Question: I've been thinking about this for awhile but isn't it a little cheap of President Bush to deny ANY soldier educational benefits by opposing the more genersous GI Bill when he sent us to war to, in Scott McClellen's words, make him a "great President?" I mean thousands of kids have paid the ultimate price for Bush's narcissism. How dare Bush, McSham and their supporters dare say they support the troops! I'm sick of Republicans thinking they support the troops by supporting the man who sent them to Iraq in order to "out do" his daddy and impress his mommy! Same goes for those supporting John McShame simply because he is an extension of Bush.
Bush "out did" his daddy alright! He cost us the lives of thousands of young brave American troops and spent ONE TRILLION dollars to enrich his friends and family.
One other point about the GI Bill. The very least Bush could do is make up for the huge disparity between soldier pay and the pay for Blackwater soldiers. How would you like to be doing the same job, or even more dangerous job, as Blackwater and other civilian contractors but get paid a fraction and then have Bush and McShame try to reduce veterans benefits?
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
Where do you think many soldiers are going when there term is up? The green machine is just an internship for most of these guys!
devis1
· 1 year ago
Gordon Gekko lives. When they were called before congress, I thought there were be some followup on the takedown of Bear Stearns but nothin'.
jr
· 1 year ago
tinkle down economics in action
Forty2
· 1 year ago
there's still the whole issue of unconstitiutional shenanigans here. Congress must authorize the Fed to rescue a bank, and no authorization was obtained. This smells of a back-room deal involving Bush, Bernanke, Paulson, and Jamie Dimon who happens to sit on the NY Fed board.
but it sort of pales to the problem of all the other investment and commercial banks dumping crap paper on the Fed in exchange for Treasuries. where do you think all that hot commodity (mostly oil) money went? it's a domestic carry trade.
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
All great things shall come to pass.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Rumors are that JP Morgan, Chase, Dean witter, whatever; made over 2 billion bucks on the deal. Enough to feed the starving Christians and Animists in Darfur for 4 years...
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Bush "out did" his daddy alright! He cost us the lives of thousands of young brave American troops and spent ONE TRILLION dollars to enrich his friends and family.
One other point about the GI Bill. The very least Bush could do is make up for the huge disparity between soldier pay and the pay for Blackwater soldiers. How would you like to be doing the same job, or even more dangerous job, as Blackwater and other civilian contractors but get paid a fraction and then have Bush and McShame try to reduce veterans benefits?
but it sort of pales to the problem of all the other investment and commercial banks dumping crap paper on the Fed in exchange for Treasuries. where do you think all that hot commodity (mostly oil) money went? it's a domestic carry trade.