Pardon me,but F%ck the Repubs..Indiana vets fight funding cuts

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/02/14/steve-avery-indiana-republicans-vote-to-cut-veterans-benefits/

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Indiana American Legion To Fight
Effort To Cut Veterans’ Benefit
Indianapolis – In a straight party line vote, the Republican members of the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee voted to drastically reduce the long standing Indiana veterans benefit commonly referred to as “remission of fees”. This state benefit, since 1935, has provided state college tuition to the children of service connected disabled veterans living in Indiana. SB 577, authored by Senator Luke Kenley from Noblesville, is the bill, a portion of which, makes the cuts. The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, AMVETS and the Disabled American Veterans as well as other veteran representatives testified before the committee that to cut this benefit in a time of war and with thousands of Indiana Guard and Reserve troops returning home from combat every month, is unthinkable. In spite of the warnings from the veterans’ groups, all of the Republican members of the committee voted to move forward with the legislation. The four Democrats on the committee voiced concerns similar to those raised by the veterans and all voted no. A companion bill asking for many of the same cuts is being authored in the Indiana House by Rep. Tom Dermody, Republican from LaPorte.



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[aquart]

1. What utter bastards. "Support the troops", my ass.

[AC_Mem]

2. If there is any positive to be found in all this

Surely - surely they are making the next election a Democratic sweep. If the sheep who voted for this and are hurt by this vote for it again, I just f-ing give up.

Annette
who's heart goes out to the vetrans, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor - all of whom the Republicans seem to hate and want to suffer.

[still_one]

4. what did the 2010 midterms tell you? Indiana essentially went republican. What does that say?

[AC_Mem]

6. I would be interested to know

How many voted in 2008 and how many voted in 2010. I would be interested to see how many democrats voted republican in 2010. If it was fear that drove this vote, well then we are watching their fears come true.

I know this - I'm in Tennessee (not much better unfortunately) and I volunteered. We called thousands and people said they would go vote. I honestly don't know what happened, but I just don't believe that the masses that voted for our President and a Democratic America voted all out for Republicans.

I remember that horror of the commercials, the hate, the lies and slander, and it was almost entirely GOP. It certainly didn't make me think that they had a better way. It repulsed me.

So what happened? I don't know but I just don't believe that the majority really wanted this. 2008 was too strong.

Remember? Because no matter what, I can't forget.

[still_one]

7. I meant 2010, but you got my point, and articulated it far better than I . Most likely

those that voted in 2008 didn't vote republican in 2010, but didn't vote I would think, but it would be interesting to know

[still_one]

3. well, the people of Indiana voted them in /nt

[Peregrine Took]

5. How many of these veterans voted Tea Party or rethug?

I imagine quite a few.

[provis99]

8. yet soldiers and vets vote overwhelmingly Republican.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. That's why I left the American Legion back in the 1970s.

Having been born and raised here in the south, I thought maybe these assholes had moved on by 1973. I moved back to Alabama after serving two years in Washington, DC, and they were worse than ever. Every time I went to the damn place it was always the same old white guys trashing black people and hippies.