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Not only are the Bush administration and the Congress shortchanging active duty military personnel in furnishing them with inadequate armor, abusing the deployment schedule, oppressing the National Guard and making of the Army Reserve a "broken force," but now we learn that banks, creditors and others are violating the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, which is supposed to protect all active-duty military families from foreclosures, evictions and other financial consequences of military service.

The hypocrisy of the Bush administration and the Congress has long been evident as they wrap themselves in the flag and utter glowing statements about supporting our troops even as they shortchange the military through the budget and even as they continually underfund veterans benefits. One comes to expect from these people little more than this cut of behavior. So it really isn't too surprising that the business interests--of which the government has become a wholly owned subsidiary--now do the same. When will we wake up?