Vermont Pulling National Guard Troops From Iraq?

    "If the president believes there's still a need to have our National Guard in Iraq to stabilize that country or whatever, it's his job to go back to Congress and ask for that authorization," Fisher added. "The president doesn't have the authority to permanently federalize our Guards." Vermont State Representative Michael Fisher (D-Lincoln) speaking to OneWorld.

   This past Wednesday, Vermont State legislators went ahead and introduced some legislation that pretty much demands that their National Guard troops be brought back from Iraq. Minnesota, , Pennsylvania, and  New Hampshire lawmakers are thinking of doing the same thing, according to OneWorld writer

Aaron Glantz.

  All of the states which have troops in Iraq should take the same measures as Vermont is to get our people back home to the U.S. I seriously doubt that President Bush has any legal authority to use members of the National Guard, whose sole purpose is to help with major disasters in our own country, not in the Middle East or elsewhere. Of course, things such as the laws have never stopped this moron in the past and I doubt if such things will at this time.

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U.S. House Of Representatives Economic News Fact Sheet

  From The Gavel

1) 17,000: Employers cut payrolls by 17,000 for the first time in more than four years, with job losses in manufacturing, construction, and financial services.

2) 3.4 million: President Bush is tied for the worst jobs record of any President since the Great Depression, with 3.4 million manufacturing jobs lost.

3)  Less than 1 percent: Economic growth in the fourth quarter was a sluggish 0.6 percent — its slowest pace since 2002.

4)  2.2 million: Nationwide, the foreclosure rate jumped 75 percent – with 2.2 million filings – in 2007.

5) $3.50: Families are paying $2.98 a gallon for gasoline — double the price in 2001, and three times the amount for home heating oil over 2001, and the price of crude oil recently peaked at record of $100 per barrel. Experts estimate that the average national price of gasoline could rise to a record $3.50 a gallon or more by June, with prices approaching $4 a gallon in some areas.

   Booming economy Mr. Bush? HMMM

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