Comments on: Tell Us Why, Mr. Bush

Dick Meyer Detects An Aroma Of Hypocrisy In Dustup Over Funding Of Health Program For Children

[alanrobisch]

Also note that one of the major initiatives that g bush has taken is the raising of large amount of monies to help with aids in africa for which we have gotten much kudos but dems who are out to hang the president don't know about these things

Note also we have had a strong economy for most of his term not based on an internet bubble and since 9/11 there has been no zero nada terrorist attacks on the US. Yet we would be told that he has been incompetent at his job.

Note unemployment has stayed remarkably low and interest rates have been near historic lows despite the deficit spending.

[uswarrior]

*** Meyer, why is it Government's responsibility to pay for people's health care? Why isn't it each individual's responsibility to seek ways to get/fund their own health care? Why isn't it each person's responsibility to seek and obtain the education/skill and job that will allow them to fund their own health care? What I've seen as I've traveled the world is that America has unequaled opportunity that is limited only by a person's willingness to work. Unless impaired, all it takes is a little studying for a person to develope themselves. If you are toiling away for minimum wage in a job that doesn't provide health care, willylou11, get up off the couch, turn-off the TV, go to school, learn a valuable, marketable skill of your choice, and you'll get a job that pays well and provides health care. Or join the Army like I did. Our Nation needs you to do that.

[alanrobisch]

I strongly object to my taxes going without my choice except for a vote that is swamped in my state by overwhelming democratic control to spend however they want. Retired teachers in our state have higher incomes in retirement and pay no money toward their health insurance.

They are also paid better than most teachers in the US while we pay the highest property taxes in the nation. Yet in spite of this we are often told that the pension fund is underfunded and that the budget is balanced with smoke and mirrors.

It has been reported that to insure that one child gets the best educataion he can as much as a million dollars a year has been spent.

Gee based on this financial record I really trust the government more than private industry aka hmo's to use money productively.

[thgdriver]

Senator Obama, you did not answer my question yet, I ask again, as a senator in Illinois you backed the law, now in place in that state, that makes it a felony for honest citizen's to protect their family's and home's with a firearm.

In light of the recent home invasion and rape/murder of that poor family, do you feel that law is justified and would you support it for passage for all 50 states as president?

It's a simple yes or no question Senator.

[willylou11]

I dream of a time when we can have an elected leader who does what's best for the American people, not what's best for his particular party, or friends or business associates. This is not a knock on Bush, because republicans and democrats, right and left wing are all guilty of it. I long for a state where everyone is taken care of equally irregardless of financial standing in the community. I do believe I remember someone saying over 100 years ago that all men are created equal, yet we treat one person one way because he's got a million dollars, and another person another way because he doesn't. There are times in this country that you can't get decent health care because you're not independently wealthy. The promise of equal treatment under the law is a sham. Instead of the country being built on what is right and just, it's built on the dollar and who has it. The wage system is a joke, while a majority of us toil away for minimum wage or a little higher and try to survive the best we can, people sit in nice leather seats and make laws governing that minimum wage, and then give themselves a big, fat raise so they can have another car they don't drive, a house they don't live in, and put up a fence to keep out the commoners they look down on, even though they are the people they were elected to serve.

[willylou11]

. I just don't understand why some people think they need hundreds of millions of dollars that they'll never spend, but there are children in this country that don't have what they need or sometimes go to bed hungry at night, because they're parents are having a tough time getting by on minimum wage. I think it's time the American people stepped back and looked at the state of the union for what it really is. We need to start worrying about the people that make up this great nation, and not how we can keep the people overworked and overtaxed and underpaid so someone can buy a new car, or so we can spend billions of dollars to send a rocket to mars. I'll be honest, I don't care what's on mars, but it's how my tax dollars are spent. For those who don't like what i said, it's my opinion, and I think we should all be severly concerned.(continued.)

[whodotcom]

I don't even know how right-wingers find there way to a real news site like this one. I thought right-wingers were only allowed to listen to Rush-Limburger and Watch Fox distorted-news. I didn't mention a news paper because republicans don't really read. Harry Potter is on the banned list.

[whodotcom]

I think I prefer chicken wings; hot, crispy, spicy a real treat "I need napkins". Right Wings, boring dull, always blaming others, not worth eating, I throw those out.

[mluce2]

Mike,
Your comment is so typical of the right wing. Blame the messenger. And you do it so poorly that it could be run as a joke. Babble or Blah blah would work but "more left wing rabble" doesn't. Of course maybe you mean that the rabble is coming to get...someone! HHHmmmm

[u4y3b9p]

"Who was this 'experienced colleague' - Dan Rather? Susan Sarandon? Or perhaps Michael Moore?"

Typical Pro-Bush comment...won't address the real facts, but attacks a person as "liberal." This is so old and ignorant.