"In Bush’s first three years funding for the Veterans Administration increased 27%. And if Bush's 2005 budget is approved, funding for his full four-year term will amount to an increase of 37.6%.
In the eight years of the Clinton administration the increase was 31.7%
Those figures include mandatory spending for such things as payments to veterans for service-connected disabilities, over which Congress and presidents have little control. But Bush has increased the discretionary portion of veterans funding even more than the mandatory portion has increased. Discretionary funding under Bush is up 30.2%.
By any measure, veterans funding is going up faster under Bush than under Clinton."
I would suggest you do some checking on facts that are thrown around which at best are misleading, If I were to say a person would be given a raise of $100.00 per week next year and ended up giving them only $50.00 they would say they took a pay cut. They certainly didn't get a hundred dollar raise but to say they took a pay cut is an Illusion. If you look at the hard numbers you'll find that is almost normal regarding goverment numbers.
As for the the felons I don't know who you are talking about, please provide the names if you have them.
As for your future, I believe I am correct why I say your generation will be the first one since this country was formed, that will not be better off than the previous generation. That in itself is very telling.
You very well may be correct regarding who is on the Defense Policy Board but I will assume its best to have someone from the Defense Contractors providing information and which weapon systems are available, rather than someone who is a CEO from a large Corporation. I would want the best person for the job rather than what boards they sit on.
You may not realize it but at the close of WW2 we took as many Nazis scientists as we could get to help us build our rocket programs. Is that right or wrong, I don’t know, but as of today we are the leader in that field.
I like most people live from day to day and like most do not see that far into the future, although as you get older you plan a little further out. The leaders should be looking ahead 20-30 years or more. The good leaders do the bad don’t.
People my age don’t charge machine guns, people your age do.
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Originally Posted by TUNDRAV8GEORGIA
Being twenty would be nice again but I honestly feel bad for those who are because this country is going to be a second rate power in 10-15 years. <
That allready took place We are a second Rate world Country In term's of chief Economics.My question to you right now Are Wars Good for the this future Economy and what lies ahead for people like us in our twenties. For a student like me enrolled part time at Georgia Tech will my career goals still be present In the IT industry  . The future right now doesn't look very rewarding with who's in Office nor should it. I Hope someday we have a change In our goverment and the way it's handled..
On a side Note In a pledge to America, George W. Bush vowed to restore integrity and dignity to the White House after the Clinton years. - Well, let me pose a few examples of Bush’s idea of decency. Please tell me where the integrity and dignity is?
He appoined 2 convicted felons to high positions, sidestepping Congressional approval. (allway's a plus there money and power talk  )
He appointed a plethora of former Enron executives to various positions.
He built a Defense Policy Board consisting of 9 members who sit on the corporate board of at least one defense contractor. One person sits on the board of 9 defense contractors.
He increased defense spending while he cut Veterans benefits and he cut funds for the education of children of persons in the military.
Bush campaigned on the promise of Compassionate Conservatism and last of all were fighting a war and have NO general ideal what's going On so either way were all screwed with whoever is in power .............
p.s yellbird I had to give this a lot of though writing enjoy haha  |