Obama signs bill funding Iraq, Afghanistan wars, swine flu fight, fuel-efficient auto push

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Source: AP/LAT

Obama signs bill funding Iraq, Afghanistan wars, swine flu fight, fuel-efficient auto push
By Associated Press

5:19 PM PDT, June 24, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure keeping the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from running out of money.

The $106 billion spending bill also includes money to fight swine flu and a "cash for clunkers" program encouraging drivers to switch to more fuel-efficient cars. Obama says the spending is important and thanked Congress for putting politics aside.

Obama says the legislation will pay for winding down of the war in Iraq and defeating terrorists in Afghanistan.

The White House and its Democratic allies insist that this will be the last time Congress will be compelled to pass an emergency war bill that is outside the normal budget process and thus goes directly to an increase in the national debt.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-obama-war-funds,1,6338976.story

[ddiver]

1. So he spend my taxes on the wars and giving the rich a break on their new cars.

I must have missed that in the campaign speeches.

[onehandle]

3. The rich?

What do you consider rich?

[ddiver]

5. Take a wild guess who buys more NEW cars. The rich or the poor.

My father had 1 new car in his life. My wife has had 1 and I have never had one. I think people who buy new cars are overwhelmingly richer than most.

[sandnsea]

8. I agree on that one

It was originally introduced to include used cars, I think Michigan fought to make it for new cars only.

[JDPriestly]

13. We bought a new car in 1992 (or maybe 1993, it's been a long time).

We still have the car. So, sometimes people who are not rich buy a new car. By the way it was a pretty low priced car. We are not rich, not at all rich.

[pasto76]

6. cause you're a typical american, caught up in his own puny little world.

among other things, some more sinister than others, PRESIDENT OBAMA has signed into law what effectively is OVERTIME pay for troops who have met their contractual obligation to the Army, but have had life plans, educations plans, retirement plans put on hold by STOP LOSS. They will be compensated for being sopt loss-ed.

Also, funding for the GOLD STAR children, to ensure that the loss of a parent, and income, will not stand in the way of them going to college.


THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I VOTED FOR.

SGT PASTO

[Arctic Dave]

7. No one forced them to join, they all volunteered.

The military is the biggest welfare queenof them all.

[pasto76]

9. and you, are in the biggest shitbag demographic.

did you volunteer for that?

and you dont know anything beyond some bullshit anti government, anti military (yeah man, cuz it ALL the industrial military machine man!) rhetoric. I served with true heroes. Something about which you will never know. And you speak ill of them. This makes you a shitbag.

[Arctic Dave]

12. I was a volunteer too. So what.

Heros. Get over yourself. You were part of an invasion and occupation force just like I was. FYI 2003 wasn't the first time poeple were deployed over there. Also, how many Iraqi kids get the college benefit.

[onehandle]

2. delete

[lindisfarne]

4. I think we should just cut off the money to the military & let the troops figure out how to get out

alive. (That's what some DUers must think should happen if they criticize approving the money while making progress on plan to pull troops out gradually).

The "cash for clunkers" program allows people to purchase cars/SUVs that only minimally improve over what they had. But better than just turning cash over to CEOs in auto industry.

Wasn't there money for IMF loans in there, too?

"Obama says the legislation will pay for winding down of the war in Iraq and defeating terrorists in Afghanistan.

The White House and its Democratic allies insist that this will be the last time Congress will be compelled to pass an emergency war bill that is outside the normal budget process and thus goes directly to an increase in the national debt."

[Flaneur]

10. Yay! More billions for imperial wars.

I wonder what else we could be doing with that money.

[Amonester]

11. Imperial, illegal, and unwinnable,

That money should be given to Bankers too. No strings attached.

/cynical-sarcasm