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Her sign ought to read “Bush demands accountability from parents” or, “If Democrats weren’t rolling in pork, I could visit the doctor”
(Photo from the 11 Alive Website)

This is a very interesting photo. The little girls name is Sophie Black and she’s four years old. Now, how is it that she is out there protesting? She did not drive herself out there, that’s for sure. I know, somebody must have brought her there. And maybe if that person was working today rather than wasting their time at a protest the little girl might not need government insurance. I certainly don’t know the situation- but I know I’ve never attended a protest because I’ve never had the time to leave my job and go whine about what somebody is not giving to me because I mistakenly think I’m owed something.

Besides, why not blame the folks truly responsible for the SCHIPS veto rather than Bush? As this AP report on the 11 Alive site points out, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said it is the Democrats out of control spending that threatens the so-called “children’s insurance” entitlement.

Republicans certainly aren’t helping the spending crisis themselves. But the real question is what will happen to all those children if this new entitlement is prevented from raping the taxpayers even further?

I don’t know- but what I do know is that it is not governments place to do anything about it. As I pointed out yesterday, this is a scam. Unfortunately, a Wall Street Journal/Harris Poll seems to indicate that Americans supported the SCHIPS proposal by a margin of four to one. This only demonstrates, of course, that the majority can be wrong. Anyone who believes government should take care of children by releasing the parent or parents from the responsibility is a socialist.

But most people are sheep anyway. I remember high school and how if certain students did things then you, too, would want to do them. It’s the herd mentality, I suppose. To be cool, you have to fit in and care what other people think about you. Fortunately, I’ve not had that problem since I grew out of adolescences. Oh, sure- from time to time anyone can fall to peer pressure. And, usually, there are innocent enough results. But in government that’s just not a viable option.

Oftentimes you will hear about the latest poll and how this many Americans feel this way or that way. Politicians (Bill Clinton in particularly, justly or unjustly so viewed) will seek out this info and blow whatever way is popular and to the devil with whatever personal moral values they have that tell them to resist. I have no idea what it is like to be able to sit aside your values and follow a crowd but clearly many people do. They don’t realize that sheep and cows belong in pastures, not in the halls of Congress or in the White House.

That’s one thing I admire about Bush. He’s made his share of mistakes by, for example, allowing Social Security to continue to exist as is, by presiding over an ever expanding government, by not shutting our borders down, etc. But despite these mistakes I still admire him because he doesn’t blow around like a feather in the wind. He remains constant and doesn’t really care what others think of him.

If only everyone had the wisdom to understand that a thing is not right, like SCHIPS, just because a majority feels that it is right. So don’t quote polls to me- I don’t care. Again, I don’t care. I repeat yet again- polls a meaningless to me. Got it yet, POLLS DON’T MATTER TO ME.

What’s right matters, period.