GEORGE W. BUSH SOUNDS MORE LIKE HERBERT HOOVER ALL THE TIME
HIS VETO OF THE CHILDREN’S INSURANCE BILL SPEAKS MORE ABOUT HIS CHARACTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE HE IS DONE SINCE TAKING OFFICE IN 2001.
How can you veto a bill that will give health insurance to 4 million more children whose families can not afford health insurance at present to guarantee that they will grow up to be healthy and vibrant citizens of our country?
My opinion of George Bush has fallen dramatically since he first ran for president in 2000. He seemed like such a nice guy, a sensitive man, a caring individual especially when he referred to himself as a “compassionate conservative.” Unfortunately, he turned out to be anything but compassionate. And nothing made the point more poignantly than his veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Bush put it this way, “…I believe in private medicine, not the federal government running the health care system," he added in remarks to an audience in Lancaster, Pa.”
What a cowardly excuse for vetoing this measure which would have maintained health insurance coverage for all those presently covered under the bill, but would have expanded coverage to 4 million more children whose parents’ income does not permit them to buy insurance from the private sector for the simple reason that the household income is below the level which allows them to purchase health insurance coverage for their children.
Bush wants them to buy private health insurance rather than what he referees to as “socialized medicine!” This man is not only ignorant, but he is rotten to the core. He is a totally self-indulgent, callous human being who has forgotten the basic message of the faith he wears on his sleeve but fails to practice in this heart. The agape of the New Testament requires that those who truly believe in him will give food to those who are hungry, water to those who thirst, clothe those who are naked and heal those who are sick
He and many of his Republican colleagues on the far right are still living in 1950’s and still believe that anything that falls within the purview of the government must, of necessity, be evil. In the case of medicine the first word that comes out from the mouths of those who are so utterly disconnected from mainstream of American thought no only on the war, but certainly on matters of health care. The very first words that they conjure up in their minds when they hear the term “federal health insurance program” is the old cliché that for some unwarranted reason and without any apparent logic is that dreadful old phrase “Socialized Medicine.”.
God forbid that the government would do anything worthwhile. It was the first Republican president who insisted that “government’s business is to do for people what they cannot do for themselves or do so well.”
What truly confounds me is Bush’s Republicans call for health savings accounts. What the president does not apparently understand and what makes him such an incompetent man is that people who do not have the wherewithal to buy insurance, pay their doctors, or cover the pharmaceutical bill
Does George W. Bush have no conception of what poverty is all about, why they go there in the first place and how they can get out of there, if ever.
The Bush mentality is not unlike that of Herbert Hoover. He allowed his political philosophy to drag the entire nation in the Great Depression. He asked as if his hands were tied. He would not have support the State Children’s State Health Insurance Program either, I suspect.
Bush and Hoover would rather see children die than to provide them with State supported insurance program. Bush and Hoover would rather see soup lines that to initiate employed programs than re-train those who are would of work. I do not know about Hoover, because he was never in this situation, but Bush would rather see America go bankrupt, our deficit soar, our dollar fall in value below the euro, and Canada’s dollar and our whole economy stagger on the edge of an economic abyss rather than stop the damn war in Iraq which is hurting us in so many ways.
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