PATRIOTISM ON THE CHEAP: AN ARMY TIMES.COM EDITORIAL

[mburbank]

Your problem is a lack of imagination. There are plenty of ways to pay the military what they deserve instead of treating them like a cross between campaign bumper stickers and cannon fodder.

How about 3, we scrap early deployment of star wars? or 4, make companies with offshore po boxes listed as corporate headquarters pay taxes? Or 5, make the president pay for his own bogus psuedo militray photo opps? Or 6, give oil contracts in Iraq to the lowest feasible bid instead of directly awarding them to Haliburton? Or 7, have the justice department actually persue financial restitution for the massive damage done to the economy by Enron and Worldcom? Or 8, make incumbents pay for transportation out of their campaign funds when they go to, say California to fundraise instead of billing it directly to the taxpayer? Or 8, make corporations pay their kickbacks for legislation written by paid lobbyists into military compensation packages instead of campaign coffers? Or 9, make lobbyists who got there jobs strictly due to blood relationships with and access to highly placed administration offcials join an 'adopt a soldier' program? Or 10, pith useless mooks like you with a knitting needle and give your organs free of charge to Military hospitals?