3.5% raise too much for Bush

[unhappycamper]

3.5% raise too much for Bush
By Tom Philpott
Posted on: Monday, July 16, 2007


Talk about lousy timing. With President Bush's popularity scraping bottom in opinion polls, with U.S. casualties rising in Iraq in a force surge that has stretched tours to 15 months, the Bush administration has said it "strongly opposes" key military pay and benefit gains tossed into the fiscal 2008 defense bill.

Initiatives the administration opposes include:

# A military pay raise for next January of 3.5 percent versus 3 percent endorsed by the White House.

# Lowering the age-60 start of reserve retirement annuities for reserve component members by the length of their future mobilizations.

# Expanding eligibility for Combat-Related Special Compensation to service members forced by combat disabilities to retire short of 20 years.

# Directing pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide the Department of Defense with same-price discounts for Tricare retail pharmacy network that are provided on medicines dispensed from base pharmacies.


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[babylonsister]

1. Support the troops-NOT! nt

[SpiralHawk]

3. Chickenhawk republicons HATE America's troops and veterans

And they prove it all the time.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Wow, and to think he supports the troops

All four of those items are rational, sane, fair and easily accepted proposals. Just another reason why bush (and more importantly, those that support) him suck incredibly well. They do not support our troops, they are not patriots and I have an intense feeling that they do not deserve their citizenship.

[jojo54]

4. This administration is deplorable.

Why can't we throw rotten tomatoes as they're leaving D.C. in Jan. '09, like they used to do to lousy acts in the minstrel shows?

[bdamomma]

7. I think that the throwing tomatoes should be sooner.

[Bitwit1234]

5. It has come to me

that this administration is opposing any raise of any amount of money to the middle and lower class. They want to keep the American people poor, because they will have the upper hand in elections etc. Notice any time there is any suggestion that people other than the RULING class can make money is turned down.

[bdamomma]

6. they don't support anyone just themselves.

and the list just gets longer.