Bush wants to CUT the Veterans admin budget next year

[fishface]

while thousands of troops are coming back from his fucking war. Wake up people and start beating this into peoples heads.

Everyone ignored this yesterday...don't let the country ignore it too!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2444732

[dumpster_baby]

1. that is the main reason I oppose Bush

I depend on the VA for health care. Of course the other reason is that Bush will kill have killed and would kill thousands of Americans and Iraqis through war and through lack of health care.

[fishface]

2. Did you see where the DAV has written off the repugnants?

Democrats seek veterans' support

David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


WASHINGTON -- David Gorman of the Disabled American Veterans says Democrats "right now are the only audience we have" that is receptive to calls for additional federal money for more than 26 million men and women who served in the military.

"There's nobody on the other side who will do anything about it," he says of the congressional Republicans who hold power.

Election-year wartime exaggeration or not, it is a welcome assessment to the Democratic leaders in Congress, Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California. They began courting veterans' votes long before decorated Vietnam War veteran John Kerry emerged as their party's presidential nominee.

Executive director Gorman commented after a two-day period in which Pelosi and Daschle forced votes on two proposals backed by veterans' groups: a short-term infusion of funds and costlier restructuring of the financing for health benefits.

Republicans rejected both. It was an outcome that Democrats expected and hope to turn to their advantage.

"Providing for our veterans should not be a partisan issue, but sadly there are real differences between the parties at this time," Pelosi said later.

more at:

http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=28411&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[izzie]

3. Better not do that. Only jobs we are going to have soon

Well maybe he has got some other country that will fight for us and then we can have what is left of the tax payers pay for it.Can any one figure out what they are doing in DC?

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. He's a real CEO, isn't he?

Outsourced the attack on Tora Bora and lost the war; then cut the soldier's pension plan via the Veteran's Administration.

Okay, how much more do common Americans have to be battered before they begin to see the continuing pattern? I mean, the writing is on the wall. Look at the big picture:

1) Shackle the trial attorneys so they have no one to challenge corporations from product liability.

2) Insert conservative judges to the courts to ensure favorable rulings for both political and economic ends.

3) Force young lads to begin the conscription process through the Volunteer service program.

4) Cut Education benefits for kids to force the poor to enlist.

Under George Bush the government is becoming a fascist dictatorship. And these people hated government intervening in their lives. Government is in my face more than ever!

[joshdawg]

5. Just his way of "supporting the troops."

[Paradise]

6. * WILL cut Veterans Administration budget next year,

if elected or reselected!

[fishface]

7. Not if he's sitting back in Crawford in Jan. wondering what happened

to the election fatboy Rove told him was a 'cake walk'. bwhahahahaha :evilgrin:

[Paradise]

8. Yeah, sittin' back in Crawford reading The Iconoclast! :) n/t

[indepat]

9. Could it be our casualties are lower than the neocons really expected?

[UTUSN]

10. Thanks, This Is on the Way to a Couple of My Wingnut Vets

One of them doesn't vote but says he "gives credit" to Shrub because his $2,000/mo disability check (from Vietnam) started up 2 yrs ago, "when (Shrub) was in office." The other one is an all-out wingnut stereotype.