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Re: Bush vows to veto children's health care bill ... because it's too costly?

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Originally Posted by dannotoronto View Post
You received 20 years of taxpayer subsidized health care, food and shelter.

Why are you entitled to those things but the very people who pay to provide those things to the military aren't entitled to the same privileges?
Apples and oranges.
He performed a service to the United States Government (read taxpayers) and recieved compensation for that service as laid out in the contract between him and the government.
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