Senator Tom Dempster, one of the secular MAINstream Republicans from Sioux Falls first tried to use the "kind the can down the isle" approach to have the State take control of "pre-kindergarten". Since that term is not defined in State statute, then the control would have included those as young as zero, just like the Feds Head Start, the control starts at the cradle. In fact, there are 116 "preborns" that were covered by Head Start according to testimony this year in the House Education committee. So there goes the pro-abortion radical’s life begins at birth argument.
Now the Argus Leader has a Dempster promoting government control to grave by again using children as political pawns:
Almost 18,000 South Dakota children - or 8.8 percent - don't have health insurance, according to the study released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That figure was calculated by averaging census data from 2003 to 2005.
That puts the state below the national average of 11.5 percent, the study found.
That's still too many uninsured children, said Sen. Tom Dempster, R-Sioux Falls, who's working on the Zaniya Project, a plan to help uninsured and underinsured South Dakotans get health insurance.
"We're not good, but at least we're better than other states," Dempster said.
A task force established by the 2007 Legislature is scheduled this summer to meet and discuss how the Zaniya plan will work. The first step is bringing health care providers, insurers and residents together to discuss the state's needs, Dempster said."It's going to take a whole bunch of little steps in a whole bunch of little places," he said.
Note the "whole bunch of little steps in a whole bunch of little places", just like his kick the can down the isle approach. The idea is to implement this cradle to grave Nanny State a little at a time so most won’t notice the communist take over. Not very Republican.
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