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msnbc. We are taking care of our military. Rump bragging last 5 minutes how the (Original Post) riversedge May 2017 OP
now talking of the great Wall. riversedge May 2017 #1
The crazy rolls on. GreatCaesarsGhost May 2017 #2
He was bragging how he got money-a down payment on the Wall. That is not true. The money riversedge May 2017 #3
He doesn't realize that without the Dems, the budget wouldn't have passed GreatCaesarsGhost May 2017 #6
"Trump touts spending deal hours after blasting it" is the screen runner riversedge May 2017 #4
He has plans for the military to help him with his coup. Kingofalldems May 2017 #5
Historically, the nation's military personnel are only cared for during periods of conflict. haele May 2017 #7
Well if you don't count the coast guard Corgigal May 2017 #8
Politicizing the military. Kingofalldems May 2017 #9

riversedge

(70,087 posts)
3. He was bragging how he got money-a down payment on the Wall. That is not true. The money
Tue May 2, 2017, 12:08 PM
May 2017

goes for repairs for the present wall as far as I know.


haele

(12,640 posts)
7. Historically, the nation's military personnel are only cared for during periods of conflict.
Tue May 2, 2017, 12:12 PM
May 2017

Drumpf and the GOP are flat out liars when it comes to military personnel. They are always taking care of the MIC and pork politics, not personnel at all times.

When public attention is focused on the families and small-town communities where their "boys and girls" are being sent to the meat grinder and are either not coming back or are coming back permanently damaged.
After there's no blood and sacrifice to make "heroes" for media exploitation, those "heroes" find themselves on their own, and their families left to care for them. Unless, of course, some liberal Congress-critters are on top of maintaining the funding for VA and a slew of rehabilitation and promised benefits programs that military personnel signed up for in lieu of better pay for the risks they were potentially taking or the semi-skilled/skilled labor they were providing for a contracted number of years.
But from what I've seen from this GOP congress, "the American Taxpayer just can't keep supporting soldiers and sailors who were careless".
They're going to have fall in line and to pay their own way through life like all the other disposable poor folk have to do, no matter what the contract says. Saw it during the Bush years, expect it to be a return to Hoover during the Trump years with this current crop of mealy-mouthed Christianist predators.

Haele

Corgigal

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8. Well if you don't count the coast guard
Tue May 2, 2017, 12:12 PM
May 2017

You know the ones the rich people demand to help them when the ships motor dies. I guess they can pay that towing charges after all. A bunch of rich people are gonna be so pissed.

Yeah, I know the coast guard does much more, just talking about the rich audience. Yeah, they scream for help all the time to save money.

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