I agree with you on spending less on regulating our lives. So I guess my question is why in the world veteran's education benefits would be a priority when it comes to cutting spending? There are so many much more worthy targets!
Educational benefits are commonly provided in the private sector, so I don't see much issue with providing them to soldiers. Granted, the average employee isn't attending full-time unless he's in a retraining program, but isn't that essentially what the GI Bill is when you get down to it? For whatever reason the soldier is no longer in the army, and he/she decides to go to school for a while before getting another job. It's an exit package and a perfectly reasonable benefit. If people are joining so they can go to school afterwards, well, sometimes people keep their jobs for the health or educational benefits, and more power to them if it works out for them. I know I have co-workers who are staying because my employer reimburses them for the cost of taking certification tests ::shrug:: Even if they eventually leave we're still a smarter group of people by the much more knowledge for the time that they are here. There are so many better reasons for outrage than spending on the GI Bill :) Why are we worried about whether people who have served their country have too many career opportunities? It almost smacks of the gay marriage foofara. I hope the GOP isn't hoping to wag the dog with this or I may actually have to go volunteer for some opposing campaign, and I have too much to do already ;) > Spending by our current government (that is the Congress, since they > hold the power of the purse in our country) is completely out of > control. I want to see more spending go for Veteran's benefits but > overall I want to see our Government spending less on everything! I > also want to see them spending less on regulating our lives. I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260717 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
