Wednesday, October 24, 2007
No Health Care and Now No Heat...
Our wonderful President has shown his true colors again. Vetoing a bill to give more health care coverage to poor children was not enough. Now he wants to cut the money that helps the poor pay their heating bills. Maybe he thinks global warming will cut down on the number of days people will need to heat their home. So what to do with the extra money. Why let's spend it in Iraq. Congress needs to do something about this man and do it now. We cannot wait until the next election. Have a backbone people and let Bush know we are as mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore...
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the 'bill' that you speak of (the health care one) i believe would have doubled the tax on cigarettes to help pay for this. now what are the effects of this happening?
maybe more people would stop smoking. because those who can't afford it, wouldn't. the children then get less money for their health care. well that can't happen. what to tax next? your favorite and mine...
alcohol. that would sky rocket. the 'money' wouldn't just go away. this is a way to tax what is seen an immoral by the far left. and then they would tax something else. the cycle wouldn't end.
remember what your friend and mine, marx, said...oh, did i just make a reference that the left are communist? yes, i did. that's the way the left are moving. and now they are able to use this bill against the republicans during voting. saying that the republicans do not care about the children. where the response is...no, it's not that they don't care, it's just that they don't think a small percentage of the population ought to pay for something when the rest of the society doesn't.
i hate to admitt it, but maybe marx and engels were right. capitalism to socialism to communism.
[shalom...]
I am not a big fan of "sin" taxes in general. I am a fan of children having adequate health care. The question is how to do this. Raising taxes on cigarettes is not a permanent solution. Lets be honest though. Are cigarettes a good thing? Study after study tell us no.
I also disagree with your view of the Republicans. Bush and his group just don't want the government to pay. They claim that if the bill became law then families would drop their private insurance and let the government pay. Who cares if the family never had insurance to start with and more important never had the money to pay for it or a decent job that offered it. The Republicans continually show they only care about the top 1 percent and hope that by passing laws these people will make so much money that some of it will eventually trickle down to the rest of us...
whether cigarettes are or are not a good thing is not in question. what is in question is the penalty that the smokers would have to pay for it.
if this is such a big problem...then lets not put a bandade on it. lets not think in the short term. lets not think in the 'oh shit i need to get elected' mode of thought. the sad thing is, is that is how all politicians think.
We have to think in the short term since the only long term solution is socialized medicine. That is not going to happen...
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