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POPSToo Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter
(cont.)The leverage for the U.S. Treasury to subsidize Wall Street is too big to fail. The leverage to subsidize mothers and children kicked off welfare is too small to matter. The political momentum for bailing out corporate America is too big to fail. The political momentum for funding adequate payment rates from Medicaid to reimburse healthcare providers is too small to matter. The oil conglomerates are too big to fail. Global warming is too small to matter. The prison industry is too big to fail. The need for preschool is too small to matter. Corporate power is too big to fail. The ordeals of working people and want-to-be-working people are too small to matter. Human worth as maximized by dollars: too big to fail. Human worth as affirmed by humanistic values: too small to matter. The current odds of pumping at least several hundred billion taxpayer dollars into corporate America: too big to fail. The current odds of launching a massive federal jobs program: too sm
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POPSObama's Senate service, Part 2 Especially focused on foreign policy and veterans' affairs; becomes chair of Foreign Relations' Committee's subcommittee for European Affairs.
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POPSFSSA seeking Medicaid expansion for pregnant women Here comes a 180 away from previous policy set by the Daniels Administration in Indiana that is being reversed for election year expediency. It seems Their Man Mitch Roob has decided to go with the plan which will not anger the voters.
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POPSThe War on Pot If it is true, I say legalized it. . IMO alcohol is just as bad or worst than Pot yet it's legal to buy alcohol.
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POPSBush Lies Again...and again...and again Make no mistake. Bush's real reason for this veto is his indebtedness to his rich friends in the insurance industry. He doesn't care about health care. He cares about profits and an economy based on the doctrines of Milton Friedman. Bush even made remarks to this the last time he vetoed this legislation saying that he would never allow "socialized" medicine in this country. What a dork.
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POPSFrost family draws ire of conservatives At issue is the proposal to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program - also known as SCHIP - which provides coverage for 6.6 million children from families not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. Democrats, joined by some Republicans, voted last month to expand coverage to 4 million more children at a cost of $35 billion over five years. Bush has vetoed the bill.
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POPSTobacco industry campaigning against childrens healthcare. Both sides seem keenly aware of the high stakes of the debate, the only ballot measure of its kind in the country this year. Tobacco companies, led by Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, have spent nearly $12 million, making it the most expensive ballot measure campaign in the state's history.
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POPSHypocrite of the Century The meat of the controversy is Bush not wanting to disappoint his Insurance Indutry buddies who are raking in fortunes. And aren't federal employees covered under a "federalized" health care system? I don't think Bush even cares to hide the truth of his incompetence any longer. Every day he becomes more and more detached from reality.
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POPSSCHIP gets a revision by the Democratic Party The Democrats make new revisions to the recently VETOed proposal but fail to address any concerns of the President. The new proposal does add new beneficial characteristics though. A cap on coverage and the prevention of illegal's using is can help limit expense of the program but the cost issue has not been addressed.
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POPS Congress' Disappointing 'New Direction' “Our job is to take America in a new direction, and we are working hard to do that,” a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Of the 106 bills signed by President Bush into law this year, nearly half (46) name post offices, courthouses or roads. Another 44 bills were equally non-controversial measures, such as reconstruction of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis. Of the remainder, 14 bills merely extended existing laws. So much for “a new direction.” As last week’s Democratic debacle over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program revealed, even moderate Republicans who have supported “new direction” initiatives from the Democrats are losing their patience. “I used to think they cared about the policy. Now I think they care more about the politics,” moderate Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) told the Washington Post.
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POPSHeat Or Eat? So the choice for many poor will be between sick children, starving or freezing to death?? Oh well, no worries. America will take it all in it's stride. The poor can always just wrap themselves in the flag to keep warm. Or they can join the military! They say it's really hot over there in the desert. In any case, not to worry. If America is going down, at least it will be doing it in a blaze of *glory*. Now, where were we? Oh yeah ... "Support the troops". Yay. :(
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POPS The Fight For SCHIP Looking to claim the high ground in the political battle, the president this week designated three senior officials to negotiate with Congress, including the secretary of health and human services, Michael Leavitt. He has also indicated that he would be willing to increase funding to cover 500,000 children who are now eligible for SCHIP, but not enrolled. "As it is clear that this legislation lacks sufficient support to become law, now is the time for Congress to stop playing politics and to join the president in finding common ground to reauthorize this vital program," the White House said in a statement. The president's chief spokeswoman said at a press briefing: "We won this round on SCHIP."
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POPSThe rich man himself don't know beans from babies... ...but that probably ain't on his job description ya'll... We gotta write the rule book for our politicians..., not them. Maybe a couple life sentences would do the trick, after all, these people who won't stand up for future generations are about to pass on into hypocritical damnation.
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POPS More Children,More Choices Act “Congressional Democrats have been playing politics with their SCHIP re-authorization bill, using it as a vehicle to advance their long-standing agenda of socializing healthcare and creating a new middle-class entitlement. Congress needs to pass a reauthorization of SCHIP that maintains the original intent of the program by providing health insurance for the millions of uninsured, low-income children across the country, not middle-class adults. Our legislation is supported in both the House and the Senate, and gives Congress a viable alternative to reauthorize this important program quickly, without unnecessary government-run healthcare expansions.”
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POPSAbstinence 1, S-Chip 0 "Our teenage pregnancy and abortion rates have declined during the last decade, but research suggests this is mainly because of increased use of condoms, something young people must learn about outside of school."
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POPSSinking SCHIP It's ridiculous to think that the Frosts, who own over $400,000 in real estate and send their kids to private school, should get health care dollars from my pocket.
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POPSRepublicans Toe the Line Republicans again appear to be without a moral compass. They are presented with a program that has been demonstrated to work (SCHIP) yet they cling to their political dogma of privatization and shrinking of government. I find it stunning that they so hate the idea of government actually helping citizens that they would fight against a proven winner.
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POPSChristians Call Out "Pro-Life" Hypocrites On SCHIP The spots which features a mother urging her representative to support SCHIP, will primarily air on Christian and talk radio stations from Monday Oct. 15 to Wednesday, Oct. 17 in advance of a critical October 18th Congressional vote to override President Bush’s veto of the bi-partisan SCHIP legislation. Chris Korzen, executive director of Catholics United said, Building a true culture of life requires public policies that promote the welfare of the most vulnerable. At the heart of the Christian faith is a deep and abiding concern for the need of others. Pro-life Christians who serve in Congress should honor this commitment by supporting health care for poor children. Make these politicians pay for their hypocrisy.
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POPSSchip expansion costs seniors Prior to House passage of H.R. 3162, Pryce voted to extend SCHIP by supporting a motion to recommit the bill. Pryce is a nationally recognized leader on children’s health, and is the recipient of the Children’s Advocate Award from Ronald McDonald House Charities; the 2003 Champion for Children’s Award from the Children’s National Medical Center; the Child Advocate of the Year from the Court Appointed Special Advocates; the Congressional Champion Award from the National Childhood Cancer Foundation; and was named a Special Friend of Children and Children’s Hospitals by the National Association of Children’s Hospitals.
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POPSSliming Graeme Frost Graeme Frost, then, is exactly the kind of child the program is intended to help. But that didn’t stop the right from mounting an all-out smear campaign against him and his family. After awhile one would think I'd get used to it, but just yesterday a clipper saw fit to use the Frosts to further their own personal political agenda. It never, ever, ceases to amaze me that the right doesn't care about the cost of the war in Iraq but will bang their head against the wall making judgments about who deserves what.
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POPSSliming Graeme Frost
MORE: "In fact, however, Republicans had already made their first move: an e-mail message from the office of Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, sent to reporters and obtained by the Web site Think Progress, repeated the smears against the Frosts and asked: “Could the Dems really have done that bad of a job vetting this family?” And the attempt to spin the media worked, to some extent: despite reporting that has thoroughly debunked the smears, a CNN report yesterday suggested that the Democrats had made “a tactical error in holding up Graeme as their poster child,” and closely echoed the language of the e-mail from Mr. McConnell’s office. All in all, the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate. If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”; if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s faki
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POPSThe Lowest of the Low Every time I believe the right-wing nutters have reached their bottom when it comes to smear tactics, I find myself being shocked back into reality. Now we have Rush Limbaugh, Michellle Malkin, Mark Styne and Senator Mitch McConnell attacking a 12-year-old boy whose family made use of the schip program to help pay for the medical needs he and his sister incurred in a serious automobile accident. They accuse this child of lying for political reasons. This is the same kind of thing Limbaugh and his cronies did to Michael J. Fox when he campaigned for stem cell research, when Limbaugh claimed Mr. Fox was faking his symptoms in order to gain sympathy. Do these people have no feelings whatsoever? To smear a sick child for their own even sicker political purposes is beneath contempt.
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