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Bush veto for child health bill

US President George W Bush has vetoed a bill to expand a children's healthcare insurance scheme, after it was passed with a large majority in the Senate.

In this same article we find:

The State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP) currently subsidises health care for some 6.6 million people, most of them children.

And we also find:

Republican Senator Trent Lott is quoted ...as saying... "We should not allow it to be expanded to higher and higher income levels, and to adults," he said. "This is about poor children."

Contrary to that bright Republican mind Trent Lott , we find:

According to the US Census Bureau, 35.9 million people live below the poverty line in America ...including 12.9 million children.

Lets lay out the facts:
- the original program provides health care for 6.6 million children.
- there are at least 12.9 million children in America living in poverty.
- the new bill would have expanded health care to more of those 12.9 million impoverished children.
- Trent Lott and George Bush think that - "We should not allow it to be expanded to higher and higher income levels..."

Notice how the wording describes the income levels as being higher and higher. In fact what this "higher and higher" describes are different levels of impoverishment. This is an abomination, a twist of words that the vast ill informed network of Limbaugh and Coulter followers can spew. Nothing more.

Bush is the privatize and end social spending president. His allegiance is to corporations. He has no problem tossing trillions to war profiteers while the poor in this country including the poor children get nothing but empty words.