Bush opposes pay raise for troops, wants tax cuts for rich »
Posted By y_soitenly 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsPresident Bush has declared that the 3.5% pay raise for the troops proposed by Democrats as being "unnecessary" but requested the legislature to make the President's tax cuts for the rich permanent, actions that have earned the administration the wrath of unions.
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ETproductions1 year, 4 months ago
The wrath of unions? If anybody aside from the wealthiest 1/2 of 1% of Americans thinks this is a good idea, I have to wonder what motivates them.
In the past 12 years, the wealthiest 1/2 of 1% of Americans have doubled their holdings of the nations total wealth. Must they have ALL wealth before these elites can rest secure in their new banana republic called America?
Think you Mr. Cheney. GW Bush doesn't have the mental acumen to even understand what's going on here. He has to spend all his time learning to recite the Republican talking points they give him. And even with all that practice, he still has trouble getting out one coherent sentence after the next.
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tiredofnonsense1 year, 4 months ago
"The wrath of unions? If anybody aside from the wealthiest 1/2 of 1% of Americans thinks this is a good idea, I have to wonder what motivates them."
Being in the catagorey that lives below the poverty level, Im in favor of it because of common sense, over the last 25 years the numbers of small business that file as Individual has gone up 35%. Those small buisnisses create jobs for people like myself, also the rich individuals invest their money in corporations that create jobs. Excess taxation serves noone except the Democrats that want to redistribute more money, Their latest budget indicates they are counting on the expiration of the tax cuts, that way they can say they didnt raise taxes.
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Sabretooth1 year, 4 months ago
"Excess taxation serves noone except the Democrats that want to redistribute more money"
Would that be like the Repubs using the war on terror they are currently fueling to redistribute money from the poor and middle class to the rich?
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mesodude1 year, 4 months ago
Please explain why someone who claims to be living below the poverty level supports the party that believes it somehow makes sense to redistribute your tax dollars in the form of BILLIONS in subsidies to Big Oil (because, as we all know, industries which are already raking in record BILLIONS in profits need all the government handouts they can get). And what do you think it says about you that you're apparently willing to sit back and wait for crumbs like a total chump while your beloved President redistributes wealth UPWARDS? I really don't get people like you at all...
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NewsWarrior1 year, 4 months ago
As a reporter, I take some exception to this comment. Hehe
There ARE reporters with a conscience, that care more about informing the public about important issues than their own selfish concerns.... not much of that on TV (sadly), but especially in print and blog journalism these days...there's a pretty good amount (that I've found).
It seems to me that the flap over a half-percentage point pay raise for military personnel boils down to a partisan tiff between staunch Dems and the White House. But, the Bush administration has shown itself to be inept in just about every facet of running the Pentagon (not to mention much of the the country's business)... so, why should the management of the military be any different?
On this day of remembrance for those brave veterans, and their families, who sacrificed so very much for us to be "free," let us all make an effort to make sure that what they died for is the BEST our country can be (and that does not mean world dominance).
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LeftTurn1 year, 4 months ago
I agree with you Warrior, but we need a better forum so that people can read honest reporting with facts, documents, and references to corroborate events as they are reported on. not just references to the same story, but corroborating referenced events. I think this is truly the key to helping Americans know what is right and is wrong, what is truly news and what is misinformation.
I believe true facts always have a connecting pre-fact if you will of what the immediate fact was a result of. Likewise, you will have a pro-fact resulting from the fact in question, and since there is only one right answer, sometimes it's not to hard for some to connect the dots, when certain events could only result from a certain pre-event.
However, people will take one article or news source and latch on as if that is truth, with not much regard for their own investigation of true facts... the president of Iran's speech for one instance and how he wanted Israel wiped out which was not true...
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mesodude1 year, 4 months ago
What depresses me is that Right wing sheep won't give this sort of crap the GOP dishes out to them a second thought (if they give it a *first* thought) come election time. If I or someone I knew was serving in the military, I would be absolutely *disgusted* to know what a low opinion Bush and the Republican party have of those putting their lives on the line for our country. War profiteering gets a wink and a nod from the GOP but when it comes time to compensate those they claim to support, they suddenly come up short. Despicable...
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engineer1 year, 4 months ago
How immoral can this administration be. He only cares about the wealthy. Then you have 'people' like SlapALib who support this. They make me sick.
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aniokly1 year, 4 months ago
This administration has increased wages, insuramce, bonuses, more then any President since Preasident Reagan. The NYT found 12 people in the military out of 150,000 to complain about their mission. Big Whup. Democrats will use any reason to distort what this President has ever done, and he turns the other cheek. These same complainers had nothing to say about no raises from the Hillbilly *hore Hopper in 8 years. Nothing to say about going to Bosnia without Congressional, or U N support, but now you can't shut them up. They think History did not start until 2001
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bubba21 year, 4 months ago
You are, again, SO wrong.
Wages - NO wages have been increased. There are 6 million MORE people living below the poverty line since W took office.
WHO is getting bonuses other than oil company execs? Do you think that the 'average' worker in this country even gets ANY sort of bonus from their employers? I can answer that for you - NO!
There is NO "distortion" by anyone EXCEPT by Bush, FOX News, and the white house.
$5.15 per hour (current minimum wage) is the equivalent of $4.23 in 1997, the year the minimum wage was raised from $4.25 an hour. NOTE that the minimum wage was last raised while CLINTON was in office. So much for your rant about him,
Net job creation (difference between jobs added to the economy and jobs lost) during the Clinton administration: 22.7 million.
Net job creation since Bush took office in 2001: about 4 million.
Number of manufacturing jobs lost since 2001: over 3 million.
As usual, you have NO clue about what you say ...
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tehranchik1 year, 4 months ago
I see some distortion here and it's not from the democrats.
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spkguy1 year, 4 months ago
Troop Pay Raise That Bush May Veto Amounts To $6/Month To Average Soldier In Iraq
As ThinkProgress noted yesterday, President Bush has threatened to veto a House defense bill over a provision that raises the pay for U.S. soldiers by 3.5 percent, instead of the 3 percent preferred by the White House.
Last night on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Todd Bowers â;; an Iraq war veteran and director of government affairs for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America â;; broke down the White House's position in dollar terms. Bowers explained that the difference between a 3 percent and 3.5 percent pay raise is the difference of six bucks a month for the average servicemember. Bowers said:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/18/bush-oppose...
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 4 months ago
$1300.00 per month: family at home
$350.00 rent
$350.00 food (about $10.00 per day)
$350.00 bills (heat, electric, phone, dept, insurance)
$350.00 left (toilet paper, toothpaste, a car?, beer?, clothes,diapers)
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