Living in the Bush SLIME WARP! * The Horror, The Horror!

[Hubert Flottz]

While people like Arnold, Bush, Cheney and Rumbow get the big tax breaks this year, look who is paying the price besides your children! I couldn't believe what I was hearing when I saw this WAR STORY on my TV! Then I remembered, that we now have a King instead of a President and we now live in the 'New World Odor', where the sheeple are sheeple and the wanna' be Republican slavemasters know it!



"At a daily rate of $8.10, hospitalized troops, including those wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, are being charged for their meals.

"'I was amazed. I couldn't believe it when I heard it,' said Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, who has introduced a bill to repeal what he calls an 'offensive' law...

"To make a point about their objection, Young and his wife, Beverly, recently paid the $210.60 hospital from the National Navy Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., for a Marine Corps reservist who lost part of his foot during a recent deployment in which, according to Young, a 10-year-old Iraqi dropped a grenade in the staff sergeant's Humvee."

http://www.antiwar.com/barganier/barg-col.html

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Stars and Stripes link to same story!

Congressman: Wounded troops shouldn't be billed for hospital meals


By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, September 12, 2003

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=16858&archive=true

[opihimoimoi]

3. Where is the compassion???

The Conservatives are full of shit and they keep denying it but we know its the truth.

Now that the Bushitas are in deep doo and haven't a clue as what to do,

The Head Pubs are worried he will take many down with him. House and Senate in double jep.

Slime everywhere making it impossible to walk safely. Need chains on shoes to get traction. Damn.

Come, we go feed Howdy some JWs

[Hubert Flottz]

5. The Bushit is starting to trickle down on the DRONES in :::::::::::::

Congress! Talkin' about Gore wanting to distance himself from Clinton in 2000, watch the tele-pubbies scramble in 04 to avoid the Rhhoid! BUSH/CHENEY will be the most hated team ever to hold office by 04! Worse than Adolf and Il'Ducebag for the Volk!

Come, we cash in our claw hammers and cicles the DOD needs help! I have an extra shitter seat I'll bet it's worth $67854321980978654563211222122.95 at least now! They were worth $600.99 back in Reganomics daze, got to bring several trillion under Bushco!

Charmin : Squeezed $890654325678.95 per roll
Unsqueezed $90897890661232167896.99 per roll
Vinyl MaMMies $90876543456789999999999000000.95 ea
Duct Tape $989877766656544444444333212322.49 a foot
Watch Towers $.05

[Don_G]

7. Come, We Feed Hungry Shark Some GW's

And I won't charge the shark for (my) Happy Meal either.

[DrBB]

2. Oh you socialists!

You just want the government to pay for everything
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[Hubert Flottz]

4. NO WE JUST WANT OUR FRIGGIN' BENNIES!

Can you believe these cheap BASTARDS? No Dollar Will Be Left Behind! That food money will buy 'Halliburton/DOD INC.' a new claw hammer or commode seat!

[opihimoimoi]

6. Hardly, $8.50 will get a primer on a .45 bullet

Those Mil Ind Complx guys don charge us cheap.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Yes but,

they're really GREAT primers!

[kentuck]

8. Unbelievable!

So this is "compassionate conservatism"????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Kompassion Konservatism Konquers Der Vorlt!

I guess if Wealthy Repub lobbyists can Pay $8987655544321098765432.95 a plate to get some Bush/Cheney Swill at state sponsored fund raisers, our soldiers can pay $8.10 a day!

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Check out the venom!

"From the notorious leftist rag, Stars and Stripes, the official
newspaper of the US military:"

http://ithaca.indymedia.org/media/text/00/00/06/45/

Any news source that is not a Bush/Cheney Party Organ, is a left wing rag according to the Repig propagandists! The stars and stripes is the soldiers real link to the WORLD! The Pubbies are going to be sadly surprised if the military vote is counted for real next time!

Bush may yet need to send the airborn commandos to rescue Il'Tony! Tony won't look so good upside down! We need to evaluate our top Gubmint employees before they get their raises!

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. I posted this article on another board.

This is the reply I received.

>>>>>>> That is because the Government is paying him BAS to eat off base. It is a normal procedure to charge for meals eaten on base.<<<<<

What is BAS and is this correct? Is this "usual" in the military or is this spin?

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Why then is the Repub Rep so pissed?

Speaking of Base, Bush don't know his ass from second first or third! That spin didn't sit well with the vets who got the green weenie from the Rumbo DOD! Sounds like your thread was FReeped!

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. Well, ya

the people who posted this "excuse" are RWers. I just need to know what BAS is and is it true?

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Basic Allowance Subsistence = BAS

I wonder if the CIC gets free meals?

http://www-sa.arcent.army.mil/welcome/policy_letters/PL12_BAS.pdf

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[in_cog_ni_to]

16. This is how a Veteran explains this to me.

You are given pay for food each month. You are charged for MRE, any meal eaten at a military installation and hospital meals...it's all taken out of that monthly stipend.
Here's what I found the pay to be and an explaination of BAS. I STILL think this stinks! What happens when the BSA funds run out? Does that come out of their own pocket?

The Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) is meant to offset costs for a member's meals. This allowance is based in the historic origins of the military in which the military provided room and board (or rations) as part of a member's pay. This allowance is not intended to offset the costs of meals for family members. Beginning on January 1 2002, all enlisted members get full BAS, but pay for their meals (including those provided by the government). This is the culmination of the BAS Reform transition period.

Because BAS is intended to provide meals for the servicemember, its level is linked to the price of food. Therefore, each year it is adjusted based upon the increase of the price of food as measured by the USDA food cost index. This is why the increase to BAS will not necessarily be the same percentage as that applied to the increase in the pay table, as annual pay raises are linked to the increase of private sector wages. Because members are assigned to a variety of situations, some of which either mandate or prevent obtaining meals from a government facility, there are two types of BAS, each based on a differing personal circumstance.

2003 BAS Rates

Officers
$167.20/month

Enlisted Members
When authorized to mess separately: $242.81/month
When rations-in-kind are not available: $262.50/month

edited spelling twice! and left out a word... and now I'm going back to bed! :7

[Minstrel Boy]

17. "You fight 16 wars, and what do you get?

Another day older (finger's crossed) and deeper in debt."

And when you make out the check to the company store, remember there are two L's in Halliburton.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. I couldn't agree more! n/t

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[Hubert Flottz]

19. The Repub house docks the wounded soldiers for meals while

it steals with the other hand!

Snip

Just two months after accepting a raise to an exorbitant $145,100 a year, House representatives are working behind the scenes to enact a "per diem" expense allowance of $165 per working day. With about 151 legislative days per year, the raise would amount to a $25,000-a-year, tax-exempt pay hike.

http://toogoodreports.com/tr/032201-lp1.htm

When do you reckon was the last time Tom Delay put his life on the line in combat?

[opihimoimoi]

20. It is a shame the Pubs plot and connive how to get theirs but

when it comes to fairness, our wounded and vets gets shortchanged.

Something is dreadfully wrong with our gubbermint. Too many Pubs making sure their side gets more than fair share. They plot the rules and laws favoring the wealthy and the Pub side. They lie cheat steal like its OK and yet call themselves Conservatives. They twist the facts and denigrate the Liberals like Satanesque. They do all they can for the control its pathetic.

The control they desire fuels the robbery and upsets the balance of fairness.

They are full of it and now the World look at Americans as such, The Pubs give America a very bad name.

Come, its time for a drink, think.