Article #1 is from Connecticut on the impact of federal budget decisions on local programs serving homeless veterans.
The Republican-led house of Representatives passed a federal budget cutting, more than 60 billion dollars in spending.
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What the congressional budget cutters cut was 75 million dollars for the program [Veterans Assisted Support Housing] nationally according to Courtney on the mistaken notion that there is some kind of backlog of unused vouchers around the country.
"It just shows, ya know, what you see on TV down in Washington, can really affect things right at home," says Courtney.
Courtney gave the bad news to the Legion leaders today, but said he hopes that reason will eventually prevail in Washington.
Courtney says this is the kind of short sighted budget cutting that the public doesn't really want.
Article #2 points to the continuing support for military advertising at NASCAR events as well as special tax breaks solely for NASCAR events. Representative Betty McCollum of Minnesota sponsored an amendment that would've removed this. It was quickly defeated.
“I have nothing against Nascar,” McCollum said Thursday in a phone interview. “The Defense Department said it didn’t have anything that could be cut. Seven million dollars to sponsor a car and we’re cutting cops, we’re cutting teachers, we’re cutting programs for homeless vets?”
Her argument seemed solid. She pointed out that the Army, the Air Force and the National Guard spend millions of dollars on sponsorship — $100 million over the past 10 years.
McCollum’s amendment sought to prohibit taxpayer funds from being used for sponsorship of racecars, dragsters, Indy cars and motorcycle racing. She also wanted to repeal the $45 million special tax earmark for Nascar and race track owners included in the 2010 law that extended the Bush tax cuts.
What does those two articles say about the priorities of our nation?
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