Liberal Oregon hates The Chiiiiiiiildren
Well, I hope the national Democrat leadership and their S-CHIP-peddling minions are paying attention. You know that brilliant idea of funding children’s health insurance with tobacco taxes? Liberal Oregon said no yesterday, voting down a massive tobacco tax hike ballot measure to pay for government-subsidized health care:
Oregon’s working poor will have to wait a while longer to get health-care coverage for their children.
Voters easily defeated Measure 50, a plan to raise tobacco taxes to provide universal health care for children after a record-shattering negative ad campaign financed by cigarette companies.
The measure went down by a wide margin, both statewide and in Marion and Polk counties.
Dubbed the Healthy Kids Program, Measure 50 was a top priority of Gov. Ted Kulongoski and fellow Democrats in the Oregon Legislature. Democrats placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot when they couldn’t get enough Republican votes to pass it outright or submit it to voters as a simple statute.
“The tobacco industry won this battle,” Kulongoski told a somber crowd of Measure 50 supporters in Portland. “But they will not win the war.”
In Salem, pediatrician James Lace said tobacco companies ran an effective campaign, “and they outspent us 4 to 1.”
“I think it failed because people got confused by the whole issue of the constitutional amendment,” he said .
J.L. Wilson, a spokesman for the RJ Reynolds campaign to defeat the tax increase, said the tobacco companies’ $12 million budget helped, but only because it raised legitimate concerns about Measure 50.
“Ultimately I think the measure collapsed under its own weight,” Wilson said.
Supporters of the measure blame the evil tobacco industry’s ad campaign for misleading voters. But it’s S-CHIP supporters who are the manipulators. The electorate in Oregon soundly rejected the plan not because they are gullible and stupid and “confused,” but because they looked past the kiddie human shields and saw the regressive tax increase and entitlement expansion Trojan Horse for what they were:
Bad, bad ideas.
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your choice of tune always made me laugh like mad. “Sylvia’s Mother”…gave us Dr Hook…OMG Hide the kids!
“Dear Prudence”
OT-
One more item before lighting BBQ.
Go SC!!!!!
Ore Gone
OT:
Aj- put the chicken on the grill this time. Neighbors are concerned about you using a hub cap out on the curb.
Do it for your kids. Please?
Is barbecue taxed in Oregon?
Struggling through tonight on Red Snapper followed by caught this afternoon Key West Lobster and then having to struggle around that nasty Key Lime Pie.
Rough job but someone has to do it.
CPR OT - It’s the compressions that matter more than the breathing with CPR if the person has had a heart attack evidently. I’m not an MD and don’t sue but but there was a Japanese study published in The Lancet that came to that conclusion. Compress away swj…
Note that victims of drowning, choking or overdoses may still need breathing.
Article about the study here.
/OT
Comment Guy 106:
Hang in there, Soldier. Make sure you have reinforcements, er, i meant, seconds.
Signed,
General Bear1909
ok Bear …just couldn’t resist here …
When I uttered “If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body” to “Sylvia’s Mother” I was hoping we’d be “Sharing the Night Together”. I thought I had “All The Time in the World” because “When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman” you expect to see her “Sexy Eyes” on “The Cover of the Rolling Stone”. …
29Victor: (Re: #80)… Thank You.
#88 swj719AWG said:
“I’ve been to some of the more “out of the way” places in OR, and they make the deep south look like the 22nd centure. There are towns that are there merely by the grace of god and retirement/Social Security payments, because I swear one didn’t even have a gas station that wasn’t closed.”
“And the rest of the regulars find Feebie plenty charming. Thankfully, your approval of her is not required.”
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SWJ, you are absolutely right that those places you describe exist in Oregon and every other state. But small, back country towns that lack a gas station do not a third world make, sad or otherwise. My point was that there is no valid comparison between these towns and “third world”.
And now, finally, I bow down – salaam, salaam – to “the rest of the regulars” who rise up in defense of Feebie The Plenty Charming.
Woe betide the interloper who comes from outside the circle of The Rest of the Regulars and dares to be not blinded by the brightness of The Plenty Charming.
Be forewarned . . . The Regulars do not approve.
Spooky stuff.
DesertL #109:
Some discographic finesse is always appreciable, even if the musician is a TB
No truer words were ever
spokenwrit.Best you heed them.
You gotta love Feebs!
Anyone else would not have eaten crow.
*Bandwagon…it’s what I do.
An Open Letter To SylviaMarie (if she checks this again):
I would just like to preface my comment here by saying that I am not one of The Regulars (I just registered this week) and I know pretty much nothing about feebiebabe…
I realize that neither of you needs someone else speaking for them, but I’ve been following your game of Pong and I wanted to weigh in. You seem to dismiss anyone defending feebiebabe as being part of some Malkin secret society that looks out for it’s own (which they may well do) and therefore consider their comments to be invalid. I am not part of this secret society, so maybe you will consider what I have to say here.
I can understand your initial bristling at feebie’s first comment, I didn’t agree with the strength of you opposition, but you were defending your home state and that makes sense. However, the way you have chosen to do so is not the best, in my opinion. I know that it is hard to assess tone from written posts, but everything you write seems to be dripping with venom. Every time you posted something on this thread, it read as though you were spitting on her. I can’t speak for the whole Malkin community, but speaking for myself, your tone won’t get you very far in civilized debate and you may want to consider working on it.
We love everyone (or give it the ol’ college try to) not so fond of liver and onions though.
IMHO, of course.
To RaisedRight:
I take your point. And I think you’re right.
Yesterday was a terrible day for me. A new day and your comment make me realize that I did spit venom for no good reason — only to vent, and Feebs didn’t deserve it.
I do certainly know how to comment without becoming an attack dog, but I sure didn’t show that yesterday.
I’m sorry, Feebie.
And thank you, RaisedRight. I appreciate your input.
SylviaMarie, I appreciate your response and look forward to your future comments on this site. I hope today is going better for you.
SylviaMarie_
Not to worry. No apology necessary.
Everyone, thanks.
We got a secret handshake and everything!
Your membership form is in the mail.
Feebiebabe, I’m so glad you checked in to the thread again. I was looking for you on a more recent thread hoping to refer you back to here so I could apologize. But here you are and got my message, and that’s good.
I did forget one other important thing.
swj719AWG, I’m sorry for my very snippy response to your comment. Also undeserved.
I won’t be commenting for quite a while, I think — the absence related to events in my personal life — but I hope if and when I rejoin this civilized discourse, my name will not be connected with mud, but with mistake and remorse.
If swj doesn’t check back into this old thread, would one of you kind folks, when you see him on another thread, refer him back here to receive my apology?
Thanks for being understanding and forgiving.
Sylvia - please no apologies necessary. I have had a few witchee-poo moments myself. Foot in mouth should be my middle name. Stuff happens!
Hope things go better for you personally. Look forward to hearing from you again.
I’ll let swj know if i see him. I’m pretty busy myself gearing up for the holiday maddness i know as family gatherings!
Take care.
gee, wheres my love back.. sniff.
Woo-hoo! Another Marion county resident with some sense. Too bad we didn’t have more of them in the Capitol…
In regards to rural Oregon, I spent half of my life living in Eastern Oregon, and there is nothing third world about it. It may be somewhat poor (oops, except for Bend, which has some of the most expensive real estate in the state), but people have jobs, people get by, and there is nary a town without a gas station. Eastern Oregon used to thrive, but then they built I-5 (Hwy 395 used to be the major trucking route) and then the environuts shut down the majority of logging in the state. Whole towns practically vanished because of that. Of course, there really isn’t a place in the state where you can stand and not see a tree (except parts of downtown Portland), but the environuts tell us we are running out.
Oregon is a very sane place, with islands of insanity known as Portland, Eugene, Ashland, and Salem fights back and forth. Save us from the blue!
Please, I check all threads upon which I lpace a helping of my “wit”.
No harm no foul, Synthia. We just get mean when people attack freinds. It’s a normal response. I was probably I little less civil than I should have been (Read: I was pretty rude).