My plans were to have this blog be only minimally political and mostly insanely fun political incorrectness, but recent events have forced me to make my first post be about a very serious topic. In the future feel free to check back and enjoy lighthearted mirth and merriment.
During a gov. shutdown the troops might not get paid! Why? Because even though the house Republicans passed a bill to fund the military up till September, the President has said he will veto it! Understand this bill does not outline an entire budget through the end of the fiscal year. They could pass it, fund the military and go right back into arguing about how to avoid a non military gov. shutdown. However they want to try to force the Republicans into funding planned parenthood and NPR. They are basically saying if you give us what we want then we will fund the military. The truth is that military pay should not be used as a bargaining chip. Furthermore, if the Dems thought it was so important they could have passed this years budget last year when they were supposed to. Why didn't they? Because they did not want to be on the record in an election year passing a back breaking budget. Right now we should be passing next years budget, but because the Democrats want to play politics we are on the verge of a government shutdown. I would urge everyone to call their senators and ask them to pass the military funding bill, but the truth is they think the Republicans are going to be blamed so they really don't care what you have to say.
