the tangled web of spending increases....

[tardfarmer]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...3/165317.shtml


Senate OKs Money for Guard, Reserve, Nixes VA Money
NewsMax.com Wires
Thursday, April 14, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday agreed to make sure that federal employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve don't lose pay when they are activated.

It also agreed to expand benefits for the families of soldiers killed, regardless of whether the deaths occurred in combat.
The measures were added to an $80.6 billion emergency spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other costs. They are among a series of Democratic amendments that have been politically awkward for Republicans eager to show support for troops, but also looking to contain costs.
On Tuesday, Republicans defeated a proposal to add $2 billion for veterans health care. But on Wednesday, several members of the GOP majority voted to go along with Democratic proposals.

The amendment to make up the salary difference for federal employees activated for National Guard or Reserve duty was approved in a voice vote after a Republican attempt to derail it failed, 61-39.


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This bill also gave amnesty to almost 1 million illegals - I never heard of one line item veto in the damn thing.....

GAWD, repub and dems are both trying to make me stroke out...

[bnhcomputing]

That's the political monster. Attach something unpopular (illegals) to a popular (millitary) bill.

I said it back in 2000 when Bush was running the first time:

Bush wins, learn Spanish, the Mexicans are coming.
Gore wins, learn Chinese, the jobs are all going to China.

Hind sight being 20/20, looks like they both won. The illegals aren't illegal any more, and all the jobs are going to China. Bush favors both of these, and he supposed to looking out for me and mine? Not from where I sit!

Interesting the both parties claim to be pro-American, and then both do so many anti-American things.

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[tardfarmer]

Maybe an extended vacation at GTMO will straighten your A$$ out??!!

As long as i'm not on the bottom of the "naked butt pyramids" ..

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[CalHunter]

I don't think hardly anybody opposes the military spending part of the bill. And I think most of us think it's a crock that they can attach an illegal alien amnesty bill to the military bill. Each bill should pass or get voted down on its' own merits or lack thereof. And we all know that the amnesty bill would have gone down in flames of defeat if it had stood on its' own.[:@]

[badshotbob]

I heard the other day that a government official from a small country across the pond stubbed his toe causing bruising so GW sent him 278 million.

[tardfarmer]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...8/150235.shtml

Mexican emigrants will send as much as $20 billion in cash this year
to relatives in Mexico, according to projections by Mexico's Central Bank.

That figure is three times what total remittances were five years ago,
when the amount was $6.6 billion. If the 2005 estimates hold true,
remittances probably would become the largest source of foreign exchange
in Mexico, bank officials said, surpassing even oil.

Bank President Guillermo Ortiz projected that over the next seven to
eight years, remittances will grow by 20 percent annually.
He also raised the expected growth rate of the nation's economy to 4.2
percent, from the 3.8 percent initially forecast

Mexico and India lead the world in the value of remittances their
diasporas send home, ranking ahead of China, Pakistan and the Philippines.
Last year, India received $17.5 billion in remittances from the United States.

[James B]

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Three and a half more years.

[North Texan]

ORIGINAL: James B

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Three and a half more years.

Scary. Even scarier is who's going to replace him. Will it be Hillary Clinton, Bill Frist, John McCain, Bill Richardson, Wesley Clark?????? I would like for the next election to have a real candidate that I would like to vote for. Not like this having to choose the lesser of two evils we've been having.