NC Senators Back Weak Military Education Plan, Want to Keep Education from Military Members
Posted on May 14, 2008
Today, the U.S. Senate blocked the McCain-backed military education program.
The McCain/Graham plan calls for would give only $2,000 a month for service members that have more than 12 years of military service and was offered as an alternative to the much more effective Webb plan which would give service members 36 months of tuition, book costs, and a stipend.
McCain and Graham claim that Webb’s plan is too extensive and provides too much of an educational benefit for enlisted service members. Their fear is that with such an education plan, young enlisted men and women would be less likely to commit to lifelong military service and would serve their enlistments, take their education, and leave military service. McCain and Graham prefer to keep the education opportunities limited for enlisted service members. McCain and Graham, long hailed as strong supporters of the military, want to keep military members low on socio-economic scale in the U.S. McCain and Graham feel that it is possible to provide too much education to those few who choose to defend Americans and our Constitution.
NC Senators Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr both voted for the McCain/Graham plan. Dole and Burr prefer to keep American service members uneducated and without a progressive and extensive education plan.
Is that supporting the troops? Or is that the first steps in establishing a caste system in America?
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After the brajillion dollars spent in Iraq to line the pockets of BushCo, the one thing the Republicans have no right to complain about ever again is expense.
Interesting that they should pull that out on this bill, though. It’s ok to spend all that money on getting soldiers killed pointlessly, but not to spend a few bucks to get them educated?
‘Shameless’ is the only word I can use on someone else’s blog to describe that.