Piper Dude is working 30 hr week at $5.40 an hour in hopes of being able to pay for college, he is not just a teen looking for spending money. In-state 3 credit classes are $633 plus fees. That’s just about 5-6 weeks to pay for one class, not counting taxes taken from wages, books, car insurance, gas and maybe eating. Many adults are working at minimum wage or just a little over it and trying to support families.

So how in the world do the Democrats think it was ok to tack this bill onto the Iraq withdrawal bill that President Bush said he would veto long before it was finalized?

In the Atlanta Journal Constitution there is a article by Edward Kennedy justifying them tacking the bills together.

Now I guess the Democrats can say they tried to fulfill campaign promises and it’s President Bush’s fault it didn’t go through. But is it really fulfilling promises when doing a bill in such a way that you absolutely know the President has already said he would veto? I don’t think so. I think they are all mouth and nothing else.

Used to be we were Republicans and Democrats durning the election, then once it was over, pulled together mostly for the sake of the country. As long as they continue to pull party lines, nothing good will ever get done.