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		<title>War on Salt Ends in Defeat; Bloomberg Hardest Hit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Lowering sodium intake too much may actually increase a person’s risk of some health problems,” Brian Strom, a public health professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, said]]></description>
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<p>In 2010, Mayor Bloomberg declared war on salt. Why salt? Because it was easier than fulfilling his education promises, cutting the city&#8217;s debt or preparing for a major hurricane that would hit the city two years later.</p>
<p>And he&#8217;s still at it. Last March, he banned food donations to the homeless because their salt content couldn&#8217;t be assessed. He pushed for a 25% sodium reduction as part of a National Salt Reduction Initiative that he created. Despite the National title though, it is hosted on the city&#8217;s own Department of Health and Mental Hygiene site.</p>
<p>Meanwhile<a href="http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/22157-The-Salt-Wars-are-over..html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MaggiesFarm+%28Maggie%27s+Farm%29"> the salt wars are trending the other</a> way.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a report that undercuts years of public health warnings, a prestigious group convened by the government says there is no good reason based on health outcomes for many Americans to drive their sodium consumption down to the very low levels recommended in national dietary guidelines.</p>
<p>The new expert committee, commissioned by the Institute of Medicine at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said there was no rationale for anyone to aim for sodium levels below 2,300 milligrams a day. The group examined new evidence that had emerged since the last such report was issued, in 2005.</p></blockquote>
<p>And Bloomberg, the news site, rather than the crazy hamster of a politician, is reporting <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-14/lowering-salt-intake-to-improve-health-may-backfire.html">that salt reductions may even be bad</a> for you.</p>
<blockquote><p>U.S. dietary guidelines to reduce sodium intake to 1,500 milligrams a day for certain people aren’t supported by enough scientific evidence, an Institute of Medicine panel said today in a report. Studies reviewed by the panel didn’t prove health outcomes improved when salt consumption was cut to that level.</p>
<p>“Lowering sodium intake too much may actually increase a person’s risk of some health problems,” Brian Strom, the panel chairman and a public health professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, said in a statement.</p></blockquote>
<p>On Twitter, Bloomberg was too busy pushing amnesty to make a reply. And offering an Earned Income Credit of 2,000 bucks to a pilot group earning less than $27,000. And he announced that next year&#8217;s budget<a href="http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=6636CD61-C29C-7CA2-FDC8CBA139A088D0"> will have a 2.2 billion dollar gap</a>.</p>
<p>But who can take the time to think about that 2.2 billion dollar deficit when there&#8217;s salt wars to be won.</p>
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		<title>Is Your Trash Can Bisexual?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Are we going to have different coloured bins dependent on ones orientation?”]]></description>
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<p>We&#8217;re only asking you this because it&#8217;s vital that we <a href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birmingham-wheelie-bin-survey-wants-1753976">get a representational cross-section </a>of all the gender and sexual orientations <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2013/03/birmingham-wheelie-bin-survey-wants-to.html">of all the cans of trash in your are</a>a.</p>
<blockquote><p>Residents filling in a survey on household waste were stunned that, after being asked about recycling reward schemes, the sizes of bins and whether their property has space to store them, the questionnaire inquired if they were heterosexual, gay or bisexual.</p>
<p>But the council says that this is simply one of the standard monitoring questions to ensure that the responses represent a cross-section of the city’s population and that people do not have to answer it.</p>
<p>With the council having already committed to provide wheelie bins for the vast majority of households, the questions are taking views on the type of wheelie bin scheme – leaving some residents angry that they were not even asked if they wanted them in the first place.</p>
<p>Mr Dave Dixon said: “It does not ask if residents want such bins but is very interested in their sexual orientation. Are we going to have different coloured bins dependent on ones orientation?”</p></blockquote>
<p>Ah, but this is the left&#8217;s idea of representation. Representation no longer involves hearing out your views and then representing them, it involves collecting a whole bunch of persecuted groups and making sure that they are represented, though only to the issues that relate to their minority status.</p>
<p>Thus a bisexual resident is not entitled to refuse the trash cans, but he can demand that the trash cans align with his historically persecuted status by containing stickers featuring important events in bisexual history.</p>
<blockquote><p>Another called Cyril added: “What the hell has sexual orientation or religion got to do with wheelie bins? Mind your own business.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In the nanny state, the nanny is in your bedroom. You have no private business. All that you are belongs to the state.</p>
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		<title>The Fat Nanny State</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The origins of Bloomberg’s war on soda.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/big-sugary-drink-ban-39a5964ebefc9fbc2.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134204" title="big-sugary-drink-ban-39a5964ebefc9fbc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/big-sugary-drink-ban-39a5964ebefc9fbc2.gif" alt="" width="375" height="252" /></a>It&#8217;s easy to dismiss New York City Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s latest nanny state hiccup as the control-freak antics of a powerful man &#8211;but that would be missing the point. Bloomberg did not come up with the idea of banning sodas during a spa session on his private island. His implementation of it may be more overtly obnoxious, but the idea that there is a national health crisis that can only be solved by getting people to stop eating sugary foods, is ubiquitous among national experts on telling people what to do.</p>
<p>In 2007, a conference on obesity was held at George Washington University, sponsored by the Stop Obesity Alliance and the Obesity Association. The Stop Obesity Alliance may sound like a silly afterthought of a group, but its steering committee members include AHIP, the trade group for the health insurance industry; AMGA, the trade association for health care groups; SEIU, one of the largest unions in the country; and NBGH, a business health group representing major companies like Apple, FedEx, Kellogg, Unilever and Walmart.</p>
<p>It was no wonder then that nearly every Democratic and Republican candidate running for office either showed up in person, or sent a proxy to explain <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2007/09/19/4439288-richardson-addresses-obesity-society">how their administration</a> was going to fight obesity.</p>
<p>&#8220;The next president must commit to fighting America&#8217;s obesity problem and possess the experience to win the fight,&#8221; Governor Bill Richardson said, and vowed to make fighting obesity one of his top priorities.</p>
<p>You might be laughing, but don&#8217;t. The obesity epidemic buzzword has penetrated every major company, as well as every level of government and academia. That translates into a policy bulldozer with private-public partnerships that will control every aspect of your life.</p>
<p>When think-tanks convince corporations that they&#8217;re losing money because of obesity, the trade associations of the corporations invite politicians down to explain what they&#8217;re going to do about it. Health insurance companies have crunched the numbers and decided that they can save billions if the government manages to make people lose weight. Corporations that employ a lot of people and pay for their health insurance think that they can save a fortune on health insurance if employee obesity is cut. They have their own employee incentives, but mostly they want the government to do something about it.</p>
<p>To understand the genesis of Bloomberg&#8217;s lunacy, you have to go back to groups like the Stop Obesity Alliance. And it&#8217;s not the only such group. There&#8217;s the Campaign to End Obesity, whose board includes executives from major health companies and non-profits, including Pfizer, Johnson &amp; Johnson and Humana. Every time you hear another talking head going on about the dangers of obesity to America, he&#8217;s repeating talking points lifted from &#8220;F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America&#8217;s Future&#8221;, a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the country&#8217;s largest health care foundation, which doles out 400 million dollars a year in grants. Its primary focus these days is obesity.</p>
<p>&#8220;F as in Fat&#8221; includes extensive material on government legislation, everything from soda taxes to menu labeling to &#8220;complete streets programs&#8221;, which New Yorkers will recognize as the mess of bike lanes that squeeze out cars; what they don&#8217;t know is that it is used to fight obesity. HR 1780: The Safe and Complete Streets Act is a congressional bill that would turn every city into the same nightmare of snarled traffic and no parking. But even without it, grants will be doled out to cities to implement bike lanes to fight obesity.</p>
<p>Around the same time that policy advisers for presidential candidates were telling the Stop Obesity Alliance what they would do about fat people, there were warnings in the U.K. that obesity would bankrupt the NHS, and Australia&#8217;s Labor Party vowed to tackle the &#8220;national obesity crisis&#8221; as a study claimed that 95 percent of Australians were &#8220;unfit&#8221;. The hysteria had gone worldwide.</p>
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		<title>Mamas, Don&#8217;t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be &#8216;Julia&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 04:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama campaign's "composite woman" a pathetic figure who can't function without the government. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Screen-Shot-20120503-at-81935-AM.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-130972 alignleft" title="Screen-Shot-20120503-at-81935-AM" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Screen-Shot-20120503-at-81935-AM.gif" alt="" width="375" height="245" /></a>Quick, hide under the covers. The nation&#8217;s storyteller, Barack Obama, unveiled a frightening new fable on the Internet intended to scare women away from supporting fiscal conservatives in November. But as is increasingly common with Obama&#8217;s social media propaganda initiatives, &#8220;The Life of Julia&#8221; immediately flopped.</p>
<p>Why? Because 1) self-sufficient women voters aren&#8217;t as sheeple-ish as Democratic strategists make them out to be, 2) conservative activists are overtaking Obama&#8217;s zombie army online, 3) non-delusional Americans don&#8217;t want cradle-to-grave utopians turning their country into the next Greece or Spain, and 4) responsible grownups are getting sick and tired of radical Saul Alinsky-style tall tales from the progressive Pied Piper.</p>
<p>Using snazzy graphics and interactive slideshow features, BarackObama.com spins a glowing narrative of imaginary Julia&#8217;s life from age 3 to 67. But &#8220;Julia&#8221; is a pathetic figment of the progressive imagination. She simply cannot function without the lifelong intervention of federal patriarchs.</p>
<p>Instead of two parents preparing her for school, Obama credits Head Start bureaucrats with ensuring that Julia is &#8220;ready to learn and succeed&#8221; in kindergarten.</p>
<p>Instead of individual teachers, private mentors, home-school organizers or charter school leaders, Obama extols his federal Race to the Top program for implementing the high school &#8220;classes she needs to do well&#8221; in college.</p>
<p>Instead of thrift-minded families who save for their own kids&#8217; higher educations (or who opt for non-college alternatives) and who encourage those kids to work in private-sector summer jobs, Obama praises his &#8220;opportunity tax credit&#8221; and Pell Grants for putting Julia through college.</p>
<p>Instead of acknowledging how costly Obamacare mandates have caused individual-market health care insurers to drop plans altogether, Obama promotes the government-manufactured umbilical cord tethering &#8220;children&#8221; like Julia to their parents&#8217; health care plans until age 26.</p>
<p>Instead of accepting that the costs and consequences of a woman&#8217;s sexual choices should be a matter of personal responsibility, Big Daddy Obama heralds his religious liberty-crushing birth control/abortion mandate for allowing Julia to &#8220;focus on her work instead of worrying about her health.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Americans Have Become Compliant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nanny-statism is crippling the spirit and commonsense of the country. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Michelle-Obama-New-Food-Group-Icons.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125886" title="Michelle-Obama-New-Food-Group-Icons" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Michelle-Obama-New-Food-Group-Icons.gif" alt="" width="375" height="259" /></a>Last month, at a Raeford, N.C., elementary school, a teacher confiscated the lunch of a 5-year-old girl because it didn&#8217;t meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines and therefore was deemed nonnutritious. She replaced it with school cafeteria chicken nuggets. The girl&#8217;s home-prepared lunch was nutritious; it consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, potato chips, a banana and apple juice. But whether her lunch was nutritious or not is not the issue. The issue is governmental usurpation of parental authority.</p>
<p>In a number of states, pregnant teenage girls may be given abortions without the notification or the permission of parents. The issue is neither abortion nor whether a pregnant teenager should have an abortion. The issue is this: What gives the government the authority to usurp parental authority?</p>
<p>Part of the problem is that people who act as instruments of government do not pay a personal price for usurping parental authority. The reason is Americans, unlike Americans of yesteryear, have become timid and, as such, come to accept all manner of intrusive governmental acts. Can you imagine what a rugged American, such as one portrayed by John Wayne, would have done to a government tyrant who confiscated his daughter&#8217;s lunch or facilitated her abortion without his permission?</p>
<p>I believe that the anti-tobacco movement partially accounts for today&#8217;s compliant American. Tobacco zealots started out with &#8220;reasonable&#8221; demands, such as the surgeon general&#8217;s warning on cigarette packs. Then they demanded nonsmoking sections on airplanes. Emboldened by that success, they demanded no smoking at all on airplanes and then airports and then restaurants and then workplaces — all in the name of health. Seeing the compliant nature of smokers, they&#8217;ve moved to ban smoking on beaches, in parks and on sidewalks in some cities. Now they&#8217;re calling for higher health insurance premiums for smokers. Had the tobacco zealots demanded their full agenda when they started out, they would not have achieved anything.</p>
<p>Using the anti-tobacco crusade as their template and finding Americans so compliant, zealots and would-be tyrants are extending their agenda.</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Food Feudalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same classist desire for control finds a modern outlet. ]]></description>
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<p>There was a time when full tables signified prosperity and thick waistlines were considered attractive. The ability to eat one&#8217;s fill was what separated the gentry from the peasant making do with a few crusts and salted leftovers. Fat was in because it represented leisure and wealth. Thin meant you were on the road to the poorhouse or to consumption, which meant your body was being consumed, not that you were the one doing the consuming.</p>
<p>Then feudalism went the way of the dodo, agriculture was revolutionized and starvation went extinct in the West. Between the widespread availability of cheap food and social welfare programs covering everything from soup kitchens to food stamps, it became hard to starve. Not only was the availability of food no longer associated with prosperity, but even the poor had begun to eat so well that fat began to carry working class and lower class associations.</p>
<p>Fat was no longer wealth, instead conscientious fitness became a mark of prosperity. The laden table made way for micro portions and exotic but barely edible foods. Thin was in on the plate and the waistline.</p>
<p>In Third World countries where feudalism never ended and the agriculture revolution never mattered, the values often never flipped. Instead of anorexia, teenage girls suffer from being force fed to make them more marriageable. The wealthy are fat and the feasts at the top never end.</p>
<p>In the West, weight stands in for class, at a time when explicit classism has become politically incorrect. When Europeans sneer at how fat Americans are, and American coastal elites sneer at the rest of the country for being fat, it&#8217;s a class putdown that dressed up longstanding contempt in the colors of the welfare state.</p>
<p>Just because the left and its class warfare worldview, which pretends to be concerned about the plight of the underclass, dominates Western societies does not mean that it is not classist. The left is elitist and its underclass protectionism creates a new wave feudalism with a vast government funded upper and middle class dedicated to caring for the underclass, subsidizing it, caring for it and taxing it to pay for all those services.</p>
<p>The obesity concern trolling is a combination of classism and nanny statism that brings to mind the days when their ideological forebears thought that the way to deal with the poor was to sterilize those who seemed less capable than the rest to improve the breed. There is something equally Darwinian in the sneers aimed at Paula Deen. The breed being culled while the elites try to teach their less evolved cousins to survive by eating their arugula.</p>
<p>The nanny state is built on a technocratic confidence in the ability to create one size fits all solutions, overlaying that on a map of the current medical wisdom leads to the creation of single standards, which often have less to do with health than they do with the status symbols of the leisure class. 19th century popularized medicine created so many of these fads that some of them are still around today. The 20th century created even more.</p>
<p>Death though is not only inevitable, but it cannot be dodged with a one size fits all standard. Fitness guru Jim Fixx who helped kickstart the running craze died in his early fifties of a heart attack. Fixx had quit smoking and lost weight, and still died at an early age. Jackie Gleason who spent his life looking like a walking health attack, smoking and drinking, outlived him by nearly twenty years.</p>
<p>Medicine is individual and the collectivization of medicine is a technocratic solution that leads nowhere except to few doctors and ranks of unionized medical personnel nudging patients into following the script handed down to them by professors who have never actually practiced medicine a day in their life. This is the outcome of a nanny state outlook that sees individuals as dispensable, that is concerned only with group outcomes.</p>
<p>This view requires seeing all people as endowed with certain problems that require broad stroke solutions, like adding calories to menus and other rats in a maze tactics designed to modify human behavior on a national level. The targeting of fast food restaurants, public school meals and food stamps reeks of the same elitist arrogance that drives the nanny state.</p>
<p>The politicization of food by the elites of the left always comes down to class, no matter how it may be disguised in liberal colors. From exotic to locally grown, the trajectory of food politics follows the upselling of food prices  The only difference is that the dominance of the left has wrapped the added cost with no added value in their own politics. The more affordable food becomes, the more the left finds ways to add cost to food, without adding value.</p>
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		<title>Nanny State Gone Wild &#8211; by Michelle Malkin</title>
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<p>The greatest gifts you can give your children can&#8217;t be boxed and bowed. Consider the timeless gift of self-sufficiency — a stubborn thirst to leave the nest, make it on your own and live as a free-willed adult. It&#8217;s a concept that Big Nanny Democrats are sabotaging at every legislative turn.</p>
<p>Several times during the sneaky debate on the government <a style="border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/michelle-malkin.html#" target="_blank">health care</a> takeover bill this past Sunday, Democrats hailed a provision requiring insurance plans that cover dependents to provide benefits to children up to age 26. Democratic Sens. Ben Cardin and Tom Harkin both specifically championed the unfunded mandate in their floor statements.</p>
<p>This manifestation of the Nanny State is especially galling given the massive levels of generational theft the Democratic majority has presided over this past year. If they truly cared about the physical and financial well-being of young Americans, they&#8217;d stop piling on expensive regulations that simply put affordable health insurance out of their reach.</p>
<p>I propose a new symbol for the Democrats. Out: donkey. In: a giant adult pacifier.</p>
<p>I can tell you what most fiscally responsible parents are thinking when they hear the feds &#8220;taking care&#8221; of everyone else&#8217;s adult &#8220;children&#8221; by confiscating their tax dollars and forcing private companies to comply: <em> You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me. </em> Yes, Virginia, there are still some of us left who believe our children shouldn&#8217;t depend on a government-manufactured umbilical cord as they approach their third decade on earth.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, there are now an estimated 20 states that have already passed legislation requiring insurers to cover adult children. The slacker mandates cover &#8220;kids&#8221; ranging in age from 24 to 31. And it&#8217;s these government health care mandates that are driving up the cost of insurance.</p>
<p>Health policy researcher Nathan Benefield of the Commonwealth Foundation reported that in New Jersey, Nanny State peddlers claimed the adult kiddie protection law would help 100,000 uninsured young adults.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yet in two years, only 6 percent of that estimate has been realized. The primary reason — health insurance is still too expensive.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wisconsin has experienced similar results. &#8220;Whenever you insure somebody whom you didn&#8217;t insure before there&#8217;s some additional risk,&#8221; insurance expert James Mueller told the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal. Mueller points to the premium increases that have followed coverage mandates on employer-sponsored plans. &#8220;The problem with all these good ideas is there&#8217;s funding necessary,&#8221; Mueller said. In Wisconsin, not only are adult children covered, but also the children of those &#8220;children&#8221; if they live in single-parent homes.</p>
<p>As he rammed through this mandate and the mountain of other government regulations buried in Demcare, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promised on Sunday: &#8220;We are reshaping the nation. That&#8217;s what we want to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indeed, this defining dependency up phenomenon is part of the larger push for single-payer-by-proxy. The other universal health care Trojan horse signed into law this year — the expansion of SCHIP (the State Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program) — welcomed more non-&#8221;children&#8221; into the government insurance fold.</p>
<p>Both political parties have advocated federal waivers to use SCHIP funds for adults, including parents of Medicaid/SCHIP children, caretaker relatives, legal guardians and childless adults. According to the General Accounting Office, SCHIP-funded expenditures on adults nationwide &#8220;totaled about $674 million in 2006.&#8221; J.P. Wieske of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance notes that the bennies provide an incentive for parents to drop their private coverage in order to take advantage of free or discounted health insurance for their children. &#8220;It has become a program for the middle class at the expense of the poor.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is the engine that will power the Demcare architects&#8217; most naked, radical ambitions: &#8220;Health care as an inalienable right,&#8221; as Sen. Harkin put it. How? By breeding a massive permanent culture of dependency and bottomless debt in the name of the &#8220;children&#8221; from birth through quarter-life — and beyond.</p>
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