Child Health Care Splits White House and States

[The trouble with an oligarchy is that wealthy people either have no imaginative outreach to those in need or else in this country particularly rationalize why their problems -- including children's -- are their own fault -- a sick expansion of Calvinism's doctrine of predestination (you get what you deserve from the moment of birth). Calvin got himself into trouble by rigidly following out the logic of theodicy -- the notion of a three way trilemma in which only two of the following propositions can be true: 1) God is all powerful, 2) God is all good, 3) Real evil exists. The Augustinian and Calvinist answer was the notion of original sin -- every child is the product of sex, thus sin, thus deserving of punishment unless rescued by God. If you have problems, it is your own damned fault -- sick world view!!! And very convenient for both types of U.S. conservatives -- the religious feel goods and the greedies. Ed Kent]

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Child Health Care Splits White House and States
By ROBERT PEAR
Governors pressed President Bush to provide more money so
they could guarantee health insurance for children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/washington/27govs.html?th&emc=th
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