(2007-10-01) — As Congress considers an expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), New York Sen. Charles Schumer today said the Democrat party’s goal is eventually to provide free health insurance to “every un-aborted child in America regardless of economic or immigration status.”
President George Bush has vowed to veto the $35 billion increase that would guarantee taxpayer funding of insurance coverage for every child whose parents own fewer than three Sport Utility Vehicles, live in a home smaller than 5,000 square feet, or watch cable TV on a screen smaller than 42-inches across.
“Bush’s compassionate conservatism apparently ends at the hospital door,” said Sen. Schumer. “It’s ironic that Republican politicians who cozy up to wealthy fat cats when they’re campaigning for office, apparently don’t care about the children of those families when it comes time to provide government-backed medical coverage.”
The New York Democrat said, “Voters will remember next November which party it was that fought for the rights of children…you know, the children who manage to dodge the scalpel for the first nine months. Voters know that Democrats own ‘compassion’.”
31 responses so far ↓
1 camojack // Oct 1, 2007 at 10:48 am
And then, they’ll want to extend it to everybody…but at what cost?!
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2007 at 10:50 am
God Bless America
3 Maggie // Oct 1, 2007 at 10:54 am
I’m so confused!
Is the killing of a child a crime or not?
Is an illegal immigrant illegal or not?
Is robbing from the working rich to give to the unworking poor a crime?(aka taxes)
I object!
4 Just Ranting // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:08 am
God Bless America
5 boberinyetagain // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:20 am
C’mon people, use your heads please!
W/o abortion there would be no hope of funding such a program, there would be far too many children.
Think!
6 boberinyetagain // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:22 am
And, vetoing this program will have much the same effect. I’ve always maintained that George loves the childrens right up until they are born. They can fend for themselves from then on, dang it all!
It toughens em up (or kills them, whatever)
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:24 am
Fat cats or fat chilun”
8 Gotcha // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:45 am
So wait….once a child is born it’s the responsibility of the government?!! Silly me!! I thought parents were responsible for their children!!
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:52 am
The implication of such “programs” is that the Clinton/Soros/Socialist regime would like everybody in the USA to be rich and free when, in fact, they want everybody to be poor and beholden to them.
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, for the most part, but I just felt the need…..
10 Just Ranting // Oct 1, 2007 at 12:00 pm
My senior citizen mother was all excited. She was going to stand in line at some free government handout cheese location. I told her I wished she wouldn’t. I would buy her all the cheese she wants. “No,” she said, “There giving it away for free. You just have to go pick it up.”
Free government cheese isn’t free. You’ve already overpaid for it with your tax dollars. Taking government cheese only makes them want to take more of your money to keep the programs going. Expand that to healthcare and see how much your Free Healthcare is going to cost you in taxes.
And Scott, I too wish the Democrat party and the Left in general were willing to care for children in the womb too. There is no understanding their convoluted logic. If a “non-viable tissue mass” should be discarded with no regard we might never have the gift on men like Tony Melendez?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRiF84zWOcI
http://www.prolife.com/MELENDEZ.html
11 Hawkeye // Oct 1, 2007 at 12:46 pm
This whole government health care thing smells like a load of SCHIP to me…
Can I say that?
12 Hawkeye // Oct 1, 2007 at 12:51 pm
coverage for every child whose parents own fewer than three Sport Utility Vehicles, live in a home smaller than 5,000 square feet, or watch cable TV on a screen smaller than 42-inches across.
BTW, I’m ashamed to admit it, but my child qualifies under the program… on all counts.
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14 onlineanalyst // Oct 1, 2007 at 12:57 pm
There are going to have to be a lot of poor people smokin’ in order to pay for this boondoggle.
15 mig // Oct 1, 2007 at 1:07 pm
SCHIP will be paying for pyschiatric care also: The holiday traditions are facing elimination in some Oak Lawn schools this year after complaints that the activities are offensive, particularly to Muslim students.
16 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 1, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Islam must full of some spiritually, emotionally, psychologically and just generally weak individuals, eh?
17 da Bunny // Oct 1, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Chuckie Schemer…proof that “stupid is forever.”
18 Schumer: SCHIP Should Cover All Un-Aborted Kids - Right Mind // Oct 1, 2007 at 2:08 pm
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19 Shelly // Oct 1, 2007 at 3:18 pm
I can’t believe Bush is going to stop children whose parents make a paltry $82,000 and provide them private health insurance from being forced to switch to inferior coverage. Heartless! And that the majority of smokers - people who make way less that $82,000 - should escape paying for it all. Outrageous!
20 Shelly // Oct 1, 2007 at 3:25 pm
What’s next, taxing public transportation passengers to subsidize SUV’s?
21 Maggie // Oct 1, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Shelly….re#20……good question!
22 algore // Oct 1, 2007 at 4:53 pm
This was MY idea back in 2000…….plagiarizing [deleted]. Guess nobody cared about post-wombal compassion back then. Clearly ahead of my time. Or, more likely, global warming has overheated y’alls brainpans. Luckily, have good a/c up Tennessee way.
Sure do like the 2007 model year SUVs better than those clunking around in the earlier years though.
23 Darthmeister // Oct 1, 2007 at 5:07 pm
They can fend for themselves from then on, dang it all!
Yeah I guess families aren’t good enough to do that any more. Gotta have gov’mint raise them up and feed ‘em. Nannyism at its finest hour.
Hey, Scott, you think Schumer ought to at least fight for partial healthcare coverage for aborted babies? Wouldn’t want to sleight the most innocent of all humanity, now would we?
It also seems to me the Donks would want to pass an IRS regulation giving the mother-to-be the option of declaring half a dependent for the filing year on her tax return for every aborted “fetus”. Abort four “fetuses” and one can declare two dependents for one year! The embryonic stem cell “scientists” would love that one!
24 conserve-a-tips // Oct 1, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Hawkeye: Re #11 - I’m taken aback…I’m floored…I’m incensed…I’m laughing my head off.
25 Beerme // Oct 1, 2007 at 5:57 pm
BTW, I’m ashamed to admit it, but my child qualifies under the program… on all counts.
Hawkeye,
Does that mean ya’ll are SCHIP-shape?
26 Beerme // Oct 1, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Hhhmphh!
27 conserve-a-tips // Oct 1, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Personally, I think the whole thing is a SCHIP-wreck. The Dems have developed one too many ’steering’ committees.
28 conserve-a-tips // Oct 1, 2007 at 7:02 pm
BTW guys…if you haven’t been following the Rush Limbaugh controversy, you really need to read up and get the actual transcripts and then call your senators and congressmen. This is scary because we have a case here where senators are using their power and their immunity to libel and slander a public citizen with falsehoods that are proveably false, and yet they are doing it, throwing all caution to the wind. This is as close to McCarthy as we have come in our lifetime. I am really in shock that they would so blatently lie about this when they are the ones who have actually impuned the troops and their abilities and that is on record too. It makes me tremble to think that our troops are at odds with those in congress and that these nimrods in the marble halls could cause an uprising for which they are totally unprepared.
29 Fred Sinclair // Oct 1, 2007 at 7:54 pm
I came up with the one and only National Health Care Coverage that I would support.
1.) Duplicate, word for word, and line by line the Health Care Plan currently covering every member of Congress and their families.
2.) Pay for it by:
(a) Removing ALL State and Federal “Sin” taxes - ie - Alcohol and Tobacco
(b) Levy a tax of five (5) cents on every loaf of bread, quart of milk and pound of butter or margarine sold in America. (This way virtually everybody gets in on the financing.)
Put that in writing and I’ll vote for it - any variation whatsoever (however small) and I’ll vote against it.
Heirborn Ranger
30 Hawkeye // Oct 2, 2007 at 8:02 am
C-A-T #24,
Glad I could bring a smile to a friend.
Beerme #25,
SCHIP-shape? Good one!
31 prettyold // Oct 2, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Schocolate Schip scookies would be good.
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