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Monday, February 07, 2005

Americans support the troops; Bush stabs them in the back
Posted by Jill | 7:06 AM

No sacrifice is too great for our brave boys and girls in uniform to make so that George W. Bush and his friends and cronies can keep their tax cuts:

President Bush's budget would more than double the co-payment charged to many veterans for prescription drugs and would require some to pay a new fee of $250 a year for the privilege of using government health care, administration officials said Sunday.

The proposals, they said, are in the $2.5 trillion budget that Mr. Bush plans to unveil on Monday. White House officials said the budget advanced his goal of cutting the deficit, which hit a record last year.

"We are being tight," Vice President Dick Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday." "This is the tightest budget that has been submitted since we got here."


It's a tight budget because of people like Dick Cheney and his greedy friends, who seek to fill the black hole in their empty souls with as much money as they can stuff into it, in the hope that it'll heal the aching void they feel. It's a tight budget because that additional $30,000 a year they have in their pockets because Bush cut their taxes doesn't make them feel any better; they want more. Maybe just a few dollars more will make them feel better.

Yesterday, about 4,000 people showed up for a pancake breakfast at the Teaneck, NJ Armory. The goal was to raise $20,000 for the Armory's food pantry, which serves the families of the nearly 1200 National Guard troops of the 50th Main Support Battalion who are serving in Iraq in Kuwait. Many of these families have been living for the better part of a year without their primary breadwinner, and for them, this food pantry is the difference between feeding their kids and not.

This is how ordinary Americans support the troops, whether we agree with their cause or not. Others donate to USO Cares or send phone cards to Walter Reed Medical Center, or participate in other fundraising activities. But the greedy bastards who run the show are doubling co-payments for prescription drugs and charging additional fees, rather than make the impotent, mean-spirited, greedy bastards who control the purse strings and American business sacrifice just a little so that these kids and their families can have what they need.

Bush can put on his phony uniforms, hunch his shoulders over a podium, and talk the talk all he wants to. But when it comes to walking the walk of actually providing support to the people who are fighting HIS war, he turns his back on them and tells them to go fuck themselves because Dick Cheney needs a few more bucks to feel like a real man.

It's disgusting, and what's even more disgusting is that there's so little outrage. If Americans won't speak out about this, what WILL they speak out about?
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