Senator Mitch McConnell’s Best Friend, George Bush Shows His Contempt For Seniors And The Military With His Veto Pen!!
Jim Pence July 15th, 2008
President Bush vetoed a bill blocking Medicare and Tricare pay cuts to doctors, but congress tells him to go to Hell and overrides the veto. The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly by a 383-41 vote to override President Bush’s veto and the Senate vote was 70-26 .
Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning continued to show their disdain for seniors and the military and voted to uphold the George Bush’ veto!
This time next year I hope George W. Bush is living on his 100,000 acres in Paraguay because he won’t be welcomed here in the United States by seniors like me! He can hire Blackwater to protect him from the International Courts that will surely indict him for crimes against humanity , and George will find a good supply of cocaine in Paraguay to sniff up his nose and plenty of room to go hunting with "Shotgun" Dick Cheney!
I can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 2008 KY U.S. Senate Race , George W. Bush , Jim Bunning , Medicare , Mitch McConnell , Paraguay , Tricare
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Damn these bastards all to hell! Damn the main stream media for their lousy reporting on it!
At least we didn’t have to get Sen. Edward Kennedy out of his sick bed again.
the MSM is the same in Ky 01 everyday we see a news release from either McConnell are Whitfield office In the the newspapers. one of the newspapers refused to run a letter to the paper from Ryan. and you wonder why nothing ever ran about the democrat candidates.
Mitch, and Bunning want to make this lack of health insurance WORSE!!
Americans live shorter lives than citizens of almost every other developed nation, according to a report from several US charities.
The report found that the US ranked 42nd in the world for life expectancy despite spending more on health care per person than any other country.
The US report identifies obesity and the lack of health insurance for some 47 million Americans as the most significant factors in premature death.
Overall, the American Human Development Report ranked the world’s richest country 12th for human development.
The study looked at US government data on health, education and income.
The report was funded by Oxfam America, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Conrad Hilton Foundation.
The report combines measurements of health, education and income into one measurement - the human development index - based on that used by the United Nations.
Health insurance
The report, Measure of America, identifies significant progress in the US in the last 50 years.
Life expectancy - which averages 78 - has risen eight years since 1960.
Japan has the world’s highest life expectancy - 82.1 years - according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The US report identifies obesity and the lack of health insurance for some 47 million Americans as the most significant factors in premature death.
It also provides a snapshot of the inequalities between the richest and the poorest Americans and between different ethnic groups.
“The Measure of America reveals huge gaps among some groups in our country to access opportunity and reach their potential,” said the report’s author, Sarah Burd-Sharps.
“Some Americans are living anywhere from 30 to 50 years behind others when it comes to issues we all care about: health, education and standard of living.
“For example, the state human development index shows that people in last-ranked Mississippi are living 30 years behind those in first-ranked Connecticut.”
Rich north-east
Asian males in the US were found to have the highest human development index score and were expected to live 14 years longer than African-American males, who had the lowest human development index rating.
African-Americans had a shorter lifespan than the average American did in the late 1970s.
The report further breaks down its findings into the US’s 436 Congressional districts.
The 20th district, around Fresno, California, was ranked last - with people earning one-third as much as residents of the top-ranked US district,- in Manhattan, New York.
The US north-east has the highest overall ranking because people there earn more, are more highly-educated and have the second highest life expectancy.
West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama are four of the five bottom states on the index. Mississippi is ranked lowest.
Among other findings:
Of the world’s richest nations, the US has the most children (15%) living in poverty
Of the OECD nations, the US has the most people in prison - as a percentage and in absolute numbers
25% of 15-year-old students performed at or below the lowest level in an international maths test - worse than Canada, France, Germany and Japan
If the US infant mortality rate were equal to first-ranked Sweden, more than 20,000 babies would survive beyond their first year of life
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7511426.stm
If it wasn’t so sad, I would find it amusing that a O’Democrat claims to be concerned about 20,000 more babies might better survive their frist year of life, when you support the government paying for the murder of 4,000 babies a day during the first nine months of their lives.
Leon Johnson,
That’s tired old stuff Leon. It’s a fact that folks like you don’t care about babies and that’s why the policies you support cause the US to have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the entire world. You and your policies are the murderous ones.
Jim