Buffalo Boy's Blog

George W. is going to turn down $50 Billion in war funding if it has anything to do with ending the war. This came last Wednesday as congress began debating the proposed funding. It seems when ever this President makes a decision he is doing to us exactly what the picture above shows.

I borrowed the picture from Freddie P. Freddie talks a big conservative talk in Canada but Conservatives in Canada are like the most liberal politicians here. I guarantee you there is not a politician in Canada who couldn't find some good use for $50 billion, if it was going to be turned down to end the war, they would try to use it to fund something useful. .

Rod Watson wrote yesterday in the Buffalo News how that $50 billion could go to good use in this article. He is absolutely on the ball with this. He brings up things that are obvious being Thanksgiving day like turkey dinners and feeding the homeless on this holiday, but most importantly, he brings up funding children's health care and even more significant, how close to universal health care could that $50 billion take us?

What are we so afraid of when it comes to guaranteeing health care for all Americans and providing the stipulation that no health related company will make a profit off the sick in this country?

He also talks about Head Start whome my wife teaches for, a year or so ago they decreased health benefits for Head Start teachers. Decreased benefits for teachers who make about $25,000 a year in that program.

Those are very important teachers in the overall picture because they deal with kids who come out of poor socio-economic areas who need to get the early head start on education because they will probably need it at some point due to their disadvantaged living situation. It is a fact that kids from poor socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to present with learning disabilities and other delays/disabilities that will affect their education. So getting that is imperative. Instead lets just throw it away unless it is going to keep his war machine moving.  

So, for today, Im giving thanks that we only have a little over one more year with the idiot at the top left hand corner of this blog, I can hardly stand to type the mans name anymore. It will be a year that can not go by fast enough.