As I Have Experienced It…
From Nixon to now: When the Republicans were in power they spent billions on overpriced ships, planes, hammers, and toilet seats. Their friends own the companies that rip off our government. At the same time our pay and benefits eroded.
When the Democrats were in power they spent money on the troops by giving us pay raises and cost of living increases. Jimmy Carter, a real veteran and a real christian, gave us the largest pay raise in history.If you want to support the troops, my experience in the last 36 years tells me to vote Democratic.
Here is an under reported story:
McCain’s attack on vets
His respectful rhetoric isn’t matched by his votes.
MORE THAN A FEW people have been puzzled by Sen. John McCain’s dogged opposition to the updated GI Bill of Rights now before Congress. The dissonance between McCain’s military-man image and his actions on this issue have introduced a jarring note to his presidential aspirations — and have highlighted the shoddy treatment many Iraq war veterans have received.
FOR THE RECORD:
FOR THE RECORD:
Why would a Vietnam War veteran and former prisoner of war, a man who is personally acquainted with the difficulties vets can face in returning to civilian life, join President Bush in opposing a popular bipartisan bill to support the troops? Isn’t fixing the education benefit in the bill — one that has shortchanged far too many veterans for years — a political no-brainer in an election year? The 75 senators who recently voted for it certainly thought so. Over the Memorial Day weekend, Sen. Barack Obama expressed some well-timed astonishment at McCain’s opposition, and the two have been feuding about it ever since. The media and pundits seem perplexed, collectively suggesting: That’s not the John McCain we know.
Which is true: It is the John McCain they don’t know.
