Sunday, September 23, 2007

Bush vows to veto kids’ health insurance bill

President, Democrats clash over proposed legislation for poor children

President Bush speaks during a news conference at the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington on Thursday.


WASHINGTON - President Bush again called Democrats "irresponsible" on Saturday for pushing an expansion he opposes to a children's health insurance program.
"Democrats in Congress have decided to pass a bill they know will be vetoed," Bush said of the measure that draws significant bipartisan support, repeating in his weekly radio address an accusation he made earlier in the week. "Members of Congress are risking health coverage for poor children purely to make a political point."...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20920548/

Lets do the math. - $35 billion over five years for our poor kids.

$134.5 billion so far for the war in Iraq. Exxon Mobile has made $9.28 billion in profits for the first quarter of this year alone. Microsoft made a pidley $14.4 billion in it's first quarter. Walmarts profits were down from the last four years to only $2.8 billion. The nations HMO's made $3.6 billion the first quarter of this year. For some reason I am having trouble finding current statistics on the pharmaceutical industry. Oh well, you probably get the point anyway.
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