Comments on: Democrats Push Through Kids Health Plan

Bill Would Give Coverage To 6 Million Children; Faces Bush Veto Threat

[drivelphobe]

OldThought......

Too bad, you sound like what we need. I'm in the same boat as you, only a few years ahead. My kids are through college and I'm about at the end of the road. Been retired for 12 years and I definitely know what it's like to survive on a budget. In a way, I'm fortunate because I am able to meet most expenses. However, it would only take one unexpected disaster to change all that in a flash. Just keeping my fingers crossed and hope that the end, when it comes, is quick. I can't afford a long illness.

[hungry1968]

I think sometimes that Americans dont know how well they have it.

In so many other nations, you are lucky to have a carboard box to live in. Some of the better ones, like Chili or India, little shany towns made up of rangey old shacks are all they have to live in.

We complain, but live in mansions compared to some many of them.
Posted by pwrslm at 12:36 PM : Aug 02, 2007


This is your rationale for believing that children in this country shouldn't have health care?
"Other kids don't have it, so we should be glad that ours don't either."

Wow! You republicans are unreal! Ready to let our troops die for no reason, ready to PREVENT the children in this country from having access to health care, supporting Bush at every turn....

You're almost as dangerous as the terrorists!!

[tucano2]

Want more money "for kids' health plans"? Why just sell additional tons of cigarettes to kids, of course! What a load of smelley road apples this plan is.

[pwrslm]

I think sometimes that Americans dont know how well they have it.

In so many other nations, you are lucky to have a carboard box to live in. Some of the better ones, like Chili or India, little shany towns made up of rangey old shacks are all they have to live in.

We complain, but live in mansions compared to some many of them.

Its true that our Government is a really poor administrator of both wealth and justice, but does that justify complaints th at we give money and help to those who are so much worse off than our poor (who are like rich people in some places)?

[tejasdemo]

Good !!!!!!!!

Go Dems Go !

These folks have pushed thru more decent legislation in 1 year than Republicans did in 12 !

[bobnjersey]

[Just get some REAL people in there, that live like the majority, that have had to WORK for a living, not stepped into it on the family golden rope, some one who truly understands ... We need a real change, and definitly not another 8 years with Billary, so we can be laughed at worldwide, for electing that couple into the Big House again. ]
[Posted by OldThought at 11:26 AM : Aug 02, 2007]

the system's corrupt ... it will corrupt anyone you elect.

remove private money from the process ... publicly fund elections ... limit terms ... regulate lobbyists ... remove members who break the rules.

[Netterz]

No drivel... sorry, I cant afford to run, since the only one who are 'allowed' to get close to that point, is based on how much $$ you have. I am just a mere broke middle class mortal thats just trying to survive, get the kid thru college, and maybe be able to retire for a few days before I die. I would love to get all the perks the polititions get.... lifelong 100% WEALTH, for me and my spouse, the golden rope to toss to my children when there done sucking the golden bottle, and teaching them the art of lying, deciet, and how to blindfold and screw the people who elect them. What a perfect job!!

[barbjc1]

Being without health insurance is not only a condition for the poor. I have a college degree and spent the last 20 years in IBM mainframe support and cannot get a job since being RIF'd 5 years ago. I am now making about 17,000 a year that includes a widow's pension, plus substitute teaching. Thanks to our so-called Homeland Security's background check you always have to give not only your SSN but your birthdate, behold legalized age discrimination. I do not have health insurance and cannot afford it.
Don't label lower income to just the low IQ's, uneducated, druggies, etc.

[Netterz]

Why not put the suggestion in that we CLOSE the borders, stop sending TRILLIONS over seas to provide for free health care in other countries, instead of taking care of our own first? We keep either paying for it here, or overseas, as if we dont have homeless people here, dont have struggling single parents here, we dont have seniors that have been screwed out of there retirements by the corporations they gave 30+ years of there lives to, and paying into SSI, so they would be taken care of in there golden yrs, GONE, given to illegals and immigrants that have never paid a DIME, so our elderly have to make a choice between there health, food, house, while the gv't sits and picks away at what little funds they have left till its gone.

[drivelphobe]

OldThought....

You are correct. The system we have now is not working and there is very little, if any, perspective from the ranks. These modern politicians are all cronies, like two families, arguing over things that only matter to them. Are you running?