Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Don't Forget, John McCain Opposed Children's Health Care Bill.

If you have kids and are worried about getting and keeping affordable health insurance for them then don't look to John McCain. President "approval rating of 29%" Bush vetoed the popular and effective state children's health insurance program (S-CHIP). John McCain helped put the veto pen in Bush's hand by voting against the bill that would put millions of uninsured children on a plan. It is sick how much money that we are wasting in Iraq with that hopeless occupation while the number of uninsured children here at home rise faster and higher each year of the war.

What does it say about our society If we can't even sacrifice a bit to see more of our innocent children get the health care that they need and deserve? If John McCain doesn't even support taking better care of our children then how do you think he is going to help adults and seniors? McCain's health care plan basically says, "Don't get sick."

John McCain is out of step on health care with a large majority of Americans, 72% of people polled approved the renewal of S-CHIP while only 25% opposed it. There is an education impact here as well. How can we expect many of our children to improve their education scores if they are constantly sick and out of school because of not having adequate health care? If the children are our future then Barack Obama is clearly the best candidate to take our kids into a better future than we saw. He is the candidate with the vision to see what needs to be done to renew America to give optimum opportunities for our youngest citizens.

He is the candidate of change who is pushing the creation and increased growth incentives for "green collar" jobs so that our kids in places like Michigan have more choices for job employment as they enter the work force. Think how much faster we could build these type of companies and how much more people we could employ if we used some of the Iraq war money to help the green economy grow.

I have seen the potential and success of the green economy first hand with my wife working for a green company. They are growing quickly and can't hire people fast enough and the same goes for two other major green companies that have come to the area. People are applying for these jobs in droves so the demand is there.

John McCain maybe a little "greener" than many conservatives but he's not taking the bold, decisive and progressive steps toward a major shift in our economy toward green jobs like Barack. It's a win-win that Obama is talking about all across the country, we gain more jobs and bring down fuel costs. As well as help reduce the effects of global warming. John McCain has nothing on Obama in regards to the environment with "Mr. Environment" and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore on Barack's side to name yet another advantage for Obama. An advantage that ultimately is about the American people.

John McCain is not the candidate of the future but rather the president of "stay the course" and we all know where that path has taken us and our kids.

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4 comments:

Robert Rouse said...

That's the way you do it. You play the guitar on the MT - no wait, wrong quote. You continue to dispel the lies and obfuscation of McCain and his McCamp-Pain!

Handsome B. Wonderful said...

Robert:

Ha!! Dire Straights!! We certainly ARE in dire straights right now in this country. I'll keep doing my best to beat back the bullshit thrown at Obama and the American people.

We must break free of past 8 years and thinking McCain isn't like Bush on the most important issues is like putting lipstick on a big. You can't polish a turd as they say.

Sean Keller said...

One thing that's important to note and we bring it up at http://www.greencollareconomy.com all the time is that being as far behind the global green economy as America is, we are almost guarenteed to transition into it sooner or later. That being said, the Democrats do have the ideals neccesary to get the movement going faster. The quicker we get going on green and clean technologies, the quicker we can catch up to the rest of the world.

Handsome B. Wonderful said...

Sean:

You're quite right. It will take sacrifice and that is not something that Americans are use to. At least not since the Great Depression and WWII.

We need to humble ourselves and come together to fight this global, Earth threating problem. We need to commit to whatever it takes. We need a bold vision to commit to something like a Manhattan Project or the project to go to the Moon in the '60s.