Why was it a good idea to make stranded US citizens pay for their own

evacuation, when they are caught in hostile locations overseas? :grr:

Whose stupid ass idea was THAT?? :grr:

When the hell did this pass Congress?? :grr:

in the first place. While I don't think these people should have to pay to get out, I can see circumstances where I might consider making people pay.

indescriminately bombing the country. Why did this start again? Oh yes, the capture on one Israeli soldier. While that is a serious issue, he was in the military and bad things frequently happen to those in the military. But apparently that justified killing of a family on a beach. And now it justifies blowing up the entire infrastructure of Lebanon.

Every time I hear the old "Israel just wants to live in peace" shit I just laugh. Be honest folks, Israel just wants to be able to take the best land, control the area's water supply, and have the taxpayers of the United States hand them their hard earned money to pay for their greed.

I don't know if this is the start of WWIII or not. I do know that there never was a chance for peace through negotiation in the Middle East because of who's running the show. Ohlmert and Netanyahu never wanted a peaceful resolution. Well, they got their death and chaos. Just like bush** & Co. got theirs in Iraq. They're all alike. They love death as long as it's not theirs or anyone in their family. And if the dying happen to be Palestinian or Arabic or Persian, hell it's all good to them.

but I can certainly see examples where it could be forseen and maybe should be paid by the evacuee. For example if someone decides to visit North Korea on a site seeing mission and then wants the military to rescue him would have far less of my sypathy than the people in this example.

behind closed doors when no one was looking.

Great huh?

:grr: :argh:

:kick:

to the Millionaires Club?

Seriously, who sponsored that bill and who voted for it?

Congress is responsible; I've been googling, but can't find any references, except to the state dept. :grr: I'd really like to prove Snowjob was lying!

Congress passed this in 2003 and most Democrats voted for it:

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3825&sequence=0

Reimbursements for Emergency Overseas Evacuation. Section 201 would allow the State Department to seek reimbursements for the emergency evacuation of employees of the U.S. government, their dependents, private U.S. citizens, and foreign nationals. According to the department, this section of the bill codifies existing practice and would have no impact on the budget.



http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2001-121

Democrat Republican Independent
Aye 170 175 1
Nay 35 36 2
Absent 3 3 0

using commonsense before voting on them?

Thanks.

and working abroad pay US taxes on that income?

they'd send their mom a bill for their mother's day card