Will the the people that Preznit Completely Corrupt calls his base be asked to sacrifice their tax-cuts to pay for Mess O'Potamia? No.
Will the people that Preznit Sippin' Whiskey regales with tales of strolling with First Responders to have photo-ops with be considered as candidates for sacrifice in "Operation Offset"? No.
Then who will be asked to (once again) shoulder the burden of paying to continue the feeding frenzy at the tax-cut trough?
A group of House Republicans have proposed a plan to offset the costs of relief and rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina that includes trimming military quality-of-life programs, including health care.
Possible sources of funding cuts to free up money for Katrina relief include reduced health benefits, consolidation of the three military exchange systems and the closure of the military’s stateside school system.
Yup. The same people who he and all the fucking Chickenhawk republicans so revere in their public pronouncements and chest-beating. The American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines and their families who are already literally giving everything 24/7/365.
It's against the law for many of them to say anything about this in anyway but to vote "with their feet" when (and if) they can. But how unconscionable is it for the republicans to put these folks in Harm's Way and then blithely assert that they need to sacrifice further for other Americans, when the richest 1%, who will get over 300 Billion in tax-relief over the next five years are being asked to sacrifice nothing?
One of the juiciest Canards of the Right is that we should not defend our opposition to American Soldiers being tossed into the meat grinder in Mess O'Potamia because they are all "volunteers". Well, no one joined the Army and "volunteered" to leave their family destitute, no one "voluneteered" to be treated as a Second-Class Citizen as the 1600 Crew does for the Guard and Reservists in terms of benefits, even though they serve on the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan with their regular Army counterparts.
No one but the fiscally insane, rubber-stamping one-party Congress would have ceded all their responsibilities to the 1600 Crew under the guise of this "War" of choice and then had the balls to ask for more sacrifice in the one place it shouldn't ever be made, in the paycheck of our servicemen and women who are not "volunteering" to be part of the Great Social Experiment in Supply-Side Economics and Government Accounting Trickery.
Just posted about this myself. The expected savings on the mil health care roll back is expected to be $2.4 B over ten years. Compared to the $300b the super-rich will gain over five years.
Yeah. Support the troops.
I thank my maker I don't have to look an enlisted wife in the eye and explain this to her.
Permission to rant, sir.
Is there no limit to how low this administration will stoop?
They use our military to acquire oil fields for their own personal profit. With over 1,900 brave young men and women killed, thousands wounded and more than a million who will never be the same, there is still no end in sight. Halliburton isn't fat enough for the teat to be taken away.
Even Hitler and Stalin wouldn't have treated the mother of a fallen soldier the way Bush did.
They think of the military as a big K-mart. Where all the workers are minimum wage, no benefits and no chance for advancement.
Thank you. Now I must pack my gear for a trip to DC this weekend.
posted by: Gordon on 09.22.05 at 02:31 PM [permalink]
Hey, perfect time for that inheritance tax cut, wouldn't you say?
I'm retired military and boy, am I pissed!!!!! When will the kids that make up our military finally catch on that the only way these guys are promilitary is in procurement from profiteers?
