I say NO MORE WAR or OCCUPATION $$$$s, PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, they'll fund it -- just you wait!!!
"House defeats bill for more war funding"
"by Andrew Taylor, Associated Press | May 16, 2008
WASHINGTON - The Democratic-led House yesterday rejected more funds to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; many Republicans angry over the majority party's tactics sat out the vote. It did approve more money for the jobless and an expansion of GI education benefits.
In a rapid series of votes on the war-funding bill and accompanying components, Republicans withheld their votes in protest, leading to the defeat of the Iraq-funding legislation by a 149-to-141 tally. Nearly two-thirds of the House's Democrats voted against continuing to fund the war.
Democrats then forced through a nonbinding plan seeking an exit from Iraq by December of next year by a 227-to-196 vote that broke along party lines.
Thirty-two Republicans joined with Democrats on a 256-to-166 vote to sharply boost education benefits for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans under the GI Bill, despite an accompanying tax surcharge on the wealthy and small businesses, and voted to provide a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits.
The White House weighed in again yesterday with a promise to veto the bill over the rejection of war spending, the new tax surcharge, and restrictions on President Bush's ability to conduct the war in Iraq.
Sig Heil!!!
A total of 132 Republicans withheld their votes for the troops-funding bill in protest, saying the strategy by Democrats to load the war-funding measure with unrelated provisions would unnecessarily delay getting funding to service members in the field.
"We're playing political games on the backs of our troops - you know it," said the House minority leader, John Boehner, Republican of Ohio. "All this bill's going to do is delay the process for weeks and weeks and weeks while we play political games."
The GOP protest kills the war funding for now, but it will be revived next week in the Senate.
House action on the bill was the first act in a complicated legislative dance that promises to spill over into June, when the Pentagon will have to send out warnings of possible furloughs to civilian employees and contract workers.
So we will get the "booga, booga" of the troops running out of bullets as the piggish Pentagon demands more war loot!!!!
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Democrats engineered the three-vote minuet to allow antiwar legislators to vote against funding the Iraq war. Republicans said the exercise was a waste of time, given Bush's veto promise.
Oh, so it WAS a GAME of BULLSHIT POLITICAL FOOLEYS!!!!
The add-ons for the unemployed and the new college benefits under the GI Bill represented the price demanded by Democrats for approving Bush's long-stalled request for additional war funding.
Bush never demands, readers.
The new GI Bill essentially would guarantee a full scholarship at any in-state public university, along with a monthly housing stipend, for people who serve in the military for at least three years. It is aimed at replicating the benefits awarded veterans of World War II and would cost $52 billion over 10 years.
Not that soldiers should be denied this, but why aren't these programs open for ALL AMERICANS?
To pay for it and adhere to budget rules requiring that new benefit programs not add to the deficit, the Democratic plan would impose a surtax on individuals with incomes above $500,000. Couples would pay the tax on income exceeding $1 million.
"We are talking about people who are making over $1 million to pay a small sacrifice for this war where our military families are paying a huge sacrifice," said Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois.
You mean kick back some chump-change of all the PROFITEERING THEY HAVE DONE?
Senators in both parties, however, were balking at the increase, one-half of a percentage point, in tax rates. At the same time, Republicans and business groups said the plan amounts to an increase in taxes on small businesses that pay taxes at the same rates as individuals.
So it AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!! Just another BULLSHIT FOOLEY!!!
"I can't think of a worse time to implement a tax increase with a weak economy that is struggling to create and grow jobs," said Representative Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin." This is just offensive.
When it's good the rich get taxes cut, when it's bad the rich get taxes cut, while the American public continues to take a screwing.
Ron Paul has convinced me -- the LESS TAXES the BETTER!!
Bye, DemocraPs!!!!
