Why is McCain not for the GI Bill?

Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel proposed the new GI Bill, which would bring back WWII-style standards of providing vets with full tuition, room and board. And that is why 51 senators have signed on, including 9 Republicans like John Warner, giving this GI Bill tremendous bi-partisan support.
But it isn't enough. Faced with unprecedented filibusters, the only way to ensure Senate passage of the GI Bill is to get 60 co-sponsors. So far, John McCain has refused. The same McCain who insists he supports our troops. The same McCain who is voting lockstep with the Bush administration (who have also resisted this bill).

Sorry, the WWII, GI bill did NOT pay for full tuition, room and board.

The Veterans Administration paid the university, trade school, or employer up to $500 per year for tuition, books, fees and other training costs. Veterans also received a small living allowance while they were in school. WWII veterans were entitled to one year of full-time training plus time equal to their military service, up to 48 months.

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_20.html

The present GI bill, The Montgomery GI Bill provides up to 36 months of education benefits for college, business, technical, correspondence or vocational courses, apprenticeship or job training, or flight school. Participants can receive over $36,000 in tuition.

http://www.gibill.com/

This was a sore point with my grandfather, a WWII vet, who constantly heard that he received all his expenses paid, when he knew he didn't.

Sorry, the WWII, GI bill did NOT pay for full tuition, room and board.

Howard Roark, No big deal there on the room and board, but the GI bill they have now for our troops sucks. The WWII GI bill has been cut to bits by Reagan,Bush one and two with the republicans help, and the troops really don't benefit a lot from it. McCain don't support a new GI bill.

It is simple,McCain does NOT support the troops ONLY a pointless,endless,wreckless war,McCain has always been against uplifting the poor,the military and of course minorities,after all he opposed making MLK a federal holiday

[QUOTE]Originally posted by VOTE OBAMA:
It is simple,McCain does NOT support the troops ONLY a pointless,endless,wreckless war,McCain has always been against uplifting the poor,the military and of course minorities,after all he opposed making MLK a federal holiday.

The operative word here is opposed - Did you hear him telling the (mostly African-American) crowd in Memphis that NOW that he has come to realize that he was WRONG to oppose the MLK Holiday? All of a sudden, he now thinks it was a good idea... Kind of like a jailhouse conversion where the guy on death row suddenly repents, accepts Jesus as his Lord and Savior, and sees the error of his ways...

Huh - and people used to say that Kerry was a "flip-flopper".... I wonder what made him change his mind???

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If the new GI Bill passes, just give McCain a couple of weeks until he's addressing a group of enlisted men and all of a sudden he'll have another epiphany and say to the crowd, "I was wrong to oppose the new GI Bill. I guess at the time I was just thinking we needed to spend ALL of our money on fighting these islamic radical extremists who present the transcendant threat of the 21st Century. But now that I look back on it, I should have been for it."