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Originally Posted by dc_dux
You say I ignore the problems with the program. I would suggest you ignore the incredible success and popularity of the program that has been clearly and unambiguously expressed by those closer to it than you or I.
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There is no basis for the above comment based on what I have written here. It does not logically follow that the fact that I point out the weaknesses in the program that means I ignore the programs successes.
I don't care what others say about the program, I know we can do better. If the program at whatever funding level is good enough for you, so be it.
I am catching on to the pretense of the Democratic party and how they "care" about poor people. They can keep their programs designed to entrap the poor into staying poor by adding layers of disincentives to earn income and accumulate assets or to turn them into people who have cheat/game the system.
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In any case, we can continue the discussion after Bush signs a bill that is more than his $5 billion and less than the Congressional $35 billion."If putting poor children first takes a little more than the 20% increase I have proposed in my budget for SCHIP, I am willing to work with leaders in Congress to find the additional money," Bush said in his weekly radio address. 
An interesting article in the NY TImes from 1997 that describes how the odd couple of Ted Kennedy and Orin Hatch, pushed through the idea of tobacco tax to fund the first SCHIP.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...5BC0A961958260
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Wasn't the program passed when Republicans controlled Congress? Funny how people worked together to get something done that many thought originally was not possible. Like I said we can do better, to bad Congress is currently too busy tilting at windmills and calling the President "heartless", "lier", "criminal", etc, etc, etc,etc. There is such a negative tone being set by the party with a core belief in "diplomacy" to get things done.