I'd love to see the G.I. bill scaled for time in service. Lets do what the officers do, for every two years in service you get one year of college.
My complaint is that even under the new plans most soldiers simply won't be able to afford college without loans or a full time job, and the military knows it, and plans on only a small percentage of veterans ever being able to use the benefits. Robert Munn wrote: > 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:260797 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
