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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed May 11, 2016, 03:55 PM May 2016

Donald Trump Doesn’t Know What the GI Bill Is (or Anything Else)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-soltz/donald-trump-doesnt-know_b_9872222.html

Clearly, Donald Trump has no idea what the GI Bill is — landmark legislation (which was recently updated) that still provides education and job training opportunities to our veterans, so they can better compete with others in their generation who chose getting a degree, or an early start to their career, over military service. It’s part of the compact we make with those who serve, and a promise on which we cannot afford to renege.

Efforts in Congress to chip away at the GI Bill, to pay for other pieces of veterans’ care, have been opposed by many veterans’ groups, and both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. It’s another piece, for another day, as to why chipping away at the GI Bill is a bad idea....

Maybe he cares so little about learning about what the GI Bill is, because he cares so little about veterans. Most of the money he raised “for veterans,” when he bailed on a Republican debate, still hasn’t been given to veterans’ groups.

Regardless, like on pretty much every issue, Trump talks long and loud, to hide the fact that he is utterly and totally clueless. Whether it is his disastrously stupid idea to try to squirm our way out of repaying debt, or thinking you can cut the GI Bill because you’re renegotiating trade deals, the amount of things that Trump doesn’t know, and doesn’t understand, could fill up the crumbling and decrepit Trump Taj Mahal.



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