Reply #37: uggh the woman and half this country are nuts!!

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Blankenbecler is most upset about two things.

One is the rule that widows call the SBP-DIC offset, which actually takes away a dollar from one
benefit for every dollar they get in the other.

"It's disgusting," Blankenbecler said.

The second is a provision in a bill Bush signed in December 2003 that added an extra $250 per
dependent child to the DIC payment. But widows whose husbands died before the effective date --
Jan. 1, 2005 -- saw little or nothing of that benefit.

Blankenbecler said that's grossly unfair.

"I told him I was very disappointed that he would sign something like that," she said. "I know
that he doesn't understand everything that he signs, completely. So he asked one of his aides if
he knew which bill I was talking about, and he told the guy to check into that.

"And he said he was sorry that I was disappointed, and that there's so many bills out there. I
just got the impression that he didn't know which one I was talking about, and he probably didn't
realize what he had done."

My Comments on this: Since when do we the American people accept that the President does not fully
understand the things he signs? Some Americans have truly lost their minds, The President has a
staff full of people who are supposed to explain what he is signing to him its very important that
the President not only KNOW what he is signing but actually UNDERSTAND the content. For a host of
reasons that I know I don?t have to explain to you all. But maybe someone needs to explain this to
the rest of America because I am frankly sick of hearing how its okay that the President of This
COUNTRY does not understand or know what he is doing. Here is a woman whose husband was sent off
to war by this President being okay with him no knowing or understanding what he is doing, I have
no grasp of how someone who loves their spouse or family member can be okay with this. My friends
hug me and kiss my forehead and touch my hand when I am grieving all the time yet I don?t think
many of them are qualified to be President. Well judging by this standard they are prob more
qualified than Bush, because not one of them leave me after a few minutes they show true
compassion by sticking around and helping out!!