Posts Tagged ‘false promises’

Gee, color me not surprised.  If you are a big fan of Bush, you may want to browse somewhere else now—-but then again, maybe you should stay and see how poorly (as usual) what his mouth says matches with reality.

Do you all recall the applause at the SOTU address when he said he wanted military members to be able to transfer their GI Bill benefits to family members?  Yeah, words as empty as his head, folks.

” Bush drew great applause during his State of the Union address last month when he called on Congress to allow U.S. troops to transfer their unused education benefits to family members. “Our military families serve our nation, they inspire our nation, and tonight our nation honors them,” he said.

A week later, however, when Bush submitted his $3.1 trillion federal budget to Congress, he included no funding for such an initiative, which government analysts calculate could cost $1 billion to $2 billion annually.” http://tinyurl.com/39qcvq

Many of you probably are thinking, “But the GI Bill money is THERE already, right?  So what ‘more’ money is needed?”   You see, the GI Bill funding is based on usage…about two billion a year.  And most of the time service members use only about half their allotment (I contend because of various roadblock pains in the ass intentionally reared)…but if that “transfer of benefits” happened?  Oh my….well, then the REAL amount promised would have to ACTUALLY be available.  And you know, THAT amount is not there, not budgeted and not going to be.

Yeah, I am soooo not feeling the love.  Smoke and mirrors, bait and switch, burying the mushrooms in darkness and bullshit, business as usual.  Me, bitter?  No.  Pissed? YES!