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Showing posts with label military families. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military families. Show all posts

Saturday, February 09, 2008

we have the money to send them to go get killed

(FOR NO REASON I MIGHT ADD) but we don't have the money to care for them or educate them? we have a king and a court who are LYING F**KWADS and no one calls them on it? (i'm surprised the wapo called 'em on it to begin with. even for all of you warmongers out there. do YOU think this is right?

No Funds in Bush Budget For Troop-Benefits Plan
He Made Proposal in January Speech


By Michael Abramowitz and Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writers
President Bush drew great applause during his State of the Union address last month when he called on Congress to allow U.S. troops to transfer their unused education benefits to family members. "Our military families serve our nation, they inspire our nation, and tonight our nation honors them," he said.
A week later, however, when Bush submitted his $3.1 trillion federal budget to Congress, he included no funding for such an initiative, which government analysts calculate could cost $1 billion to $2 billion annually.
Bush's proposal was added to the speech late in the process, administration officials said, after the president decided that he wanted to announce a program that would favor military families. That left little time to vet the idea, develop formal cost estimates or gauge how many people might take advantage of such a program. Some administration officials said the proposal surprised them, and they voiced concerns about how to fund it. ......

Saturday, December 08, 2007

my only question is

WHO are the FOUR FAMILIES who DO approve of him?
Bush loses ground with military families
By Faye Fiore, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
......................Nearly six out of every 10 military families disapprove of Bush's job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only slightly better than the general population does.And among those families with soldiers, sailors and Marines who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, 60% say that the war in Iraq was not worth the cost, the same result as all adults surveyed."I don't see gains for the people of Iraq . . . and, oh, my God, so many wonderful young people, and these are the ones who felt they were really doing something, that's why they signed up," said poll respondent Sue Datta, 61, whose youngest son, an Army staff sergeant, was seriously wounded in Iraq last year and is scheduled to redeploy in 2009. "I pray to God that they did not die in vain, but I don't think our president is even sensitive at all to what it's like to have a child serving over there."................