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Bush is threatening to veto Children's Health Care Insurance Program. Liberals/progressives are crying that Republicans hate children. Well, the first liberal linked to actually has a brain and uses it.

Every time libs/progs want money, rob of us of our right, or invade our privacy, it's for the children. Through my observations of family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, and university faculty, I have seen no evidence that those of the lib/prog tint care for children more than right wing conservative whacko wingnuts.

Indeed, many seem to care less. They don't like children in their homes, etc. I once had a liberal tell me that abortion was OK because children were better off not being born than living in this cruel world.

But children serve a good purpose as tools for advancing socialist goals via guilt tripping. Rather than debating the merits of a topic, they just yell, "It's for the children!" Encroaching government control into daily life doesn't matter, civil rights don't matter (unless you can accuse Bush of violating them), it's for the children!

Of my siblings and myself, I have four children, my three liberal siblings have only one. When it comes to children, I have four times the investment, four times the experience, my opinion should count four times as much.

Yes, health care is too expensive. Through my experience working in a nursing home and in mental health, the government has played a significant role in the increasing cost of health care as they often set fees, and many other requirements that drive costs up. Personal liability lawyers like John Edwards certainly haven't helped either.

Some of the aspects of this bill are ridiculous.

Members of Congress have decided, however, to expand the program to include, in some cases, up to families earning $80,000 a year -- which would cause people to drop their private insurance in order to be involved with a government insurance plan.

-George W. Bush

$80,000 is over 50% greater than my salary. I successfully carry health insurance on my family with little sacrifice. $80,000! People that make that much money live in $160,000 to $240,000 houses and drive new cars every two years. Yes, this is a push towards socialism, not better, more affordable health care.

In my experience working with government agencies and their staff, they are horribly inefficient and generally apathetic. When my daughter was 10 days old she came down with spinal meningitis. Our horrible private health care system and Children's Hospital of Cincinnati saved her life. She is now an extremely bright, athletic 11 year old. I wonder how a bureaucratic government agency would have reacted in this situation where minutes were crucial.

If you want to do something for my kids, give them a world in which their civil rights and privacy are protected and minimize government invasion into their personal lives. The government doesn't need to know every time they go to the doctor. And, they don't need some government bureaucrat telling them when and were to go to the doctor, hospital, etc. Just look at the problems and more problems Tennessee has had with its TennCare program.

The last thing we need is putting the most incompetent entity available in charge of our health care.