I can afford it but many cannot
Weren't you the one complaining about how poor people get all the breaks... this is just more of the conservaliberal talk of yours. Pick a side, are you for giving handouts to the helpless or not?
I do not care about the dog thing, it is an example of how lopsided your political stance is. You spend more on a pet than most AVERAGE people spend on healthcare in ten years... that makes you somewhat excentric... I've never met anyone in your situation screaming against handouts but wanting to regulate the profits and prices of a product that is making SOMEONE ELSES LIVING!
Bush isn't using this as a re-election ploy, not anymore than ANYTHING else in his political platform anyways, I look at it as throwing the democrats a bone while being as conservative as possible. I hope his SS plan goes through with privitization so I can stop paying thousands of dollars for a pepper picker to retire on and let the government use it as they see fit until I reach age to POSSIBLY benefit from it. Of corse the plan throws the democrats another bone in its "optional" wording but thats fine with me. Any reform is better than none, but you need to pick a side of the fence for clarity. Its hard to understand when you're so BODLY on this side, then that side, then the other again and want to argue it until blue in the face. If you are moderate then be moderte... you seem to have created bi-polar politics. Even John F Kerry does everything half-ass in his flipflops as not to COMPLETELY alienate one group or the other... learn from the best!