Bushists vow to block funding education bill for returning vets.

[BurtWorm]

Do you have a problem with taxpayers supporting Iraq war veterans' college education? Is it the least we can do to help veterans move on from the degrading, dehumanizing experience of risking their lives and limbs in Iraq for Bush-Cheney and the GOP? According to ABC News, Bush does have a problem with it.


http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/08/administration-.html


Administration Fights Dem Plan to Boost School Aid for Vets
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August 09, 2007 11:55 AM

Alexandra Bahou and Anna Schecter Report:

The Bush administration opposes a Democratic effort to restore full educational benefits for returning veterans, according to an official's comments last week.

Senate Democrats, led by Virginia's Jim Webb, want the government to pay every penny of veterans' educational costs, from tuition at a public university to books, housing and a monthly stipend.

Such a benefit was a major feature of the historic 1944 G.I. Bill, which put more than eight million U.S. soldiers through college and is now credited by historians as fueling the expansion of America's middle class in the post-war era.

But in recent years the benefit has dwindled; under the current law, passed in 1985, veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can expect Uncle Sam to cover only 75 percent of their tuition costs. That's not enough, say Democrats and veterans' advocates.

More than 450,000 used the benefit last year, at a cost to taxpayers of $2 billion, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which administers the program. The Democratic proposal would cost an additional $5.4 billion a year, the VA estimates -- and that's too much, it says.

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[Mythsaje]

1. Compared to the cost of the war

it's a drop in the bucket.

Oh, what if we had a real, open, and honest press in this country...this would be plastered all over the newspapers and tv screens.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Restoring what was promised

Not increasing. Restoring. Anyone who thinks Bush cares a rap about the troops needs to read this article.

[MissWaverly]

3. Is this Support the Troops, oh, I see now

it was never about supporting the troops, it was supporting contractors to drive empty trailer trucks with 1 bag of mail
aboard to collect bucks from the US taxpayers.