$318 Billion Deal Is Set in Congress for Cutting Taxes

Left-Wing Liberal Lies Are Making Human Shields Of Children And Military Families
Toogood Reports ^ | June 6, 2003 | Bob Ellis


Posted on 06/06/2003 5:34 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen



I know it's been said by others like Ron Marr, but if liberals are going to repeat a lie often enough (which they do) - in the hopes that it will be accepted (which it often is), then I believe we need to keep refuting those lies with the truth as often as the lies are proffered. I'm talking about the most recent Bush tax cut, which has Democrats howling anew.

There is a movement afoot among liberals to extend the child tax credit to families in the $10,500 to $26,625 income bracket which, according to Fortress of Objectivity CNN, includes about 200,000 military families. The key to this effort is the emphasis on MILITARY families and CHILDREN.


The only time liberals give a rip about the military is (1) when they are trying to shrink it, gut it or undermine it, or (2) when they can use the military as a pawn to gain support for some liberal project-not unlike how they sometimes "wrap themselves in the flag" to make themselves look like real patriots. Similarly, the only time liberals are concerned with children is when (1) they want to kill them under the umbrella of "a woman's right to choose," or (2) when they can use them as a pawn to gain support for some liberal project.


According to CNN, Senator Blanche Lincoln, D-Arkansas said:

"When you look at the fact that 12 million children are missing an opportunity to benefit from this tax cut that we've done - these are families. These are working families that play by the rules. They're out there buying the new tires and the blue jeans and the tennis shoes and the washing powder and the cartons and cartons and cartons of milk. We want to give those families the opportunity to stimulate the economy, too."

Oh, boo-hoo! Nobody is saying these families couldn't use more money-I grew up in a low-income family, so I know that number quite well. And nobody's saying the military is overpaid for what they do-I was in the military for 10 years, so I know that song by heart, too. But it isn't really about the liberal's undying support for the military, or their desire to protect "the children," is it?


Where are these people in regard to children when kids need a solid academic education (throwing money at the education bureaucracy and the teacher's unions doesn't count)? Where are the liberals when kids need a good moral foundation (outlawing the Pledge of Allegiance, Bibles, school reports on Jesus, the Ten Commandments, and any other reference to moral absolutes doesn't count)? Where are the liberals when children need to be protected from child molesters and others of the criminal element (liberal judges, corrupt lawyers, lax laws and the enforcement thereof which allows evil dirtbags to victimize children and get off with little or no punishment doesn't count)? Where are the liberals when the parents of these children need their authority supported so they can provide a stable and wholesome household (promoting more "latchkey kids" and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child to allow children to make decisions contrary to the wisdom and protection of their parents doesn't count)?


No, the liberals aren't fooling conservatives. They aren't fooling anyone who doesn't have their head buries in the sand, or their hand out waiting for a freebie. But what about the rest of the ignorant masses that make up cannon fodder for liberal pollsters?


As House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said in the Washington Post, Republicans aren't afraid of a backlash, as long as the public realizes that only families who don't pay taxes are not getting the credit. "This is a tax credit, not a . . . number-of-children benefit program," he said.


That is exactly what liberals like Senator Lincoln and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi want to thwart-the public understanding that a TAX credit is for people who pay TAXES. What the liberals want-to give tax revenue to is people who haven't paid into that tax revenue - this is rightfully called WELFARE. Let's have the courage to call it what it is. It's a gimme, a freebie, a handout, it's unearned, it's welfare.


If Democrats want to give more handouts, more welfare, then they need to summon the courage to call it what it is. But they've realized welfare isn't in vogue anymore; the success of Republican welfare reform has proven greater even than their mountains of lies about it. So they hold out children and military families in front of themselves, as human shields. If someone literally held up a child in front of themselves to deflect attack or criticism, we'd peg them for the lowest form of despicable coward that they were. So are we going to let liberals get away with it, just because they're doing it politically rather than literally?


The Democrats live by the Joseph Goebbels rule: "If you repeat a lie, long enough, and loud enough, it'll become true." The public arena of ideas is like a vacuum: if truth isn't present to fill it, lies will surely rush in to fill the void. We who know the truth must always be ready to counter the lies of the Left, and I hope you'll join me in countering this one-long and loud!

Scat
Military pay is OK if you are single and looking for three squares and a place to flop. However, for a family man with children it hardly fills the bill.

Here's the range of military pay per month from a recent schedule by grade: E1, fresh recruit $1,023; All the following are for 4 years: E2 $1,239, E4 $1.680, E6 $2,034, W1 $2,403, O-1E $2,639, O1 $2,639, O4 $3,983, O7 $6,418. These pay scales do not include other benefits such as a) housing, b) medical care, c) meals, d) flight pay, and e) travel pay. IMHO, they are all under-paid. c.i.

You are going against the tide. There has been much discussion and articles by those who are in a position to know both democrat and republican regarding the inadequacy of military pay.