In this hilarious online game BAT's friend Jared created for the Houston Chronicle, you have to "help the Texas Legislature cut millions of dollars from the Children's Health Insurance Program."If you allow too many kids to qualify for insurance, you lose.
The news of all this CHIP stuff is a few weeks old now, but it was (and is) so ridiculous that the Chronicle had the cajones to blatantly shove it back in the face of conservatives who wanted to keep millions of poor-but-not-quite-poor-enough kids from getting health insurance.
When faced with an issue that makes you so angry, sometimes it feels good to have a hearty laugh at how absurd people can be.
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Vote War off the Ballot! Vote Ron Paul in the primaries (http://www.ronpaul2008.com/states/ to learn about your state primary) to keep all the other pro-war candidates off the ballot in '08, leaving a choice between a democrat (that says he/shemale will bring our troops home [but won't promise to bring them home before their first term is over, except kucinch, of course]) and Ron Paul. Even if you don't like Dr. Paul, he DOES have a real solution to funding for children's health care. Did I mention he has delivered around 4,000 babies?
SCHIP has lovely goals but DOES NOT work and leaves me with a list of questions; I'll list a few. Why are the same people pushing so hard for SCHIP not showing any effort at ending our over-extended foreign policy? Would it be fair for me to say that SCHIP's tax spikes on tobacco are only pouring salt in the would of the low income? Why does the federal government require a time frame for the states to spend the SCHIP funds? Why doesn't anyone pay attention to our constitution? I digress. Read these articles but ignore the part about raising taxes at the end of the deficit spending article, otherwise I agree entirely. I think you will too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/cheering-for-ron-paul_b_73700.html
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-05/03parenti.cfm
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