McCain's solution to everything is to cut.

[dkf]

Cut taxes, cut spending, cut cut cut, fire teachers, war war war.

He doesn't know how to build anything up, only how to chop it down.

[Bobbie Jo]

1. LOL...he should start with his own campaign.

That's correct Mr. Obvious. :eyes:

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Cut everything but the military and whatever the lobbyists want.

[suston96]

3. It's change you can count on.......

Veterans must find new place to live

Budget cuts forcing state to close Milledgeville home

By RHONDA COOK

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Eighty-one veterans, all with health problems, have been told they must find another place to live by Nov. 30 because budget cuts are forcing the state to close the Milledgeville domiciliary unit at the Georgia War Veterans Home.

The Georgia Department of Veterans Affairs has proposed saving $2.7 million out of its budget by closing the domiciliary, which resembles an old college dorm with communal dining room near the lobby.

Assistant Commissioner Len Glass said about half the displaced veterans will go either to the state veterans hospital units that provide full nursing care or to the federal Veteran’s Administration’s domiciliary in Dublin. He said the agency was helping the rest of the veterans find new homes — maybe with relatives or friends.

Glass said this cut was proposed in response to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s mandate that every agency submit plans to cut their budgets by 6 percent, 8 percent and 10 percent as revenues continue to fall.

“Those 81 veterans represent .0001 percent of the total veteran population,” Glass said, adding that there were about 750,000 veterans in Georgia.

To qualify for the free room and board at the facility, residents must be war veterans who have a medical problem but do not require nursing care. The average age is 64 ½; the youngest resident is 53 and the oldest is 89.

Alarmed legislators have scheduled a meeting in Milledgeville for Friday.

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Now this is change those veterans can count on......

[Neecy]

4. people should think about this

If his 'solution' is to cut taxes in a time of budgetary crisis and a 20B/mo war in Iraq, what's going to go?

Let's see - roads, bridges, highway repair. Funding for your state universities that are resulting in your tuition costs going up. Funding for your state cut to the bone that's raising your property taxes to unheard of levels. Funding for Head Start. Funding for schools that will put your kids even further behind. And the Medicare drug benefit will not survive his 'maverick' cost-cutting ways.

He'll cut you to the bone, America, and give the money to his rich friends and corporate cronies.

[dkf]

5. I thought it was hilarious how he said he'd fight for all those people losing their homes blah blah

I was thinking...HOW? He didn't even say what he meant by that.

[driver8]

6. Well, Bush's solution to everything is to bomb and kill...

so this would make sense, I guess.

All the Rethugs can do is destroy -- they are incapable of creating anything except for poverty, death, and despair.

[dkf]

7. That is why all these years of Republican Presidents are going to

destroy this country and maybe even this planet. Its depressing.

[driver8]

9. Whoops -- I responded to myself...meant to respond to your post

I don't think our country can survive four more years of this bullshit -- I really don't.

I KNOW that I can't...

[driver8]

8. It is very depressing...

I don't think our country can survive four more years of this bullshit -- I really don't.

I KNOW that I can't...

[dtotire]

10. That's the Wrong Solution

To make the economy grow, it takes investment--both public and private. Private investors don't invest unless there is demand. We need Government investment in the country's infrastructure and in the technology to make us less dependent on foreign energy souces. This will create jobs, and stimulate demand, which will generate private investment, creating more jobs. If we can eliminate the balance-of-payments deficit, the money will stay in this country, and we will again eliminate the deficit.