Great Idea ~ Send your rebate to the troops!
January 28, 2008
Glenn Hunter over at D had a great idea. Send your $600 rebate check to troops who are or have served in Iraq. Very nice idea. He suggest that Sessions or Johnson coordinate the effort, I second his suggestion:
OK, 117 million of us are getting a check ($600 per individual, $1,200 for couples) as part of the federal stimulus package, right? And, while we all “support” our U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s widely acknowledged that few of us civilians have sacrificed anything in the war effort, right? OK, so how about if we start a national campaign to turn over the free dough we’re about to get from the feds to the individual soldiers who’ve fought, or are fighting, on our behalf in the Middle East? Strictly voluntary, of course. Would any of our military-supporting local Congress members (Sessions? Johnson?) be willing to jump-start coordinating such a mammoth undertaking (probably through a private-sector fundraising administrator)?
