All Bush Has Done Is Kill People
The New York Times reported yesterday that President Bush would veto a bill being proposed that would increase funding for Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which would effectively provide basic health insurance to over 4 million American children.
Why? Seriously, I am asking. Why would anyone veto that?
Oh yes. Because, in order to continue killing Americans in Iraq, Bush needs the money that this bill would require to prevent American deaths here. Moreover, much of the money that this bill would require, which would prevent American deaths, would be funded by a significant tax on cigarettes, inevitably reducing smoking by some margin and preventing more American deaths.
Let’s recap. Bush, who must have a strong desire to kill as many Americans as possible, would rather continue his admittedly dysfunctional, futile war, resulting in American deaths, at the expense of clever health policies, the avoidance of which will result in American deaths.
Has any president ever impeded the scientific and medical progress so blatantly as Bush has? I honestly cannot believe the state of politics in this country at the moment.
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