And, yes, I DO take it personally: Presidential extortion

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Friday, November 30, 2007

Presidential extortion

happy holidays, all you government employees out there...! our president wants to hold your jobs and holiday shopping money hostage to his insanity... what a GUY...!

President Bush warned Congress yesterday that the Pentagon will soon have to start laying off civilian employees and reducing operations at U.S. military bases unless lawmakers send him an emergency war funding bill that does not mandate troop withdrawals from Iraq.

full disclosure: both my son and daughter-in-law, with whom i make my home when i am in the u.s., are civilian government employees, altho' not with the defense department...

Labels: Congress, Defense Department, George Bush, government employees, holiday season, Iraq, Iraq war funding proposal, Iraq withdrawal, Pentagon