Saturday, April 30, 2005
What our taxes are used for.
Thanks to Faramin who advised me about the video,
I couldn't access it, so went over to Michael Moore's site.
There is an article entitled "How Far Will The Army Go?"
which tells about a 17 year old high school student's experiences when he decided to see how far the recruiters would go to sign up soldiers who were not up to grade. First, he told the recruiter that he dropped out of school - the recruiter told him how to get a fake degree. He also said he had a marijuana problem. No problem, the recruiter told him he could take a detoxification...
The army says it is conducting a full investigation.
Here's the link for the video -it does require Quicktime. I'm downloading the free copy as I type.
Rexroths Daughter has also has posted a link to the movie.
Update: Quicktime downloaded and video watched... Nice going, high school journalist and honor student, David McSwane!
Speaking of military, since we have been in Iraq since 2003, you might enjoy this article by Robert Scheer "Fiddling While Crucial Programs Starve." Remember this? "There is a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money," then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Congress days before the war, in testimony on the potential costs of invading Iraq. "We are talking about a country that can finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon." In the real world, however, this turned out to be utter nonsense.
..."Government is not here to do everything for everybody," admonished Missouri state Rep. Jodi Stefanick, a Republican representing suburban St. Louis. "We have to draw the line somewhere." Just not in Iraq, apparently....
Also mentioned in his article is this, about Missouri, ...Already the red state of Missouri is set to end its Medicaid program entirely within the next three years because of a lack of funds. As the Los Angeles Times reported, that will save the state $5 billion, but at the cost of ending healthcare for the more than 1 million Missourians enrolled in the program. That sum is less than half of what Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, alone has been paid for reconstruction efforts in Iraq, without much to show for it in terms of improving the Iraqis' quality of life...
I guess we know where we rate with the feds, eh?
I couldn't access it, so went over to Michael Moore's site.
There is an article entitled "How Far Will The Army Go?"
which tells about a 17 year old high school student's experiences when he decided to see how far the recruiters would go to sign up soldiers who were not up to grade. First, he told the recruiter that he dropped out of school - the recruiter told him how to get a fake degree. He also said he had a marijuana problem. No problem, the recruiter told him he could take a detoxification...
The army says it is conducting a full investigation.
Here's the link for the video -it does require Quicktime. I'm downloading the free copy as I type.
Rexroths Daughter has also has posted a link to the movie.
Update: Quicktime downloaded and video watched... Nice going, high school journalist and honor student, David McSwane!
Speaking of military, since we have been in Iraq since 2003, you might enjoy this article by Robert Scheer "Fiddling While Crucial Programs Starve." Remember this? "There is a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money," then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Congress days before the war, in testimony on the potential costs of invading Iraq. "We are talking about a country that can finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon." In the real world, however, this turned out to be utter nonsense.
..."Government is not here to do everything for everybody," admonished Missouri state Rep. Jodi Stefanick, a Republican representing suburban St. Louis. "We have to draw the line somewhere." Just not in Iraq, apparently....
Also mentioned in his article is this, about Missouri, ...Already the red state of Missouri is set to end its Medicaid program entirely within the next three years because of a lack of funds. As the Los Angeles Times reported, that will save the state $5 billion, but at the cost of ending healthcare for the more than 1 million Missourians enrolled in the program. That sum is less than half of what Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, alone has been paid for reconstruction efforts in Iraq, without much to show for it in terms of improving the Iraqis' quality of life...
I guess we know where we rate with the feds, eh?
