McCain has an alternative bill that supports more benefits for longer service, and also allows those benefits to be transferred to a service person's family members, which the current bill does not do. Rewarding people for longer service (e.g. longer than a single eight year commitment) is standard practice in government and private industry.
Democrats prefer socialism, though, which is why they want to give everyone the same reward regardless of length of service. Furthermore, it is an easy way to sap the strength of the military, and yet another attempted end-run around the President to end the war, which is what all this noise is about. It's almost embarrassing that the Democrats don't have the cojones to just cut off funding for the war. They have to continue to pretend they support the troops while doing everything they can to cut them off at the knees. And spare me the argument that this bill empowers rather than hampers them. The bill is a deliberate attempt to weaken the military by sapping it of personnel, and that hurts men and women in uniform more than anyone else. On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Gruss wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > why is it with vets that we have to draw the line? > > I guess this just reminds me of the baffling nature of "patriotism" > when it comes to the military. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:260794 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
