president who leaves office with the lowest approval rating in recent memory.
*snip*
Before Bush acted, the nation’s 43 million seniors did not have affordable access to prescription drugs (the most powerful tool a doctor has to prevent and treat disease) through the Medicare program. Today, because of George Bush, they do.
Initially, conservatives howled because the prescription drug initiative “cost too much.” Liberals hated it because it involved the markets and competition. But today, 23 million seniors live healthier lives, Medicare drug spending has been 20 percent to 30 percent less than predicted for each of the past two years and seniors overwhelmingly give the program enthusiastic reviews.
And, in addition, the program is highly redistributive — giving advantages the poorest, introducing preventive care to Medicare, encouraging electronic prescribing and introducing chronic disease management.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/frist.bush/index.html
Then why oppose amnesty?
Or any of the Great Society programs that were part of LBJ's "War on Poverty"?
Or Obamacare, for that matter?
Do-gooders like yourself have been trying to "help" those "primitive and helpless [third] world nations" for decades, yet there is still poverty and death and disease.
Furthermore, borrowing on the credit of present future generations of taxpayers in order to give the money away isn't humane or compassionate. It's downright wrong. And, in the case of unborn taxpayers, it's called taxation without representation, something Americans rebelled against over two centuries ago.
“Yeah, I guess if you’re inhumane and don’t
have a Christian or compassionate heart for”
It is Christian to give of your own money of your own free will. It is a tyranny to put a gun to my head and take my money to give instead. Honestly, the best thing that could be done for Africa is to STOP giving them money....
This says it well:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840896/posts
“Initially, conservatives howled because the prescription drug initiative “cost too much.””
What do you mean “initially”? We still howl at the Great Society add-on he pushed on us. Do you have ANY IDEA what the Constitution actually says? An $18 trillion unfunded liability on our future to buy votes from the AARP and you think we should respect him for it.