Bush VA Budget Cut Links Abound

[Nitrogenica]

Future cuts?

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/16684548.htm

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyNCZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzA3Njc3OSZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTI=

Democrats slam budget cuts for Veterans services. (2005)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/19/dems.radio/

ADMINISTRATION'S BUDGET WOULD CUT HEAVILY INTO
MANY AREAS OF DOMESTIC DISCRETIONARY SPENDING AFTER 2005

http://www.cbpp.org/2-27-04bud2.htm


"according to the Disabled American Veterans, the Bush Budget could effectively ignore over 520,000 Priority Group 8 veterans, denying them access to the VA health system by 2005"

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/il09_schakowsky/pr2_02_2004budgetbush.html

Veterans Groups Critical of Bush's VA Budget (2004)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24665-2004Mar2?language=printer

Senator Mikulski Stands Up for Veterans in Fiscal Year 2005 VA Budget

http://mikulski.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=220152

Snapshot of How VA Budget Shortfall is Hurting Veterans’Access to Safe and Timely Care across the Nation

http://veterans.house.gov/democratic/budget/snapshot6-29-05.htm

"I don't understand how someone can stand up and say, 'I'm pro-military,' when you want to cut $16 billion from the VA and close VA hospitals"

http://www.tedmills.com/2004/03/the_interview_of_the_unknown_s.html

"The president ignored veterans in the State of the Union Address and with today's release of his 2005 budget, it is further evident that veterans are no longer a priority with this administration" ~Veterans of Foreign Wars, Feb 2 2004

http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.newsDtl&did=1576

"Support the Warrior Not the War: Give Them Their Benefits!" ~Common Dreams March 28, 2003

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0328-11.htm

"Veterans' care squeezed by VA
Many lose coverage under new policy" May 2003

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/05/25/loc_VAhealthcare.html

"It all started when George Bush needed to cut $85 billion in 2003 so he could make his second tax cut possible. The cut to future funding for vets came while Americans were holding rallies with the cry to "Support Our Troops". Even then I asked how we were to support our troops in war when we won’t support them after the war?
The House of Representatives voted to cut funding for veteran's health care and benefit programs $85 billion over the next ten years. It narrowly passed by a vote of 215 to 212, and came just a day after Congress passed a resolution to 'Support Our Troops.'" ~ March 2006

http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=559

"The Bush Administration's 2004 budget proposed gutting Veterans Administration (VA) services, including health care funding. Proposed cuts included: denying at least 360,000 veterans access to health care; $250 annual premiums; increased pharmacy co-payments; a 30 percent increased primary care co-payments; and increased waiting time for a first medical appointment.

Because of budgetary shortfalls, the VA suspended the enrollment of veterans not injured in service earning between $24,450 and $38,100 annually. VFW officials estimated the administration's VA budget is at least $2 billion short of meeting the demand for quality health care.

The FY 2004 budget approved by Congress calls for reducing VA funding over a 10-year period by $6.2 billion. Cuts are in the areas of veterans' health care and disability benefits." ~January 2004

http://www.thinkingpeace.com/pages/Articles/arts141.html

Claim vs. Fact: Treatment of Troops at a Time of War

http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/bushtroops.htm

AFGE RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT'S EFFORT TO CUT VETERANS HEALTH CARE FUNDING
"Recent news reports offer fresh evidence that the president is playing a budget shell game with our veterans’ health care"

http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressReleases&PressReleaseID=585


I found so many articles like this I can't list them all. Ask any * supported why this is suddenly news now? Why has their awareness been so terribly supressed?

DO they really support the troops, or do they support the "idea" of troops fighting and killing for freedom, but beyond that who cares?

Ask them why are there an estimated "200,000 homeless veterans on any given night"?

http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm

Why do we even have to have a National Coalition for Homeless Veterans?

Perhaps it is OUR time to sport "Support The Troops" magnets on our vehicles.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/03/02/stockpile-builds-of-unsol_n_42506.html

I'm game as long as nobody is getting rich off the sales, all the profits should be donated to the troops. Why the hell have the righties given up on that mantra anyway? I hardly see a "that thing got a hemi" with that magnet anymore.

[Monkeyman]

1. Thank You For Posting this K&R

[MadMaddie]

2. I agree with Monkeyman..thanks for posting.

Another K&R

[pnorman]

3. I was just getting ready to Google for some of this material.

THANKS!

pnorman

[Monkeyman]

4. Isent this out again thanks

[IndianaGreen]

5. But, but, Republicans support the troops...

but only for photo ops.

[ninkasi]

6. This says it all

From your post..."It all started when George Bush needed to cut $85 billion in 2003 so he could make his second tax cut possible."

In order to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans, he gutted funds which should have been used to help our bravest Americans. Whenever a Republic is in power, the rich always come out ahead, no matter what group, veterans, the poor, children, the disabled, the uninsured, have to suffer, the rich will always profit.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. This will also kill 'Privitization'

AKA the GOP's philosophy to life.

[ShortnFiery]

8. It's asinine that as Dimson's hyping "This is a time of War" he then cuts the VA Budget.

:crazy: :(

[Nitrogenica]

9. We all were screaming about this bullshit the summer of 2004!!

We all know why nobody was listening to us, and again, WE were right all along!!

(shouting)