Taking Care of the Troops

The smallest pay raise for troops in more than a decade and billions of dollars for expensive weapons programs highlight the proposed 2007 defense budget unveiled Monday by the Bushies. The $439 billion budget plan would represent a 7 percent increase over the budget Congress approved for this year and it includes a 2.2-percent military pay increase. The 2.2 percent raise — tied to a government index of private-sector wage growth — would be the smallest since 1994.

There goes Georgie again. Use them as political props when he's in trouble, forget them at all other times.
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