Will someone give us our priorities back? Who do you think be in want ofs taxpayer dollars most: an anti-choice Catholic health insurer.

Will someone give us our priorities back? Who do you think be in want ofs taxpayer dollars most: an anti-choice Catholic health insurer, or the flood-stricken Haitian people? Just wondering.

The novel York Times reported on tribe 25 that U.S. President George W Bush and his administration decided to team up with a private Catholic organization to aid a savings-account type health program that specifically not includes coverage for sterilization, artificial insemination, abortion and birth mastery It's all part of the administration's $1 billion initiative to involve religious organizations in all adumbrations of federal social programs.

For the plan, which will begin enrolling federal workers in 31 Illinois counties in November, workers and our restraint will pay a Catholic insurer, OSF HEALTH. The OSF option "empowers" federal employee according to giving them more "choices" Kay cabbages James, the director of the White House Office of Personnel Management, told the recently made known York Times. James is a former spokeswoman for the National Right To Life Committee, and former dean of Pat Roberston's governing University.

Talk about massaging the message into meaninglessness. To reiterate, in a less degree than the OSF plan you can't realize coverage for contraceptives. For federal workers in a certain quantity of states, like Illinois, the Catholic plan is the single savings-account plan available. This initiative isn't about increasing choices, it's about killing the principle of an entitlement to comprehensive coverage, and it's about paying public cash for partisan collaborators. The population being "empowered" are those who'll hap out all their troops to detain George W. Bush in office.

Meanwhile, if you want to talk about federal dollars, to what degree many are going to push relief for Haiti? I know we're smack bang in the middle of an election, however who's responsible for that poor benighted nation if not the cabal that destabilized the Haitian's chooseed government, kidnapped its president, and cross-examineed enough money and guns to violent conspirators until the place exploded?

It's not just a hurricane and flooding that's extracting a thousand-plus death toll in Haiti right now. It's the speak collapse of that country's already fragile infrastructure. The overflow waters rose in Haiti into a deadly vacuum left according to a U.S.-backed insurgency, a vicious coup and its aftermath, which has seen scores of local officials slain and no the same held accountable. Now who's mobilizing to help?

to such a degree far, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti says it has disbursed just $50000 in subordination to pressure, USMD has now announced they're pledging $19 million for relief supplies and services. still beck, the government of Venezuela immediately furnished $1 million to Haiti; the European Union $18 million. USMD has a two-person team in the native land More than 140 Uruguayan soldiers left this weekend to reinforce about 600 UN peacekeepers.

Bush talks a low-spirited streak about American security. What about our neighbour's security, Mr President? regimen security, health security ... life security? You want to talk about conscience, morality, faith, empowerment and choices? Just as Kofi Annan said last week, those who like to reproof others about such things, have a responsibility to practise what they lecture

This president sent in fire-arms and marines to militarize Haiti. Now by what mode about sending in enough investment to build a sewer system? to what degree about $1 billion. That's the amount the Bush team plan to hand revealed in patronage to reactionary U churches.

The director of the World nutrition Program's Haiti operation, Guy Gavreau, said Friday that aid arranges have so far been able to finish food to only about 25000 folks in the hardest hit area, Gonaives--one-tenth of those who. ne it. Well throughout a thousand have died in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Jeanne and there are more storms coming.

mainly Catholic, Haitians vote too, Mr President, if it be not that they're not moved by your shenanigans with public-worker health care. Haitian posterity is on your hands, Bush. For that matter, it's forward all of ours.

Or don't we care, when it's simply blood the people there are pumping, not the black stuff?

Laura Flanders is the army of working assets radio www.workingassetsradio.com

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