Jaded Times

President Bush has again stood up to the tyrannical, Democrat-led House and Senate, who had hatched (or rather, drafted; or more accurately, voted for) a horrendous scheme to–get this–provide health care to roughly four million children. For FREE. Fortunately, our president has put a stop to this purely un-American proposal by utilizing his veto power (only the fourth time he has exercised it, one for each million kids who will likely go without medication this year), thus saving his old, rich, white friends at both insurance companies and tobacco corporations estimated billions in profit loss.

The proposal, or “averted terrorist plot” as it is being referred to on Pennsylvania Avenue, would have increased the federal tax on tobacco to subsidize the cost of the program, which was designed to extend the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, currently covering an estimated 6.6 million children. The SCHIP (which is an anagram for CHiPs, a show which popularized Hispanics in the late 70s) offers medical care to children of struggling families who make above the required amount for eligibility in the Medicaid program:

Mr Bush had said he wanted only a $5bn increase in funding for the scheme. He argued that expanding its coverage further would encourage people currently covered in the private sector to switch to government coverage – and that the proposal was too costly. [source]

Chair of the House Democratic caucus Rahm Emanuel drew attention to the overfunding of the US Military with the concern for the nation’s youth by saying “The president has asked for an open-ended, open-wallet commitment to Iraq, and the American children get an empty stocking.” Connections between Emanuel and Al-Qaeda are no doubt being investigated.

Oh, if the title sounds familiar, that’s because this has become a running theme.