Abby

didn’t know you could veto a person.

seriously, the bill would do more harm than good - it’s skipping over the poor and entitling the middle class - the true poor cannot afford health care - the middle class CAN - we just have to cut back and make sacrifices.

Do we seriously want the government to pay for EVERYTHING? Do we want to live in a society where Everything is free! Such society could not survive and the more bills like this exist, I truly question how much longer America will be around…

Oops!  Somebody just vetoed Brian’s good sense.  Really. 

Then again, we should be compassionate.  Perhaps he just has some serious cognitive deficits from all the times his mamma and daddy couldn’t take him to the doctor?  Maybe!

Brian’s comment reflects a fundamental lack of basic knowledge about how health care actually works.

First of all, most of the people who currently lack health care are not going to the doctor when they need to.  This means some easily treatable ailment gets worse, and they end up going to the emergency room and wasting more taxpayer money than government would have spent by paying for a doctor’s office visit in the first place.

The simple fact is that the nutjobs in the Bush administration would rather give out corporate welfare—- bailouts to big industries like the airlines, new tax loopholes to help big oil increase its record profits, etc.  When they give out big bonuses to the CEOs or defraud their shareholders, Enron-style, the government never seems to give them a hard time ... never seem interested in asking them to “take responsibility” or “make sacrifices” ...

But Bush & his cronies (and allies like our friend Brian) want YOU and YOUR family to make sacrifices ... as if trying to get out of your credit card debt, pay a mortgage, save for the kids’ college, pay for the rising cost of gasoline, and put food on the table doesn’t require any sacrifices from you now.

The government doesn’t have to “pay for everything” or “make everything free” - just the essentials, like basic standards of health.  And we can do it by cutting out the non-essentials like corporate welfare and ...

oh wait, almost forgot to ask ... Hey Brian, you’re from Oklahoma, which means one of the most vital economic interests in your state is farming ... so what’s your opinion on farm subsidies?  Should farmers lose their free government goodies ... you know, in the spirit of sacrifice? 

If your answer is yes, then we would have enough money to pay for the kids’ healthcare.  If the answer is no, then you’re a total hypocrite.

brian obviously is not letting the facts get in the way of his opinion.