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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (487635)	11/5/2003 4:24:37 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm talking about this- if this is inaccurate I would like to know. Occassionally I travel in and around Camp Pendleton and I hear some things, but they could be old news etc. Pay cuts possible for Guard members in Mideast And now, unless Congress renews stipend increases approved in April for soldiers sent away from their families and into a war zone, many are facing a pay cut on Oct. 1. Troops in Iraq face pay cut The Defense Department supports the cuts, saying its budget can't sustain the higher payments amid a host of other priorities. But the proposed cuts have stirred anger among military families and veterans' groups and even prompted an editorial attack in the Army Times, a weekly newspaper for military personnel and their families that is seldom so outspoken. Now that I read these I realize that these cuts may well have been averted. But it doesn't matter. The fact that the defense dept can support pay cuts for military personnel after the Bush administration has gone on the biggest federal spending binge in history just boggles the mind. And this is why the people at camp pendleton want to get rid of Rumsfeld.