9/22/2005
Busy this weekend?
American Soldier says,
Head on over to RedState.org and read about what they are planning to do this weekend. I will be there in spirit.
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oh wow, that is AWESOME!!!! Dang…too bad DC is about 12-14 hours from Atlanta.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush and Republicans in Congress have refused to consider rolling back the $336 billion in new tax cuts that the richest 1 percent are slated to get over the next five years. They say we need to pay for reconstruction not by asking the wealthiest to sacrifice just a little bit, but by massive cuts to spending. And now we see what that means: The Navy Times today reports that those cuts “include trimming military quality-of-life programs, including health care” . . . This, while troops are fighting and dying for our country in Iraq.
. . . The specifics are ugly. They are, for instance, asking troops to “accept reduced health care benefits for their families.” Additionally, “the stateside system of elementary and secondary schools for military family members could be closed.” In the past, this idea “has faced strong opposition from parents of children attending the schools because public schools [in and around bases] are seen as offering lower-quality education.”
None of this, I suppose, is all that surprising. In the past, we’ve seen tax cuts put before making sure troops have adequate body armor heading into war - a tax/budget decision that very likely increased U.S. casualties. We’ve also seen Republicans vote down efforts to reduce tax cuts for the very wealthy in order to restore cuts to military family housing. And we’ve seen tax cuts come as the White House has refused to adequately fund a variety of other programs for troops. The truth is, the GOP has in moments of candor admitted that they care about cutting taxes for the wealthy far more than they care about the troops.
As you may recall, it was Tom DeLay who said before the Iraq invasion “Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.” Apparently, nothing is more important in the face of a war AND massive destruction to the homefront than tax cuts either.
Sad
Great Blog…interesting reading!
This is a a good time to consider what we have accomplished and might still accomplish in Iraq. There are conflicting reports about schools and other facilities being rebuilt, but reports today from Marine officers in Falluja are that despite some progress rebuilding there the insurgents are reentering. The officer quoted said that the marines are unable to stop them. There is no question that bombing attacks are increasing and the fatilities among US soldiers and Iraqui civilians are increasing. The President cannot tell us what success or victory there will be. What reasons are there to believe that the conflict there will be worse if we bring our soldiers home. These are questions for all of us to seriously consider.
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Great AS. I’m so glad that they are going to be in Washington defending our troops and our country and president!!
Awesome, about time, only wish I could be there. Lets pray thousands turn out. Great site.
Well, I can’t be in DC this weekend, but I can be at the Move America Forward rally in Cincinnati tonight, before they head to the rally in DC this weekend!
YAY! GO TROOPS!
I am a former Past Commander of an American Legion Post and currently an officer in the Post and a US army veteran .
Just returned from Iraq and have a blog site: http://thesirduck.blogspot.com on my travels in Iraq. I worked with the Iraqis in building military camps in Iraq. Came home on a medical R&R and looking to go back. I see the bad guys are here too. You generaly can tell but not always who the Iraqi bag guys are but here it is Americans, don’t they know the bad guys in Iraq are using them, protesters, as recuiters to kill our soldiers over there. Enough said. By the way, the Iraqis that worked for me were always telling me how thankfull there are for us getting rid of Saddam H even through some of them where his military.
Keep up the good and your powder dry.
Out here
Sir Duck
A S, very glad you are home again.
Hay MAX, what mushroom you been hideing under? Didn’t you hear the news that the treasurey collected more taxes than last year with the tax cuts by Bush? Geeze, can’t beleive that some bone heads out there still haven’t or is it can’t do the math on the tax cuts……..The poor don’t pay any taxes, never did, never will,,,,,but they will get our tax money from the 1% who do pay taxes.