Bloated Defense Budgets=Corruption, Social Program Cuts-Well You’ll Miss Them When Needed, Veteran Program Shortfalls Speak For Themselves and This Nation!!
Budget Favors Defense: 141 Programs to Be Cut or Halted
President Bush plans to propose a $2.7 trillion budget tomorrow that would shrink most parts of the government unrelated to the nation’s security while slowing spending on Medicare by $36 billion during the next five years, according to White House documents.
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President to send Congress
$439.3 billion defense budget
February 3, 2006
WASHINGTON – President Bush’s 2007 budget seeks a nearly 5 percent increase in Defense Department spending, to $439.3 billion, with significantly more money for weapons programs, according to senior Pentagon officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Some Key Facts Concerning The President’s Budget Priorities For 2007
WASHINGTON – February 3 – In this week’s State of the Union, President Bush outlined the priorities of the Administration’s forthcoming budget. Several key facts necessary to understanding the impact of the President’s proposals, however, were not mentioned in the speech.
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Saturday, 4 February 2006
Let’s Fund VA Health Care
I went to the VA Hospital a few weeks ago to see the cardiologist. A few days later, I was sitting in surgical intensive care with a triple coronary bypass. I wasn’t even feeling sick before the hospital appointment.
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Vet issue-Sorry, Charlie: Your Time Is Up
New rules on how much time veterans groups have to present budget testimony to Congress seem designed to limit vets’ influence on funding decisions.
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“We had no notions of being heroes … we missed normalcy”:
Sergeant and sophomore Fonda Fan describes her year in Iraq
Fonda Fan, a sophomore English major at UC Berkeley, returned in November from a year in Iraq. Now 20, Sergeant Fan joined the Army Reserves at 17, just after finishing high school in Los Angeles. In October 2004, after her freshman year at Berkeley, she was deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her unit was stationed in Tikrit, in central northern Iraq. She began her “in country” tour with three other women in the unit, but before long, two were transferred elsewhere. Since her service contract does not end until 2008, she expects to be called up again.
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Combat soldiers face many struggles
HIBBING — When Sgt. First Class Keith Huff of the Army National Guard arrived home in Minnesota in January of 2005 after serving a year in Iraq, he didn’t realize his homecoming would be so difficult.
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2/02/2006
‘Peace Takes Courage’ New Animation
Why?
2/01/2006
Help PTC Win the Huffington Post Contagious Festival
View The ‘Peace Takes Courage’ Entry’s
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“Every Bomb dropped in Iraq Explodes over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast!!”
“If Everyone In This Country Lost A Brother/Sister, A Son/Daughter Or Grandson/Grandaughter, Things Would Be Very Different”
Vietnam War History 101:
“The Only Glory In War, Is In The Imagination Of Those Who Were Never There”