President Bush Should Pay the Military for Imminent Danger Even if We Have to Cut Our Pay to Do It

President Bush and the Republican led Congress should ensure that our valiant men and women serving in the war-zones of Iraq and Afghanistan receive the full benefits they were promised in April. As was written about in today's San Francisco Chronicle, unless the President and Congressional leaders act, men and women who live under the threat of attack every day, and their families here at home that are trying to make due without them will lose $75 a month in "imminent danger pay" and $150 a month in "family separation allowances."If we have trouble paying the military, surely the President, who makes $400,000 a year, the cabinet and members of Congress can take a pay cut to chip in on the bill.

Something is seriously wrong with a President who thinks it's okay for the wealthiest Americans to get $900 billion in tax cuts, but spending $300 million this year to pay our men and women in danger in Iraq and Afghanistan is too much.

Decisions like this will continue to cause the American public to lose confidence in George Bush. The American people deserve a President we can trust to tell us the straight facts, accept responsibility for his mistakes and support our military and their families while they are in harm's way.