Cross posted @ http://www.standingbeforethefire.com
The President’s veto of 35 billion dollars over 5 yearsfor children’s health care is amazing considering his signing of Medicare part D, at a cost of 700 Billion dollars over 10 years (Much of it corporate welfare to big pharma). Is it really more important that we help old people, who have already enjoyed 60-90 years on earth, get prescription drugs then expand the SCHIP program, at 1/10th of the cost? This is the same president who signed the 2002 farm bill, which results in farming subsidies of 25 billion a year, subsidies which mostly went to big agriculture. This makes the veto seem perplexing, unless one considers the lack of corporate welfare in this bill.(more in the body).
Bush is the <ahref="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/20767.html">biggest spender in the White House since Lyndon Johnson. Unlike Johnson, his spending is not intended to improve social welfare but to improve the corporate welfare of big business. The "Conservative" movement in America no longer advocates small government. That movement is dead and buried and has been replaced with a philosophy of crony capitalism. The movement now is determined to transform spending on social welfare to spending on corporate welfare. Everyone should stop pretending the modern day republican party has any association with the idea of small or limited government. What it has morphed into is much scarier.