US SENATORS USE TROOP FUNDING FOR PET PROJECTS - BY RADENA
This doesn't surprise me but it truly angers me. What a way to begin the day!
Evidently a World War II museum and and institution named after Edward Kennedy are far more important to the Democrats than our troops who are risking their lives on the battlefield each and every day. The article states that Senator Tom Coburn called this a disgrace. It's far more than simply a disgrace... it's criminal. I can't even begin to imagine being any angrier than I already am. If I found out about this with my husband in Afghanistan fighting a war I'd probably explode. These days it's not only husbands, it's wives and children of both sexes. The families of our soldiers will be even more angry about this than I am, if that's even possible. As a woman who is married to a Vietnam Veteran my heart goes out not only to the soldiers on the ground but to their families as well.
Go ahead, Democrats. Keep it up and once your voted out of office you won't gain control of government for the next forty years, if even then!
RaDena - Blasting Caps And Dynamite
U.S. Troop Funds Diverted to Pet ProjectsThere's a lot more at the link.
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.
Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.
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Evidently a World War II museum and and institution named after Edward Kennedy are far more important to the Democrats than our troops who are risking their lives on the battlefield each and every day. The article states that Senator Tom Coburn called this a disgrace. It's far more than simply a disgrace... it's criminal. I can't even begin to imagine being any angrier than I already am. If I found out about this with my husband in Afghanistan fighting a war I'd probably explode. These days it's not only husbands, it's wives and children of both sexes. The families of our soldiers will be even more angry about this than I am, if that's even possible. As a woman who is married to a Vietnam Veteran my heart goes out not only to the soldiers on the ground but to their families as well.
Go ahead, Democrats. Keep it up and once your voted out of office you won't gain control of government for the next forty years, if even then!
RaDena - Blasting Caps And Dynamite
posted by The Liberal Lie The Conservative Truth | 9:05 AM
5 Comments:
RaDena - this is not only outragious but dispicable in so many ways. Funding for troops is specifically there to provide necessary needs to best prepare and protect the troops especially when at war.
If these Senators want to use the funda then they should stand a post and share the risk of being under fire. Until they do then keep their filthy paws of troop funding!
I'm surprised our troops even have funding at this point.
Good stuff, just added you to my own blogroll.
I know I'm dreaming, but. . . .
A bill should NOT be allowed passage through Kongress with ANY riders, attachments or amendments that are NOT directly associated with the purpose of that bill.
If an amendment CANNOT stand on its own, then it should be allowed to die a slow, lingering and painful death.
B Woodman
III-per
Anlong with the Kongress Kritter that attempted to attach it. . .
B Woodman
III-per
I agree, Woodman.
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