"House Backs Block on Military Housing"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Making a tough choice with U.S. troops still in Iraq, the House on Wednesday sided with the chamber's Republican leaders to embrace spending restraint over an expansion of a program to improve family military housing.

In a near party-line 212-211 procedural vote, lawmakers signaled their willingness to remove a $500 million expansion of the housing program from a $10 billion military construction bill for next year.

The housing expansion provision - supported by President Bush, most Democrats and many Republicans - was expected to be formally deleted from the legislation on Thursday.

Hours after the first vote, though, lawmakers underscored the election-year sensitivity of the issue by voting 423-0 for a separate bill doing exactly the opposite - expanding the same family military housing program by $500 million.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040721/D83VFMP81.html

[fdr_hst_fan]

1. Yeah, let's support our valiant troops-

but NOT IN THE USA!:

:wtf: :puke:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yep, our military families have to live in substandard housing

because the Pentagon's half a trillion dollars is earmarked for more important things, like Star Wars and building a moon base so we can go to Mars.

[Jivenwail]

3. Whaaaa????

I swear these morons (and I use that term extremely carefully) never cease to amaze.

In all the years that my husband and I "lived" (and I can assure you that word doesn't really apply) in military (Navy) housing, nothing would've meant more than to improve the mostly horrid conditions of what they called "housing". Not to mention the lack of enough housing, thereof, that put most of us on waiting lists for up to 2 years at a time. If you weren't an officer with a ton of kids, forget about getting decent housing in a decent amount of time. Most of it sucks and we only lived in base housing because we had to...times were tough, money short. And I'm sure I am not alone and I'm sure that there are thousands still in that same situation today, and will be in the future.

Most of the "chickenhawks" have no idea of what military housing is like. Or what it is like to have to wait to get it. Or what is like to live in them. They should all be forced to live in military/base housing for 6 months or longer and then make these kinds of decisions that affect the lives of the men & women who serve this country and the families that support them. This is a disgrace.

Shame on everyone of these representatives - shame on them.