[MilCom] IL Community Funds Radios For Deployed Guard Members

[lrk]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 06:31:48PM -0500, jeff wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 16:10, Ken wrote:
> > Well his another example of the unbelievable  Army's logic and what some 
> > backhome citizen's did about it.
> 
> in theory, the hometown citizens already PAID for this.
> Try to follow my twisted logic:
> 
> The president stated that the US gave 40% of the world total
> humanitarian aid last year, to the tune of $2.4 BILLION.

$12 from every man, woman, and child. Eat a couple of meals at home or
skip a movie.

 
> He has asked for (and has received) hundreds of billions more.
> If we add in the non-humanitarian aid figures plus Iraq, it appears that
> there's a LOT of money pouring out of the country.  Since money comes
> from taxes, WE are paying an awful lot of money and have no say where it
> goes.  I for one think we have more pressing problems locally.

Republicans don't "tax and spend", they "borrow and spend". Your grandkids
get stuck with the bill.

Worry more about your 30% pay cut due to devaluation of the dollar.

 
> Yet after all this, there is insufficient money for basic communications
> gear for our brave troops?

Of course not. But it makes a better news story if the folks back home are
doing something to help.

 
> Someone needs to do the math here because 2+2 just does NOT equal what
> we're getting fleeced for in taxes.  

Forget the taxes, demand your rights back. Demand the politicians obey
the Constitution.

 
> If we weren't so busy with reality tv and beer, we would riot.

If Americans were educated, Dubya would not BE president.


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