"Charlie Wolf" <charlie_wolf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:50:27 -0500, "Tom" <tomtk3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Charlie
>>
>> Check the latest budget submitted lots of cuts aimed at vets.
> The Clinton Administration flatlined the VA budget for 5 years in a
> row.
>
> The Bush Administration has increased the VA budget by more than 38%
> in 7 years.
stop the ****ing lying,
you lying cocksucking bush zombie,
only the republicons and conservatives have
no regard for veterans, fool, them, kill and wound them and then **** them
and their families, typical of what you LYING s***bags do to everybody
except the wealthy
businesses, bribers,lobbyists, and campaign sup****ters
A week ago, the president summoned leaders from veterans groups to attend
his live-TV speech urging on the troops in Iraq. "People serving in the
military are giving their best for this country," Bush said earnestly,
"and
we have the responsibility to give them our full sup****t. . . ." But while
the president's $62.6 billion supplemental funding would provide fuel and
supplies for the troops and benefits for the people of Iraq, Bush didn't
mention that his agenda includes a $150 million aid cut to schools
attended
by military dependents and sup****t for billions in VA reductions.
Is anyone surprised? Sla****ng the VA budget is almost a presidential
ritual.
Ronald Reagan, the celluloid warrior, proposed firing 20,000 VA medical
personnel and scrapping part of the VA counseling program-in the midst of
a
suicidal epidemic among Vietnam vets in the 1980s. Even decorated
ex-trooper
George Bush pared $600 million from the VA and revoked the lousy $237 once
given to families to help bury veterans. (Ironically, one of the vets best
friends was the undrafted Bill Clinton, who increased benefits and pay
with
the Veterans Programs Enhancement Act of 1998.)
"My father," says Vietnam vet Willson, "a U.S. Marine, came back from Iwo
Jima with spots on his lungs from being buried in the volcanic sand there.
He never got diddly out of the VA in compensation. They treated him like
****. He was of that generation where you didnt push things much and died
in
his middle 60s from brain tumors. My great-grandfather was a Civil War vet
and spent his postwar years battling to get his $15 pension. I fought with
the VA for two years over my son, who was born with spina bifida. I made a
claim related to Agent Orange, which they denied-only open-spine condition
is covered, not the type he has. My Uncle Frank, a Spanish-American War
veteran, used to say, 'I cudgel my cerebellum trying to figure out how
Wa****ngton is going to screw the veteran next.'"
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