So I sent President Bush an e-mail saying why spend 200 Billion on Iraq and veto child heath care?

Question

Was it naive of me to think hope or expect that I would get a reply other than:
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.

We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.

Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot
respond to every message.

Thank you again for taking the time to write.

Is it absurd to expect a response?

Answer 1

I would not hold my breath .They are scanned by many people. You never know. he may just answer it. It maybe rewritten but he may sign it. i hope he does as you are a good citizen.

Answer 2

I second all that suthrnlyts said.
Only adding that not only is it trying to get funding from an ever decreasing tax revenue source. This "expanded" child health care package also included providing funding for the millions of anchor babies and illegals here now.
So whether or not it "could" have come from the same monies being used for Iraq, that still does not make it right.

Bush has been wrong on many issues but at least he was smart enough to recognize this.

Why don't some of you people quit taking things at face value and really look at what these so called "feel good" policies really mean?

Answer 3

And yet Wal Mart can sell many drugs at $4 per fill. There's too much screwy in the power structure of our nation. Time to start over, from scratch - a convenient time to declare international bankruptcy and bail on China - a new constitutional amendment to keep ALL property and property rights in citizen's hands, and make it illegal to sell our land to other nations - even allies, and repeal of all taxes and tax breaks except a consumption tax, which won't discriminate against citizens purchasing goods and services in their own country by making immigrants (both legal and illegal) pay the same as we do. If things don't change this presidential election, there may not be another true choice - the one party system is beginning to see that people are against it, and they have a LOT of power.

Answer 4

It is absurd to expect a response from any White House correspondance due to the high volume.

Your question regarding policy decisions while we will discuss it here in yahoo world we should have no expectation that the actual policy makers will ever read any correspondance.

The only thing we can do is to vote for the person who will represent us as President or as Senator, Congressman, collectively we do that, and then we have to expect to be given these kinds of form letter responses to our correspondances.

I had a job working for a Representative in Michigan and it was my job to reply to his emails, and this was back in 1998 when the internet was still relatively young and not used as it is now in our daily lives.

Essentially I was told to not commit to anything but only to thank people for their emails.

That was all.

Everyone who is an elected official will hire a staff to essentially sit there and cut and paste the form response saying thanks but there won't be any real response coming.

Answer 5

It's a canned response, of course. But if you want to get closer to the truth, it might be worth your while to read this:

Rep. Jack Kingston, a Republican from Georgia, points out the fiscal irresponsibility of trying to fund a program entirely on a taxation of a declining revenue source. Kingston says that adequate funds needed for this program would require 22 million new smokers.

The truth here is that the Democrats know full well that they aren't going to be able to finance their massive expansion of this health insurance program with money from smokers. They're conning us, and we should be bright enough to understand that. (But then there's that government school thing).

Here's what is going to happen. Revenues from cigarette taxes will go down as the spending on the expanded S-CHIP program goes up. Democrats will then step forward and say that we just must have another tax increase – but only, of course, on the rich – to pay for the program. After all, nobody wants these children to lose their health care.

The expanded program will cause perhaps millions of households to drop their private health care plans in favor of S-CHIP. Then, when they're on the hook for the government program, the Democrats bring on the tax increases.

Come on, folks. We need to wake up here.

Answer 6

Yes. It's absurd to expect that the White House will respond to every email on every topic it receives.

The President does support an expansion of child health care, just not as large an expansion as proposed by the Democrats.

Good luck,

Dana

Answer 7

It would be nice to get something other than the boiler plate email. I get the same email when I wrote about Ramos and Compean or when I wrote about Iraq. I wonder if they just go into a large trash folder on the server and just get purged at the end of the day.

Answer 8

You may get a response - from homeland security. It seems that whoever disagrees with our president becomes a "security risk". So much for freedom of speech.

Doesn't anyone else think it odd that American citizens must have passports to travel to Mexico Canada & the Carribean but our prez wants amnisty for 12 million illegals? I mean if I were a country that wanted to inflict damage on the US what better way to do this than go to Mexico, sneak accross the boarder then claim amnisty. After a year or so continue with your "I hate the US campaign."

I find it disturbing that OUR freedoms are eroding day by day and no one either seems to notice or care.

Answer 9

It is absurd to expect a response and if you complain to them too much, they stop replying altogether.

You know why he's going to veto the child health care bill----it's because kids don't have any sweet crude oil inside of them!

Hmmmm---I wonder if any of those poor kids helped by those funds are Christians? Dubya is very proud of how religious he is, he says he loves Jesus----I wonder if God would want him to help take care of any of the kids Jesus loves?

Nah----I am certain Jesus just wants the President to kick those poor kids out into the cold and let them get sicker because their families can't afford health care.

Another moral dilemma solved by Neocon guidelines!

Answer 10

If you want Bush to spend that amount of money on child health care then first you will have to sell him and all his buddies all of the hospitals in the US that deal with kids - then he'll be giving it to himself which is ok.

Where do you think the 200 billion went? It really isn't nice to see decent people robbed by their own leaders when will you all wake up?

Answer 11

Yes it is.

Also, seeing as he has already repeated listed his reasons for the Iraq War and why he will veto this spending bill, it seems you are incapable of accepting his reasons.