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Kennedy: "Every Child In America Should Have a Healthy Start...It's Not Complicated" [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 2:58 PM on July 31, 2007.


Senator Kennedy battles Republicans in the Senate in favor of health care for children. "What would the American people rather have? Coverage for their children or continued conflict in Iraq?"
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In the video to your right, Senator Ted Kennedy expresses an anger that many Americans feel right now about the Republican Party's passionate resistance to positive health care reform in this country. Their latest step backward is a Bush embraced attempt to revoke the health care of millions of American children. Members of the GOP, like Trent Lott, are resisting health care for children because it would mean higher taxes on cigarettes and Kennedy is understandably fed up. He talks about the everyday struggles uninsured parents must endure to care for their kids in a stirring oratory. As Kennedy says, "What would the American people rather have? Coverage for their children or continued conflict in Iraq?"

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Jul 31, 2007 7:14 PM   
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Bush doesn't give a shit. Its simple.

C'mon, Tedward.. don't tell me an old hand like you is still naive enough not to see things like that. No, wait.. DO tell me that... because otherwise you just aren't saying what you know to be true.

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These child advocates seem to forget...
Posted by: sphoenix on Aug 1, 2007 7:23 AM   
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That these kids grow up and then what? We've seen this same, "Save the Children" crap going on for over 40 years...going back into the 1960's at least. We've tried to STC in Africa and other 3rd world countries and for what? So that they can grow up into crushing poverty, without hope of a decent education, or quality of life. Just what are we saving the children for? Slavery?

Don't get me wrong...I think that universal health care is a great idea...but it will never happen in Korporate Amerika...because the big money runs this country and is not going to let go...no matter what!! They want these kids just healthy enough to become the walking zombie workforce of the New World Order. I think Ted probably needs to drink as much as he does so that he can force those blasphemous words to come out of his mouth day after day.

I look at life pretty simply. I don't care what people say too much, it is their actions which prove their intent. Hey Ted, and the rest of Congress...how about taking some of the extra millions you all have lying around in your personal bank accounts and walking your talk? Pony up some dough and help out those people you talk so strongly for. Why don't you put up that money and save some children yourselves?

Oh, that's right, WE THE PEOPLE are supposed to pay for it, aren't we? That's why you have to create these laws instead of being philanthropists yourselves. Laws to FORCE the people to pay for your ludicrous policies...that will save the children...so that you can all enslave them.

Am I sounding too cynical yet...if not, I'll try harder next time.

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Give Ted a Break
Posted by: on Aug 1, 2007 8:25 PM   
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I don't see why people are going after Senator Kennedy; he's just saying what makes sense. Of course Bush (and most Republicans) don't give a shit. Of course they are looking out for their korporate sponsors (wait...why do we replace "c" with "k" to make a point?)

His words really hit me where it hurts now, because my daughter is sick right this very minute--has been for over a week--and we have no health care coverage. So, I'm trying to determine in my mind if a trip to the pediatrician is worth it, given that it seems to be a virus, and given the economic hardship it would represent.

This country surely has gone to hell.

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» Why go after Ted? Posted by: JoshuaLudd