Thursday, March 21, 2013

The budget will pay for renovations to Guantanamo while there are perfectly good prisions sitting empty on USA soil, but, there is no money for Medicare. Yeah and I was born yesterday.


Guantánamo: the most expensive prison on earth (click here)

The cost to house a captive at Guantánamo Bay is $800,000 per year, far in excess of other federal or state lockups.

Posted on Friday, 11.25.11


...That’s more than 30 times the cost of keeping a captive on U.S. soil....

These are the Republican priorities for the USA. Spend monies on prisons to house idiots of terror while there are empty maximum security prisons in the USA while they rob the elderly blind and stick it to them while they die.

The Republicans would like to call it honor, but, it is far from it.


National Security Policy Is Foiled by Congressional Politics and Bureaucratic Infighting (click here)

Carol Rosenberg

Posted:   |  Updated: 01/04/2013 9:15 am EST
President Barack Obama signed (click here) the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, despite his own threat to veto it over prohibitions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Civil liberties advocates had roundly criticized the bill over Guantanamo and a separate section that could allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens on suspicions of supporting terrorism. Just as he did with last year's version of the bill, however, Obama decided that the need to pass the NDAA, which also sets the armed forces' $633 billion budget for the 2013 fiscal year, was simply "too great to ignore," according to a presidential signing statement released in the early morning hours Thursday.
Members of the human rights coalition that had urged Obama to follow through on his veto threat blasted his decision as a cave to congressional Republicans....

There you have it, the people of the USA have been successfully duped again! Forbid Wall Street should skip a beat. 

It also passed a Senate-approved bill to avert a government shutdown on March 27. (click here)
Susan Davis, USA TODAY
2:59p.m. EDT March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House narrowly approved a conservative budget plan authored by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, 221-207, on Thursday on a largely party-line vote.

The fiscal blueprint does not have the force of law but outlines the GOP's priorities over a 10-year budget window to reduce the deficit and overhaul the Medicare system.

No Democrats voted for the plan. "House Republicans decided to double down on the failed policies that the American people rejected just a few months ago," said Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash.
The Democratic Senate is debating a competing budget Thursday with passage scheduled Friday. Congress will then adjourn for a two-week spring recess....

Democrats wouldn't vote for it regardless of President Obama's pandering. Hello?

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