> > What's <a href="[www.usatoday.com] Today</a> say? <br>> > <br>> > $2.4 fucking TRILLION. <br>> > <br>> > Good thing that Bush vetoed the health bill for kids that would've cost.. $35 billion. <br>> > <br>> > 2,400,000,000,000 v. <br>> > 35,000,000,000 <br>> > <br>> > And hey, even some Republicans have <a href="[www.nytimes.com] of a conscience</a> to vote for it. (New York Times!) <br>> <br>> Bush has asked two things: <br>> <br>> 1) He will approve it based on normal federal funding, he's not in favor of an exercise tax on cigarettes to pay for it because it assumes a 62% decrease in spending in 2012 (which is incredibly unlikely to happen). It would require more people to pick up smoking, in a time when more and more people are quitting smoking rather than picking it up, in order to maintain funding. <br>> <br>> 2) He has stated that the elligability should be double the poverty line, not quadruple the poverty line. In other words, people making $80,000 a year should not be elligible until we've already enrolled all the poor in the program. <br>> <br>> I'm not surprised these two stipulations you are unaware, its hard to find quotes from Bush in most of these articles. They seem to, instead, focus on merely the fact that he's vetoing it rather than <b>why</b> he's vetoing it. <br>> <br>> Please point out a post, on a sidenote, where I support the federal funding for continued occupation of Iraq. I've consistently been an opponent of the vast sum of military spending we've been doing.