For Our Babies' Sake
You've probably heard that the President plans to veto funding for the program which provides healthcare for kids whose parents work but can't afford insurance.
Dude wants to spend the money prolonging the Iraq occupation instead. $190 billion! Is he f*cking kidding me?
We must stand up for our children and prove once and for all George Bush doesn't represent the kind of America we'd like to see.
Click here to be part of this push to put kids' healthcare first.
Cause someone has to.
posted by kate @ 9:31 AM
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NEW YORK - Here's something Madonna can really celebrate: a nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Madge joins heartland rocker John Mellencamp, the puckish rappers Beastie Boys and premier dance acts Donna Summer and Chic among the nine nominees for the hall. The five leading vote-getters will be inducted in the annual ceremony March 10, 2008, at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
I can't wait to here the response to this one:
If we can hold off for a year and a 4 months, it looks like our problems will be solved. The occupation of Iraq will be immediately ended, our troops will be home, and that money will go to health care for the kids.
(wait, I heard a new plan for $5000 per new kid may take away from some of this money going to health care).
In the mean time I have told my friends that can not afford health care insurance for their unborn children under the present conditions to either end their pregnacy if they are pregnant or do not get pregnant.
I was amused that my friend that drives the Hummer and the Prius and has two boats, three phones and two kids already told me I didn't have a right to tell him he shouldn't have a kid if he can't afford the health insurance.
And then I asked him if his parenting skills were good or bad. That really pissed him off.
ok - let's here it.
oops - "hear"
Chase - Only you would ignore the issue of kids' healthcare and write about my Beastie Boys.
But they are rather puckish.
WMD - You can be as snarky as you like, this is a program that works. It's a program that enjoys broad support because it works. This is a program even some Repubs get behind because it enjoys such broad support.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that it works?
Are we a society that gives a shit about its children? Or aren't we?
I vote for yes. Yes, we are.
Boo Hoo it's not about the children it's about offering insurance to people who can pay for it. P.S government wasn't created for this stop with the socialism.
The Constitution says to provide for the general welfare.
Look it up.
I was thinking more along the lines of bad parenting.
Me and my ole' lady make $100,000 a year. We have 3 kids, we bought a new house two years ago with those juicy mortgage payments, we each have a car and 4 credit cards that are maxed out.
We have 3 kids. They have the latest in technology gadgets, keep up with the fashion clothes, etc, etc.
We have 15 monthly payments on whatever we have bought (cell phones, etc).
But we can't afford our health insurance payments.
And along with this, some other kid down at that bad school was all up in my little girls face and took her iPod during math class. The teacher didn't seem to care that I worked hard for that ipod.
My ole lady is going to give up Walmarten' tomorrow to go kick that other kid's ass and I'm getting a late start fishin' Friday (callin in sick) cause I'm goin' down to the school and make 'em pay for my ipod.
You're damn right I should get free health care. It comes under my pursuit of happiness.
While I'm at it:
Small business owner. Gross income a million a year. 34 employees.
One of the employees is a divorced mom with 3 kids. Does a hell of a job at work. But misses work a lot. The absentee patern is linked to the day after karaoke night.
Business owner sees asset that employee is to his business, so he talks with employee, points out attendance issues. Employee cries. Explains all of the woes she has, just trying to make it.
Later on, employer decides to give employee a raise. Employer is thinking quid-pro-quo.
What does employer over hear said employee say to co-worker?
"now that I have a raise, I can take off more time and still make the same amount of money".
And we are paying for her health care too
And all this time I'm still riding my bicycle to power my computer to save electric payments so I can pay my insurance payments.
Gotta look at my priorities someday.
You seem obsessed with people who take advantage of the system. I wonder if billionaire CEOs that trample workers' pensions get you just as upset?
Doubt it.
There are millions of children without health insurance and proper care. In addition to that being wrong, from a moral standpoint, it's also costing us billions when they use emergency rooms as their primary source of health care.
Either way we pay. You decide which you'd rather your money go to.
So read this part carefully - if a few parents have misplaced priorities: I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. Their kids shouldn't suffer because of it.
Most of these working poor families bust their ass to make ends meet. Get up off your couch and meet some of them. Don't take lessons on these families from what you hear behind your goddamn gate or from Fox News or the assholes down at the f*cking country club. It's embarrassing that anyone would believe the majority of our working poor is poor because they'd rather go f*cking fishing.
Hand-in-cash bag along with the CEO's that trample workers pensions I place the skimmer's (top to bottom) of the government money that never makes it to it's intended target.
Since we have previously established that the woes of kids are based on bad parents, I obviously missed the memo about any of them being responsible for being a bad parent.
We have a few years to go before we socialize the birth rate. With a lot of our friends and neighbors stopping by from around the world, my Halloweeen candy expense has gone up significantly. Big Halloween is out of control.
Since I live in a gated community and have ivory, well fancy iron, walls around me, I forget what it was like when I started out. I did not have my first kid until I was in my late 20's. That was after I moved out of my trailer. You know, the mobile home without wheels. Now I have a modest 6000 sq/ft house, lots of acres and all my kids are gone. Where is the justice?
You are convincing. Now that I have thought about it, once we provide these millions of kids (and I think there's more coming everyday)with health insurance and proper care, the emergency rooms will become prohibitively profitable, especially those around the border states. I am proposing a tax bill for them as I type.
Gotta go - my neighborhood gang is Humming over for our poker tournament while we watch football and grill our meat. The women folk went to our water front house and took our small crusing yacht for a jaunt.
Nothing like some Ketel to help the afternoon breeze by.
Looking at our government's history of having well meaning missions for the general welfare of the world's citizenry, I have complete confidence that these billions of dollars we will save in a little over a year when we withdraw from the occupation will go directly to the kids.
In the meantime, for over 30 years, Congress has failed to fully fund IDEA for those really expensive kids that ride the short busses that follow the same route that the big busses do. If IDEA was fully funded, we know that there would immediately be more money for all of our normal kids in our well managed schools.
Despite bad parenting.
Ok, buddies left and I lost in poker.
As they say in comedy, timing is every thing.
By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 30, 2007; Page A01
Hundreds of families living in housing subsidized by Fairfax County taxpayers exceed income caps designed to ensure that only the neediest receive assistance, a review of county records shows.
In the most extreme cases, Fairfax is underwriting rents for families making well into six figures: One household getting help makes more than $216,000 a year; another, $184,000. Dozens of others -- making $60,000, $70,000, $90,000 -- exceed eligibility caps. And they do so with the tacit approval of county housing administrators, who do little to encourage occupants to move on when their fortunes improve.
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I wonder how many kids belong to these hundreds of families. How many cars, cell phones, monthly bills do they have?
How many of them go fishing? Probably none.
How many of them pay for health insurance?
So, in a few years, the neediest of the ones who need health care still won't get it.
Ever wonder how a drug pusher makes a living? He gives it away free at first.
It's the same bullshit reasoning with PTA fundraisers. If parents were involved, just like in their religion, they would donate to the school in the amount the school would have plenty of money for whatever project they needed.
Instead, the PTA hires a fundraising company.
The parents pay more for an item than they would under normal circumstances.
The fundraising company takes the majority of the money. To add to the stupidity, the fundraising company takes part of the money to award prizes for the kids who sold the most.
But look how good everyone feels because of what they did to "raise money" for the kids. Who is really making money? How much money goes to the kids?
I know I won't change the course.
I grew up with no electric heat and never had a TV. I went to college on a scholarship. I was financially poor when I was a kid.
My mom never let me know it.
Like you said before, blame it on the parents.
I'm not sure where you're being sincere or when you're being snarky.
At any rate.
This is a popular program that works. Very little in the way of funds being misused. So I'm going to focus on the millions of needy children who will benefit from health insurance.
You go and focus on anything you like.
Kisses.
The new upgrades to this program will allow families that make 83,000 dollars to qualify for this program. Currently there are over 700,000 adults on the program with over 100,000 of this people with no children. Stop the liberal talking points and address the real issues. This program was started by republicans to help the children, this isn't about the children anymore but about funding gone wild. Why would a children's health program have adults and even people who have no kids getting these benefits.
exactly -just send in the money cause it's the thing to do
It's amazing that these compassionate conservatives are so outraged that some of their made-miniscule-by-tax-cuts taxes would actually do some good for a kid are the same neo-compoops that are oh so dandy about the trillion or so $'s and planeloads of dead kids for their precious war.
Hypocrisy, thy simian peanut brain knows no interior.
>>The Constitution says to provide for the general welfare.
Look it up.<<
Holy shit!! When the founding fathers wrote that in that's not what they were talking about, nor does it mean that now.
This stupid idea of the Constitution being a living, breathing document that should be intrepreted in light of which way the wind blows this particular decade or year or month or day is going to bury the country. Oh well, no country lasts forever.
And that has exactly what to do with the issue at hand other than you trolling for your chance to cherry pick an argument.
This was the perfect opportunity for you to prove you're a human being, predictably you blew it.
I guess my attempt to address parent responsibility (bad parents) and how they are relieved of their responsibility was poorly formulated.
For those who know, are there more kids coming along that will be able to support all of us?
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