Senator Stevens Caught Undermining the Troops

What Stevens is really saying is that today's troops are unpatriotic -- that they're only in it for the money and the college.
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Stevens is the guy best known for the "Internet is a series of tubes" thing and for ongoing corruption investigations.

He's against the new GI Bill, and is openly against helping out vets. Check out GOP Senator, VA Secretary Disrespect Troops on Memorial Day:

Speaking at the Disabled American Veterans' 19th Annual Department Convention, Senator Stevens told the majority of America's most recent war veterans that they had not yet sacrificed enough to have earned a GI Bill that would cover the full cost of their educations.

Sen. Ted Stevens warned of a "mass exodus" from the military Saturday if the so-called 21st Century GI Bill goes into law without major changes.

"There are worries that people who are already in for two years will serve one more and leave, and there's really no incentive to stay," Stevens said.

What Stevens is really saying is that today's troops are unpatriotic--that they're only in it for the money and the college. And while Stevens' "mass exodus" theory has been thoroughly discredited by the Congressional Budget Office, the true irony of the situation lies in the fact that Stevens earned his own college degree after World War Two by using the same GI Bill he's aiming to prevent today's veterans from receiving.

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