[lbo-talk] a rare outburst of reason

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 1 17:48:39 PDT 2007


Health Spending Trumps in Guns vs. Butter Debate

Americans overwhelmingly support increased funding for children's health insurance, and just as broadly oppose an additional $190 billion for the war in Iraq -- a guns-and-butter battle that's helping to keep George W. Bush at his career-low job approval rating.

Seventy-two percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll support a $35 billion increase in the federally funded State Children's Health Insurance Program, rejecting the president's argument that it would expand coverage too broadly. Intensity is against him as well: People who "strongly" support the bill outnumber its strong opponents by 3-1.

See the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll at http://abcnews.go.com/ US/story?id=3675036&page=1.



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