Via Michelle Malkin, A little refreshing honesty from Iowa’s former governor, Democrat Tom Nutsack:
I’ve said it all along: The Democrats’ massive S-CHIP expansion is a Trojan Horse for Hillarycare. Now, we get it straight from the horse’s mouth. A Hill source sends an audio clip of former Iowa Dem. Governor Tom Vilsack at Drake University on Nov. 16 describing how S-CHIP will help achieve those universal entitlement ends:
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Transcript:
“I think there is going to be a commitment to universal coverage. I don’t think it’s necessarily going to be a sector by sector process. I think you either need to go in whole hog or not. We tried to sort of squeeze the middle here with doing children and doing seniors, and trying to squeeze it. If anything happens, it would more likely look something like this: you would extend eligibility for children from 200% of poverty to 300% of poverty, and create resources to insure the parents of those children.”
Democrats are all about socialism, and if they can’t get it in one whack, then they’ll try it incrementally. Ballsack admits as much.
I’m sorry but your children are not my responsibility. They are yours. I fyou want me to be responsible for them then DO NOT BITCH when I teach them self-reliance, Christian values and morals, that there are consequences to their actions AND inactions, and when I spank them. If having a new SUV and a home that you can only afford on a teaser interest rate that is only good for this year but will become out of your price range next year when the rate goes up to the regular rate that YOUR problem not mine. Take responsibility for your own family.
Comment by WMD_Maker — November 19, 2007 @ 2:53 pm
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