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The ultimate tyranny is government control over its citizens life and death.  That is what will result with the health system under control of the government.

You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

Democrats: Families Of Four Who Make $82,000 A Year Are Now “Poor”

This might not be a bad thing! By the time we add the “middle class” to this, all the “rich” the Democrats’ll have left to tax is Theresa Heinz (and her husband what’s-his-name),Teddie Kennedy, and Bill Gates!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

I wonder what percent of the people now newly covered by SCHIP have High Definition or flat screen plasma TVs?  How many have two, or more cars, a kid (or two) getting ready to go to summer camp, or a riding mower?

I’m not suggesting that having any of these is wrong, or irresponsible.  But having them while allowing your fellow taxpayers (who cannot afford it) to pick up the tab for your kid’s health insurance premium so you CAN have these things IS irresponsible.

If they are your kids, the responsibility for their health and welfare is yours, not your neighbors’… regardless of which village you live in.

If we can’t manage to afford the entitlement programs we already have, such as Social Security and MediCare, why would we rationally take on any more entitlement liabilities?

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Complete misinformation as always.  Yes, the bill would allow for families with up to 82,000 dollars to get SCHIP coverage for their children, but only after filling out an exception application and submitting it to the federal administration (that’s right - your buddy Bush’s domain) for approval.  So, in other words, if some of those families out there making 82,000 dollars ended up receiving SCHIP benefits you can blame your administration, not the legislation itself or the legislators (which, of course, included many of your republican friends) that passed it.

Instead of spitting back word for word Bill O and Rush’s rhetoric why don’t you try actually reading the bill, or is that too much to ask?  Go ahead, call me a troll - but prove to me that the bill says anything otherwise first.

Chuckles,

I suggest you see a chiropractor.  That chip on your shoulder has you listing dangerously to the left.

This will probably be difficult for you to comprehend, but unlike those of you on the Derangement-afflicted left, conservatives actually look at issues and policy alternatives on their respective merits, and our decisions are not based on the endorsement or support of this or that official or celebrity.  Of course, this requires a good deal more individual intelligence and cognitive reasoning power, but we are fully capable of those intellectual efforts, which is why we are conservatives to begin with, rather than mind-numbed leftist dullards.

And a very small portion of that extra brain power we’ve been endowed with and developed so assiduously tells us that what is important isn’t what would happen for the remaining 15 months of the Bush administration, but over the years and years thereafter.

The problem with the $82,000 income limitation for the SCHIPS program is that it discourages those who can afford to do so from utilizing free market solutions and encourages them to rely on government instead.

As I said above, much of this, as simple as it is to conservatives, is probably beyond your comprehension anyway.  That would certainly explain why your BDS affliction is so much more prominent than any rational mental processes.  But if you’ll focus your limited attention span on the Constitution itself, you might perceive that the poi9nt of that document is to limit government intrusion, not encourage its expansion.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

chuck: How about the part where “children” are defined as being up to the age of 25?

The real problem with SCHIP is that it’s just another leftie welfare pyramid scheme.  Its cost will spiral out of sight very quickly, with no increase in the quality of life for anyone but the political class.

If life doesn’t begin at conception, why do they call it birth control?