Why do Bush and McCain want less educated Americans?

[NNN0LHI]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/362916_youngonline14.html

Where Bush draws the line on Iraq costs: education benefits for veterans

<snip>Such is the case in Congress right now with debate over veterans benefits contained in a supplemental bill to fund what we're doing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Too expensive? Ahem.

President Bush has threatened to use his rarely flexed veto pen against this measure if it contains a bipartisan expansion of the GI Bill of Rights and other veterans benefits. snip

By contrast we're talking about $2 billion a year for veterans who have laid it on the line for what's adding up as a $2 trillion enterprise.

Sen. John McCain has sided with the president in opposing it. Although he supports increasing education aid, McCain says this is too expensive. snip

If the original GI Bill required a six-year military commitment for full benefits, this nation never would have seen the benefits that produced so many college graduates who populated the "greatest generation." They went to war in 1941. They came home in 1945.

Not only did they reap great benefits from the GI Bill, so did the nation. In a strictly fiduciary sense, for dollars returned, it was possibly the best-spent wad of money in America's history. So, excuse some groups such as the American Legion for choosing not to place a new GI Bill in the "expense" category. They see it as an investment. snip

Costofwar.com estimates that the United States spends $341.4 million per day in Iraq. We'll spend more there this week there than the New GI Bill would cost us in a year.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Easier to control as a mass or a group.

They don't think of reasons to challenge what they're being told or told to do. Lemmings.

[Elspeth]

15. Yeep

:kick:

[BlooInBloo]

2. Because that's the only way republicans can get elected.

[midnight]

3. I don't understand why this is acceptable?

Costofwar.com estimates that the United States spends $341.4 million per day in Iraq. We'll spend more there this week there than the New GI Bill would cost us in a year.

[hisownpetard]

4. Sorry, but shouldn't that be "Why *DO* Bush and McCain want less educated Americans?

:shrug:

[ThomWV]

8. Don't be sorry.

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. Only if the irony is unintentional nt

[hisownpetard]

12. Oh, d'oh! My bad.

[Richard Steele]

11. Not if you consider "Bush and McCain" to be a single, indivisible unit.

[ThomWV]

13. That's what the word "and" inbetween their names is there for, to make them an indivisable unit.

[Richard Steele]

14. I say we try to make an exception in their case!

At least in the minds of the voting public, anyway...

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. AFSC says $720 million a day is spent on Iraq

[jakem]

6. DOnt forget Hillary! White and uneducated, does the trick!

[RedCappedBandit]

7. Because as education increases, people tend to be more LIBERAL!

We ain't a dumb bunch.

[AndyTiedye]

10. Because Repiglickin Propaganda Works Better on Uneducated People