Politics > Politics-USA > Republicans show lack of patriotism by continuing to shaft guardsmen and reservists.
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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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29 Oct 2003 01:12:13 PM |
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Republicans show lack of patriotism by continuing to shaft guardsmen and reservists. |
From The Associated Press, 10/29/03:
http://www.boston.com//dailynews/302/wash/Lawmakers_reject_making_up_pay:.shtml
Lawmakers reject making up pay for federal employees in Guard,
Reserves
By Ken Guggenheim, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP)
House-Senate negotiators considering an $87 billion package for Iraq
and Afghanistan have rejected a Democratic proposal to compensate
federal employees on active duty with the National Guard and reserves.
The proposal by Sen. ***** Durbin, D-Ill., would have made up the
differences between the workers' regular salaries and their service
incomes, as many states and private employers are already doing.
He said 23,000 federal employees would be affected.
The Senate had included the provision in its version of the Iraq
spending bill, but senators in the conference agreed to eliminate it
Tuesday in a 16-13 vote that was mainly along party lines.
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What was all that nonsense about Republicans supporting our troops.
Harry
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| User: "The Pretzel" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans show lack of patriotism by continuing to shaft guardsmen and reservists. |
29 Oct 2003 03:02:05 PM |
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That explains why we haven't had ant terrorist bombings here... The
terrorists hate freedom, America is less free. That explains it!!! Our
country is screwed! Why terrorize us? There you have it! NO TERROR! If
things were goin' great, we'd have more terror then what we could do with..
I hope things don't look up anytime soon...
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| User: "Kenneth-" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans show lack of patriotism by continuing to shaft guardsmenand reservists. |
29 Oct 2003 04:41:50 PM |
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The Pretzel wrote:
That explains why we haven't had ant terrorist bombings here... The
terrorists hate freedom, America is less free. That explains it!!! Our
country is screwed! Why terrorize us? There you have it! NO TERROR! If
things were goin' great, we'd have more terror then what we could do with..
I hope things don't look up anytime soon...
Don't be so sure.
While most of the country is on yellow alert, with the exception of New
York City that has been on orange alert since this color coding started,
we received a new alert in our e-mail.
Every year, the children of federal employees and the local civilians
are allowed to trick-or-treat inside our building. We do a little
decorating and purchase candy for the kids (most of it gets to the them
;-).) and we use our own money for this. In their costumes, they are
guided around to most of the units and the parents were very happy with
this arrangement since their children were assured a safe place to
trick-or-treat.
This year is different. Monday we went to red alert and children are
not going to be allowed in the building because it might threaten their
lives to be where I work. We are being kept in the dark as to what the
threat may be.
This year, I purchased a candy bowl with a hand that comes down on the
persons wrist when they try to take some candy. The kids will never get
to see it.
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