![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
news
House panel approves pay raise for troops
The pay increase and other service benefits included in the bill — such as a prohibition on increased health care fees — is more than President Bush wants.
And re: last year's smaller increase -
The White House opposed the increase because it said it would cost more than $2 billion if maintained for five years.
$2 billion over 5 years! Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw! Does Mr. Bush have any idea how big our defense budget is? (To be fair, he probably does not). The military eats billion dollar bills for breakfast. $2 billion is peanuts. Small, mutant peanuts.
But this is where the GOP chickenhawks come home to roost (or whatever). Despite all of the GOP's "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" gum-flapping, the military is part of the working class, which is really just the butt of the big Republican joke.
@_@. OVER IT.
The pay increase and other service benefits included in the bill — such as a prohibition on increased health care fees — is more than President Bush wants.
And re: last year's smaller increase -
The White House opposed the increase because it said it would cost more than $2 billion if maintained for five years.
$2 billion over 5 years! Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw! Does Mr. Bush have any idea how big our defense budget is? (To be fair, he probably does not). The military eats billion dollar bills for breakfast. $2 billion is peanuts. Small, mutant peanuts.
But this is where the GOP chickenhawks come home to roost (or whatever). Despite all of the GOP's "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" gum-flapping, the military is part of the working class, which is really just the butt of the big Republican joke.
@_@. OVER IT.