EPIC FAIL! Bachmann's call for batshit crazy benefit cuts angers head of Veterans of Foreign Wars

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bachmann Takes Heat From Veterans' Group for Proposing Benefits Cuts

Published January 29, 2011 | FoxNews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/29/bachmann-takes-heat-veterans-group-proposing-benefits-cuts/



Conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann is taking heat from the nation's largest combat veterans' organization for proposing, as part of a broad list of spending cuts, a combination of reductions and caps in veterans' benefits.

"No way, no how, will we let this proposal get any traction in Congress," Richard Eubank, head of Veterans of Foreign Wars, said in a written statement released Friday.

The Minnesota Republican congresswoman, who is positioning herself as a leading critic of the Obama administration in the wake of the midterm elections, earlier this week outlined $400 billion worth of possible spending cuts. The plan projected huge savings from drastic measures like abolishing the Department of Education, overhauling farm subsidies and eliminating a host of Justice Department grants and programs.

Tucked into the outline was $4.5 billion in cuts targeting veterans. She proposed capping increases for health care spending at the Department of Veterans Affairs and cutting disability payments "to account for (Social Security) disability payments."

[peekaloo]

1. Condom Head

cuz what comes out of her mouth needs to be contained and promptly disposed . }(

[Marr]

2. I'd like to hear their thoughts on education cuts, social security cuts,

welfare reform, and social spending cuts in general before I offer a whole lot of "yeah, buddy, I'm with ya". I know some of these guys, and a lot of them have voted for people like Bachmann specifically because they promise to stick it to those 'lazy minorities' and poor people.

Cuts like this should *always* accompany discussion of social spending cuts. These guys need to understand that they are not a privileged class that will go untouched by the greed of the thieves at the top.

[Lint Head]

3. Believe and be HELIUMED!

[neverforget]

4. I love this watching Republicans actually have to name what they're going

to cut and then the people affected by it scream. Priceless. Most people are all for cuts until it's their program. It's going to be fun watching Republicans ride that horse.

[Submariner]

5. The whiney Veterans are the same idiots who voted these imbeciles

into office. These are the boneheads who vote against their own interests, and are too dumb to notice.

The problem with their stupidity is they also take down Liberals like myself who had their earned VA Healthcare access taken away by the repukes in 2002.

So for these whiny VFW types, I say, STFU. You brought this BS on yourselves.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

8. +1

[madrchsod]

6. just think about the people that elected her...

at least 50% of the people are just as fucked up as she is......scary is`t it.

[JBoy]

7. Even the freepers are saying this was a dumb move.

In between rants about welfare queens and lazy bureaucrats.