There’s this silly meme going around now, comparing the cuts being given to the military for education with programs helping illegal immigrant children get an education.
The reason he is giving her that expression is because the statement she makes is absolutely wrong (and stupid: “only” way? No one else gets aid? Give me a break.)
This is a false comparison. The federal government funds the military and thanks to the sequester, money is being cut from the military budget. Blame the Republicans for forcing the sequester through (it was their idea) and then trying to convince all of us it’s Obama’s fault.
The other example is from states like Colorado, and has nothing to do with federal funding. In Colorado, children who were brought here illegally by their parents and thus had no choice in the matter and who graduated from Colorado high school, were never arrested, were applying for citizenship, and who kept good grades were allowed to go to Colorado public colleges at the same rate as a Colorado citizen. Not greater than, exactly the same as. No tuition given to them, just the same discount as all the kids they went to High School with.
Isn’t that what we want? Good kids with good grades becoming good citizens, paying taxes, and then staying in the US to help our economy? Don’t we want to encourage that?
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Neither of the programs should be getting cut. The sequester was a bi-partisan effort to create a crisis so Congress would be forced to act. what we’ve learned is out government now doesn’t even function in times of crisis.
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Agreed on that. I’m surprised that with the bloat we have in the military budget, veteran’s benefits are being cut. Surely there are other things that can be cut, such as planes we don’t need that the military doesn’t want (but politicians do).
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I’d think we’d want to re-think where we have troops stationed around the world. We still have troops at the intra German border that no longer exists. Japan could certainly pay for it’s own self defense. Apparently we do need to keep troops at the North Koren border, since they are acting like a country with a death wish.
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I agree. The military has a huge budget to begin with; they should evaluate as to where it is being spent. The number of young people joining up has been declining. You would think they would try to make joining the military more appealing, not less so.
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