My LTTE on Bush telling children to "drop dead"

[NewJeffCT]

DROP DEAD
In our country, millions of children lack health insurance and studies have shown that nearly 20,000 Americans die each year because of a lack of health insurance. Back in 2004, President Bush promised to lead the effort to enroll millions of children in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and made this one of the focal points of his presidential campaign. His exact quote was, “We will lead an aggressive effort to enroll millions of poor children who are eligible but not signed up for the government’s health insurance programs.” Recently, a bipartisan proposal passed Congress that would greatly expand the already successful SCHIP program to provide health insurance to our nation’s children. Shockingly, President Bush has now promised to veto this bipartisan measure. It seems that instead of helping children, President Bush’s “compassionate conservative” message to the children of our nation is now, “Drop dead.”

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Great LTTE

And a good way of putting it--Bush's veto is saying "drop dead" to poor children.

[AndyA]

2. Good letter. I keep asking Republicans when human life becomes expendable.

They fight to protect the unborn fetus. Even if it risks the life of the mother in some states, the fetus trumps all.

But then, after birth, that life becomes expendable. No health insurance, a life filled with abuse, lack of education, illness, and pain.

If they make it to a certain age, they are sent off to fight in a war based on lies.

So I keep asking Republicans at exactly what moment does life become less worthy of life? At birth? Is it when the cord is cut? And none of them really seem to have an answer. For people who fight so hard to preserve life, it's a pretty large black hole that they can't state with any certainty when that protection of life ends.

The GOP has nothing without hypocrisy.

The Republicans are the party of torture, destruction, lies, corruption, and pain.

[NewJeffCT]

4. The culture of life

Before you're born and after you're dead is when they care about you.

[globalvillage]

3. Great letter.

The one below yours is idiotic.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. I agree. Complete idiot.

[NewJeffCT]

7. I think Sean Hannity is still selling that BS to his audience

Probably citing a story in the Washington Times or similar.

[Clark2008]

5. I'd be for it if it was funded by regular taxes and not sin taxes.

Sin taxes ensure it won't receive the proper funding.

It's important enough for us to fund through REGULAR taxes, not by driving up the cost of cigarettes, thus ensuring that many will either quit or, more likely, buy from the online black market, to avoid these charges, which will make the program eventually run out of funding.

Fund it with our taxes, not from the "sinners."