Bush to Propose Help for Uninsured

AP via NYTimes.com ^ | 1/29/02

[hattend]

The plan's cost was estimated at $71.5 billion over 10 years.

So multiply that by ten for the real cost.

More milk for the gov't tit suckers and another excuse to grab more of other peoples' money (taxpayers).

[DoughtyOne]

I'll be a monkey's uncle if this leaner meaner government doesn't look a whole lot like the benevolence is bliss ideology of Lyndon B. and Franklin D. Can you imagine it being any worse under that other guy? Bloat, bloat, bloat, bloat... and the beat goes on, yada yada ya...

[DoughtyOne]

un------- believable

[blackdog]

This tastes like Gore Lite....

[DoughtyOne]

Heck, $40 billion here, $71 billion there, pretty soon you're talking about a whole lot of money.

[ambrose]

More creeping Socialism... now watch all the toadies leap to W.'s defense.

W, like his father, can take care of foreign policy and defense. But like his father, he is an unmitigated disaster on the domestic front.

[DoughtyOne]

Gore lite? How about Gore light.

Remember those dummie lights on older cars that used to light up if oil pressure was a problem. Well, the Gore Light is on now. We've got a problem.

[DoughtyOne]

More creeping Socialism... now watch all the toadies leap to W.'s defense.

I resent that attempt to besmirch our president. Everyone knows this is the cleverest president we've had. He's just spending more money like Gore would have to prove to America how bad it is to spend so much.

< /sarcasm > (Giganticly Big Mega Spending Government Barf Alert!)

[toenail]

At least MSNBC has a real conservative now. I wish we had one in the Oval Office.

[My2Cents]

So, I guess you folks who are complaining about expansion of existing federal health programs -- particularly for the poor -- at a time when the rate of the uninsured is skyrocking, aren't satisfied seeing homeless people wandering the streets; you also want to see them with open sores, and hacking on you with their tuberculon coughing.

[Askel5]

Sick, isn't it?

[DoughtyOne]

Well, in a word, yes.

[Uncle Sham]

Answer to this is for EVERYONE to immediately STOP buying insurance of ANY kind.

[Harrison Bergeron]

Instead, I think the president should propose help for the unSummerShoreHoused. It's a disgrace to this nation that my wife and child [the womyn and chillun angle always brings the dems in] must stay in motels or rental condos every year - sometime without even an ocean view.

[Lazamataz]

So, basically, what you are telling me is that I have a voting choice every November pitting a Socialist Gun-Grabbing Police-State-Pushing party, against a Socialist Not-Quite-As-Gun-Grabbing Police-State-Pushing party.

Libertarians are actually starting to look good.....

[freeeee]

Taxes - Government takes your money by force, then spends it on whatever it wants.
End result: You don't spend your money on what you want.

Tax Credits - Government threatens to take your money by force, unless you spend it on something the government likes.
End result: You don't spend your money on what you want, but you think you did.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"...you also want to see them with open sores, and hacking on you with their tuberculon coughing."

Yeah... that's what we want to see. Let's not forget the part about wanting to nuke the starving orphan gay whales and throw the old folks out of their rat infested hovels so they can eat cat food out on the street. Who are you? Terry McCaulliff?

Chill dude. There's already a national HHS program in place to insure 100% of the nation's chillun. Medicare takes care of the poor disenfranchised welfare motherssingle moms and the elderly. Who does this leave? A small number of indigents who stay away from the system for reasons of mental illness or lack of need, and young singles who opt not to carry health insurance because they're unlikely to use it. And let's not forget the illegal aliens. This looks like the seeds of HillaryCare for the next dem administration.

[Askel5]

Lol ... no doubt. That would be kinda cool, actually.

[Jhoffa_]

This is a good move..

Because between losing jobs overseas (no, I don't think all the low wage/low skill workers will be retrained as rocket scientists) and allowing the illegals to come in and stay, there are going to be ALOT of people needing Government assistance.

Basically wards of the state, with no jobs and no benefits. But, hey.. the tradeoff is they can buy cheap imports, if they can ever find employment to begin with, that is.

And you can bet they will be needing social security to retire and not starve to death, so we will have to "save" that somehow.