It is a disgrace that Citizen Smash has to say: "... at a time when many enlisted men and women were struggling to provide the basics for their families." Pentagon spends billions of dollars on $1,000 hammers, on failed anti-ballistic programs; they lose track of millions of dollars of funding; they subsidize Halliburton... But they cannot give a decent salary to soldiers who have to ask for charity. There is no excuse for Pentagon not to double the salaries of soldiers on the ground without any noticeable effect on the budget.
Posted by laza at February 18, 2004 05:20 PM