Repealing DADT Is A Lot More Important To Me Than Some Greedy Pigs Getting Their Filthy Lucre

[DemocratSinceBirth]

If it is repealed I will consider the 111th Congress an unqualified success...

[Atman]

1. You have skewed priorities.

I understand 100% the need for DADT to be repealed...but if it is not, the failure to repeal won't cost the nation billions/trillions of dollars for generations to come. Failure to repeal DADT won't put Americans to work. Repealing DADT won't help pull the country back from the edge of a catastrophic financial meltdown. Taxing billionaires will.

I respect your passion, but it is, quite frankly, selfish. We can continue to fight for DADT next session. Once we give the $700,000,000,000 to the billionaires, it's gone.

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Failure To Repeal It Will Just Result In Delaying A Fellow Group Of Citizens Their Civil Rights

And it might be a decade before we have the votes again.

[Atman]

7. Self delete

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[Speck Tater]

9. Where as failure to provide adequate health care for poor infants will result in .....

how many deaths?

So DATD is REALLY more important than that?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. I Didn't Know Repealing DADT Came At The Cost Of Neglecting Sick Infants

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[Speck Tater]

15. I doesn't. We can, and should have BOTH. But which is more critical? DADT? I don't think so. nt

[Kaleva]

5. 130 billion is for tax cuts for the wealthy.

The rest is made up of tax cuts for the middle class, the reduction in payroll taxes and the like. The vast bulk of the tax cuts benefit the middle class.

[Union Scribe]

6. Because 130 billion is a more reasonable ransom?

[Atman]

8. It MIGHT be. The $130 billion is wishful delusion...the tax cuts will be extended indefinitely.

Do you think the very same GOP Congress which think WON'T take up DADT for at least a decade WILL allow their precious tax cuts to expire? Are you daft? Already today the GOP leaders are at their podiums saying that anything other than permanent tax breaks for them is the only priority, everyone else can suck ass. And you really believe they'll stop their tax cuts at two years/$140 bil? As a poster stated yesterday, might as well consider the tax cuts to be $7 TRILLION dollars, because they aren't going away in two years if we let this pass. Period.

DADT, however, can be brought to the floor again.

[Kaleva]

10. The middle class cuts will cost 3.3 trillion over the next ten years if made permanent....

The tax cuts for the wealthy will cost 700 billion over the next ten years if made permanent.

[William769]

12. How many next sessions are we going to have to wait?

BTW It will put Americans to work (Gay Americans).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. They Are Already Working In The Military Right Now

Trust me.

[William769]

14. Closets don't count!

:hi:

[Union Scribe]

2. If that's really the trade-off, okay

But I don't think we can afford to buy every step forward with a trillion dollar give-away to the rich.

[Uzybone]

3. lets kick that DADT can down the road till 2012

fight fight fight!!!!!!11!!!1!!

[Whisp]

16. and to me, the many unemployed getting money to feed their kids

is more important than either.

each to their own