GOP abandons veterans
Lynda Hamblen, Union City, Tenn.
U.S. Senate Republicans, including our own Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, threw unemployed veterans under the bus the other day when they filibustered the veterans' jobs bill proposed by President Barack Obama.
The reason? They said the $1 billion jobs bill wasn't paid for, although those supporting it disagreed, claiming it was paid for through spending cuts to other programs. Republicans called these pending cuts "accounting gimmickry."
Strangely enough, Republicans didn't have any trouble supporting President George W. Bush's two unfunded and unbudgeted wars. Nor did they hesitate in passing special appropriations bills full of accounting gimmickry when it came time to borrow the money to pay for those wars.
And they haven't blinked at handing out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies in spite of high deficits stemming from bills they voted for under President Bush.
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