Bush signs bill cutting student loans, Medicare

[Chicky 0]

I've had to use Medicare and Food Stamps in the past and they allowed me to find work and pay taxes, so I don't care that my tax dollars go to help people who are having a hard time like I did at one point in time. If you want to be selfish and not help others, well you fit right in with Bush Carol&Marc, do you also take food from babies?

And I do agree they need to cut underperforming agencies, grants, etc but like ET said, he doesn't seem to make many cuts when it comes to Homeland Security.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Quote: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare (note: in this instance meaning health happiness, prosperity and wellbeing), and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

(Italics and bold text are mine)

Guess where thats from?

So..we can only have welfare if we can afford it? Guess they missed that part out of the Constitution.

And I wonder if he knows what the result of poor education can be - usually its malcontentment and sows seeds of an underclass..and underclasses have been known to overthrow govts if they get big enough. There goes 'domestic tranquility' as well

And who will run and staff big businesses in order to compete with other nations if today's low wage earners who have children won't be educated?

Just a point.

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...."

--James Madison, author of the Constitution

[Fischkoepfin 1]

I'm still in favor of letting tax payers determine how they want to see the money they pay used. Mine would go to exclusively health care, education, and public transport. As a pacifist, I'm opposed to the majority of my taxes going towards defense spending.

A country that blows $ 400+ billion on its military and defense budget, but needs to slash expenses for much smaller programs has a severe priority problem. How about ending agricultural, business and oil industry subsidies or trying to pass bill that do not include billions of dollars in pork (remember those bridges in the uninhabited areas of Alaska)??

Edited February 9, 2006 by Fischkoepfin

[almaty 19]

He really is a pecker.

A better educated, more healthy workforce is a more productive workforce. When will people get this through their heads! It's not a case of being conservative or liberal, it's a case of being long term and smart in view.

Urg. We're just going to end up with a nation full of assclowns.

chopf##k is a better name in my opinion

[Melo 1]

I think the bloke wants to ensure that there are others created in his image... complete morons who don't know their ####### from their elbow