porkchopexpress
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porkchopexpress said:President Bush and Republican controlled Congress passed a measure to cut the Veterans Administration budget, which was already underfunded and weak to begin with, by 10 billion over the next 10 years, including a 1 BILLION dollar shortfall this year. How can anyone say this is supporting the troops? Bush avoided combat then does this to the troops - do you support this?
How can you support this? It's a national disgrace.
porkchopexpress said:President Bush and Republican controlled Congress passed a measure to cut the Veterans Administration budget,
debate_junkie said:I would sooner see him cut welfare than the VA's budget. Their hospital's are already understaffed, and care for many disabled veterans is going to go swirly. It IS a disgrace to ask for America to support the troops already in combat, but with the swipe of a pen disregard a veteran who's ALREADY served his country.
porkchopexpress said:President Bush and Republican controlled Congress passed a measure to cut the Veterans Administration budget, which was already underfunded and weak to begin with, by 10 billion over the next 10 years, including a 1 BILLION dollar shortfall this year. How can anyone say this is supporting the troops? Bush avoided combat then does this to the troops - do you support this?
How can you support this? It's a national disgrace.
Stinger said:It's a disgrace when people post such malarky without checking out the facts.
ShamMol said:And cnredd, I was gonna post the factcheck.org article as well, but you beat me to it. I am a big fan of their work and actually I have a friend who is applying to work there in his second semester this year.
ShamMol said:This is the problem as I see it. It isn't that he didn't increase it enough. It was the he didn't forsee the problem that he would encounter.
You seemed to have not read the rest of my post about how it is providing inadequate treatment to the increased numbers of people in the system. But nevertheless, I will go on and say that you are correct in saying that it is an agency and we must judge it accordingly.Stinger said:There is no reason to believe that our veterens are not recieving the top most care and that the Administration is not doing everything it can for them. But let's do keep in mind the VA IS a government agency and judge it accordingly.
porkchopexpress said:President Bush and Republican controlled Congress passed a measure to cut the Veterans Administration budget, which was already underfunded and weak to begin with, by 10 billion over the next 10 years, including a 1 BILLION dollar shortfall this year. How can anyone say this is supporting the troops? Bush avoided combat then does this to the troops - do you support this?
How can you support this? It's a national disgrace.
And that will have absolutely no effect on what I said. I said that everyone has to get the same treatment. There is different treatment availiable to a reg military than to someone who is in the reserves. Once someone has been treated and is in the reserves, they are sol. They don't get continual treatment unlike those in the reg military. That type of stuff. She would never find that in her military hospital.SKILMATIC said:Well the only true way to find out if the vets are getting enough care si to ask them. So let me have my mom(who works at a naval hospital)ask around. Lets see what we will find. Results will be in the end of the week.
But the problem with that attitude is that with this war it has changed. In past wars, they weren't deployed in such numbers and didn't have the same number of casualties/injuries and thus it was not even on our radar screen. My point being this. They have served our country honorably and when they are injured (long lasting included) they are basically shown the door. Those people need and deserve the same care that our reg military gets because they are doing basically the same jobs.SKILMATIC said:Well you arent going to give full treatment if someone served in the reserves you idiot. :doh
That is understandable becasue you only serve one weekend a month and 2 weeks in the year. And it wouldnt be fair to those who serve full active duty for several years to get the same treatment and benefits as those who only serve 16hours a month.
Do you even know anything about how the military works as far as benefits? You need to know this before speaking on this thread. If you dont then you have no room to talk on these matters if you had no partake in them.
The simlple fact of the matter is my mom would becasue they always do a medical screening or evaluation in the form of physical and backround check. My mom's rate is a corpman and she works as a lpo of her section at Balboa hospital.
I already got some results in today. And they are very intriguing. Considering 90% of those seen today were active duty.
All the queston is going to be is do you think you are gettting adequate medical care and beneifits considering what type of duty you are in whther it be active duty or reservist? That way it puts the answer in the persons hands. They have the choice to say no or yes. It realy is a simple question. I dont know how this would be impossible?
BTW-downloaded a copy and I am going to start paging through it tonight.
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