Republicans send mostly the poor to war, dont fund it, then kill the jobs and blame the same people they just sent to war to defend our freedom.
Could Merck be looking for a war chest to fund a major acquisition?
The House has voted to approve a bill to fund the war in Iraq through July.
The tipping point was the disclosure that allies of Mugabe had looted a pension fund for war veterans.
But he voted to fund the war, saying he didn't want to rob the military of needed resources.
Their point made, they sent him another bill, without a timetable, that will fund the war until September.
The Taliban are also able to fund their war with opium, a product that will always be in demand.
In approving the measure to fund the war in Iraq in two installments, the House defied a presidential veto threat.
And by the next year, when you were in the Senate, you were voting to fund the war time after time after time.
If the government wants to spend more (such as to fund a war) without creating a deficit, revenues must be increased or spending reduced.
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The legislation would fund the war through September and set out a series of benchmarks that the Iraqi government will be asked to meet.
Can we use it to fund the war effort or compensate those families who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center terrorist act?
Most of the abductions are thought to be carried out by Chechen separatists who demand high ransoms to fund their war for independence from Russia.
The bill would fund the war for the rest of the fiscal year, while also setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country.
When they come from the latter, though, the profits from their export are used to fund the war that is devastating the eastern part of the country.
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To say, look, if we're going to fund this war, then we need to see the Iraqi government pulling its weight, making progress in a certain key areas.
Congress can also threaten down the line to take out their frustration on what's called emergency supplemental bills, voting against the multi-billion dollar packages that literally fund the war.
Speaking to journalists, the president also criticized Congress for failing to fund the war on terror, make permanent the Foreign Intelligence Security Act, or FISA, and to revise the alternative minimum tax.
He didn't say what he'd raised so far, but he did make some news by saying that the Democrats will continue to fund the war in Iraq even without a deadline for withdrawal.
Like the distinction between the Democrats and the Republicans and the White House and Congress seems to be, okay, we'll fund the war, we'll support the troops, we want success, but there can't be a timeline.
Refusing to fund a lawful war is not only undemocratic, but it undermines our military and compromises the President's authority.
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It would be unlikely that Americans would accept higher taxes today to fund a real war, let alone a pretend one.
Talisman claims to have convinced the government to set up a fund to help war-ravaged areas, an idea the government claims as its own.
"A lot of folks may think that there's nothing wrong with buying a knockoff Denver Broncos jersey, but in reality, the money is being used to fund the drug war in Mexico, " Abar said.
Moving to President Nixon's tenure in office, on March 26, 1969, he extended the 10% tax surcharge allegedly necessary to fund the Vietnam War, which was 10% on top of already-nosebleed rates of taxation that were 70% for the biggest earners.
He is determined to make his case for continued U.S. aid to fund Colombia's war on drugs and terrorism, and to persuade skeptical lawmakers his government is committed to the rule of law.
It was first passed in 1898 as a luxury tax to fund the Spanish-American War.
The restricted election for chief executive is murky enough without the sense that the new fund might provide an electoral war chest.
Now the Limbless Association, a UK-based support charity, has set up a fund to help victims of the war in Iraq.
And because these limited, "hard money" donations will help fund the party's ad war against GOP nominee George W. Bush, they could make a big difference in the final weeks before election day.
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