In the same column which fawns all over Speaker Nancy Pelosi for holding a meaningless, do-nothing “summit on children,” the October issue of Parents magazine slams Sens. McConnell and Lott for opposing the SCHIP expansion bill. Which resulted in the following…
Parents Magazine
Customer Service
P.O. Box 37245
Boone, IA 50037-0245To Whom It May Concern:
Please cancel my subscription.
On page 29 of your October 2007 issue, you criticize Senator Trent Lott and Senator Mitch McConnell for opposing an expansion of the SCHIP program, maintaining the bill “would provide health coverage to more kids whose parents can’t afford private insurance.”
This is a terrible distortion of the issue.
The objections to SCHIP expansion have to do with the fact that the bill would extend taxpayer subsidized health insurance, not just to kids, but adults as well. In addition, the bill would have extended the benefit to adults making as much as $80,000 a year. That’s hardly a “poverty” wage.
If your magazine can be so wrong about such an important piece of federal legislation dealing with kids, then I certainly can’t trust anything you publish about other child-rearing topics. I might suggest you do a little more homework before wading into political waters in the future.
Disappointedly yours,
Charles Muth
President
Citizen Outreach
Posted on September 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
AMEN! AMEN
You need to direct your comments to Parents editorial offices as listed in their masthead, usually following their table of contents. Here is an address from their website.
Parents Magazine
375 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-499-2000
The Iowa address is a subscription service for many different magazines. The poor flunky who sees your letter might cancel your subscription, but that will be the end of it.
Good luck. The publishing business is full of leftists.
I appreciate Mr. Davisson’s comment. Too often, corporations that provide products and services hide behind fronts to protect themselves from the blowback of poor customer service. They’ve even taken to publishing websites that have no physical street address information. You’re stuck with the link or, in the case of Qwest telecommunications, an 800 number that gets you a guy named “Earl” in India — “Oh Tank you beddy much!”
Chuck, Other people who get similar treatment from me are those three Gun Control Freaks who claim to be Republicans. I’ve been getting mail from people named Mitt, John, and Rudy lately who share a common deficit: not knowing what the Second Amendment means. In John’s case, it extends to the First Amendment. That last one was recently tempored but not eliminated in Count.
SCHIP and Medicare Part D are both horrible examples of an expansionist government run amok.
Good job!
*shakes head*