Arkansas Blog

Compassionate conservatism.

Recall what Ghandi said when he was asked his view of Western Civilization?

"I think it's a good idea"
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Bush and company are idiots, no doubt. And vicious ones at that.
How about a combined salary of $45,000 for a "middle class" Arkansas family? Good money, huh?
Uh huh.
Now factor in a car payment ot two, three buck a gallon gas (whaddaya wanna bet it's headed there again?), child care, suitable work clothes, housing, food, utilities -- and on and on the list goes.
Our esteemed president wants to be sure that insurance companies don't lose any premiums.
So consider the situation of a young couple I know: one child, two jobs -- thankfully both with paid insurance for mom and dad. But the premiums on the policy with the cheapest "family" coverage is more than $700, nearly twice the individual employee premium. That's $700 a month for one small, healthy, non-accident prone (yet) child. Almost $9,000 a year -- twenty per cent of this family's gross (GROSS!) income. This makes sense?
So the family should buy cheaper, private insurance for the kiddie? Right. Take a gander sometime at the loopholes insurance companies write into their individual policies.
Can we indict the SOB, er, president, for stupidity? Or maybe we are the stupid ones?

"Compassonate conservative." A conservative is someone who has it made and aims to keep it. A compassionate conservative would be someone who may help you out a little, if he thinks you deserve it, if you don't claim any rights about it, if you work hard and cheap for his benefit, and if you are appropriately grateful. Think a plantation owner (planter) who "takes care of his Nigras." It is no coincidence that the South has risen again as solidly Republican.

It's certainly an expansion to call people up 25 "children and to include families with incomes up to $80,000.

What happened to y'all complaining about the deficit?

Face it boys......Cheney-Bush has spent all the money on war to steal some oil. They don't have the bucks to help out sick kids. If I blow all my money on coke and not the liquid kind.....my sick kids would have to do without a visit to the doctor too. It's not their lack of compassion, it's their insanity of spending all the money on war.

Oh...and all that money belongs to you, me and China......so there is a bill paying day down the road for all of us. It won't be long before they tell the old folks to just die, because all the SS money went for bombs too. There will come a day when we are forced to eat the rich. Let us remember the Republicans killed America, not meth-heads, not chicken gutting Mexicans, not dog fighting black guys, not gays, not Paris Hilton, not terrorists.....it was old lumpy white Republicans that did us in. Tsk tsk

So, with the repubs it's like this:

On one hand, you have the corporations wanting to suck as much money as possible out of the middle class and poor,

On the other hand you have children suffering and dying for lack of health care.

Notice what side they are on? It tells the tale.