National Priorities
Sep. 18th, 2007 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaIt was an interesting trip in this morning.
My drive to and from work is generally a treat for me. I get to let my head clear, watch the passing scenery, marvel at this county's beauty and bounty, or catch up with a friend or two on the phone. It's also a time I get to listen to KQED, something I rarely get to do at home, as reception is poor and my husband prefers the politics of KPFA, better known in our home as Radio Free Berkeley.
In any event this morning was KQED time. Michael Krasny was hosting an economist, who's name I did not catch, who was talking about the financial ramifications of our current administrations actions. I've been agrivating about the monies that have been poured into that Iraqi rathole for quite sometime. The nameless economist quoted on stat that truly disturbed me. On what we'll spend in Iraqi in the next six months EVERY child in this country to age 21 could have full access to health care, till their 21st birthday. EVERY CHILD. No exceptions.
Instead the current administration is fighting extending coverage in the SCHIP programs to larger number of kids. It's a philosophic difficulty our president and his adminisration has.
Which is our greater obligation; to care for our nation'c children who are our future, or to destroy the infrastructure of the Iraqi society and help create a civil war there? The more I think about it the sicker I feel.
My drive to and from work is generally a treat for me. I get to let my head clear, watch the passing scenery, marvel at this county's beauty and bounty, or catch up with a friend or two on the phone. It's also a time I get to listen to KQED, something I rarely get to do at home, as reception is poor and my husband prefers the politics of KPFA, better known in our home as Radio Free Berkeley.
In any event this morning was KQED time. Michael Krasny was hosting an economist, who's name I did not catch, who was talking about the financial ramifications of our current administrations actions. I've been agrivating about the monies that have been poured into that Iraqi rathole for quite sometime. The nameless economist quoted on stat that truly disturbed me. On what we'll spend in Iraqi in the next six months EVERY child in this country to age 21 could have full access to health care, till their 21st birthday. EVERY CHILD. No exceptions.
Instead the current administration is fighting extending coverage in the SCHIP programs to larger number of kids. It's a philosophic difficulty our president and his adminisration has.
Which is our greater obligation; to care for our nation'c children who are our future, or to destroy the infrastructure of the Iraqi society and help create a civil war there? The more I think about it the sicker I feel.
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Date: 2007-09-19 08:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-19 03:26 pm (UTC)We have some very sick, sick, sick priorities in this country. As the child of emigrants, who chose to come to this country, I am ashamed by my goverment as well as horified by it.