ooo please explain how educational benefits would cut someone off at the knees??
;) On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:260799 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
