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ahippi - a commenter on a vid - pioneer world peace thru laziness.
The president cuts Medicare and Medicaid in his FY 2007 budget: $5 billion will be cut over five years from Medicaid -- money that the country will spend in 2½ weeks in Iraq; $36 billion is slated for cuts in Medicare -- or about what the president will spend in a little more than 4½ months in Iraq.
At the price of 12 hours in Iraq, the president's budget cuts off food packages for 400,000 elderly poor people from the supplemental food program.
for the cost of every 1½ months in Iraq -- about $15 billion -- we could provide health insurance for one year for 9 million children who now go without. Children who go without adequate health care when they are young find it more difficult to learn, and are more likely to develop chronic illnesses. We are not only stealing from their promise, we are adding to our own future health care bills.
So when the president calls for an escalation in Iraq, remember the price tag that he won't mention -- in the lives and limbs of young men and women, in children without nutrition and health care, the elderly without food and heating aid, and security in our own neighborhoods. We are a wealthy nation, but we cannot squander what economists estimate may total up to $2 trillion on a misbegotten war abroad without paying the price here at home.

Rant shall be forthcoming.

Links for yesterday


No one likes Americahttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/23_01_07_us_poll.pdf
Climate change is a threathttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2813490&page=1
Spoiled bratshttp://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1581036,00.html
US Dick Wagging at Iranhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6264761.stm
Democrats finally coming outhttp://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-22T210149Z_01_N22191773_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-ROCKEFELLER.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage3