1. What's the best way to support the troops, especially in a time of war? Republicans on the House and Senate veterans' affairs committees have got the answer: raise their taxes. Those Republican majorities voted last week to "impose an enrollment fee of at least $230 a year on 2.4 million veterans - one of every three now eligible for Veterans Affairs Administration health care," according to Military.com. Apparently half of those 2.4 million veterans used the VA health system last year.
George W. Bush has been keen to insist that during a time of war we need to make sacrifices - it's just a shame that the sacrifices apparently have to be made by the soldiers he sent to war in the first place. I mean, I'm sure the top 1 percent who benefited hugely from Bush's tax giveaway could sacrifice, say, that fourth BMW in order to make sure veterans get the health care they deserve. But I guess the Republicans prefer to charge people who have sacrificed plenty already.
These people really have no shame. There’s no reason to think they’re going to sacrifice anything for anybody. The only people the “upper class” care about are themselves. Maybe we need to give them a shovel, and put them to work.
And while I’m here, I’ve got something to say to the plagiarizing, perverted, drunken Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev)
Gibbons is under fire from Nevada Democrats for his speech in general and particularly the lines: "I say we tell those liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock stocking wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else."
well, Jim. I cut trees, I don’t hug them. I don’t know what the fuck Birkenstock stockings are. I don’t have anything that’s tie-dyed. And I don’t whine. I live in the South, I like car racing, I sponsor a race driver, and I wear workboots and a hard hat for work. And I still think you’re an asshole, and so’s your boss, the president bush, who is also a war criminal, and a mass-murderer.
If you have something you want to tell me, well, you just come on right the fuck over and say it, you little wimp-ass.
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