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Kerry Proposes Other People's G.I. Bill, More Soldiers, Still Terribly Bitter
...Kerry's legislation would provide tax incentives to employers who keep deployed guardsmen and reservists on their payrolls, and create new loans and grants for self-employed troops to help get their businesses running again...Several portions of Kerry's bill — the health care expansion and increases in the death benefit, for example — are already being considered in Congress. Kerry's proposal also calls for 30,000 new Army soldiers and 10,000 more Marines, whom he says are needed not for Iraq and Afghanistan but instead for the future demands of the war on terrorism. He used Tuesday's forum to criticize President Bush's decision not to send more troops to secure Iraq, and reiterated complaints from his failed presidential campaign that Bush has not really reached out to other nations to assist in rebuilding that country. And he blamed his election loss on the power of Bush's incumbency, saying that the administration has since used many of his proposals, such as increasing the military death benefit and improving national intelligence. "They had a bully pulpit that we didn't have and they have an automatic trust factor we didn't have," he said. "Americans accepted that I could be the commander in chief. What they were unwilling to do was shift commanders in midstream." Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-02-17 |
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