Veterans groups summoned to White House on debt ceiling impact

[Zephie]

Washington (CNN) -- Veterans advocacy groups have been called to the White House for a late afternoon meeting Tuesday to be briefed by Obama administration officials on the impact to veterans if Congress does not pass legislation raising the debt ceiling.

"We were notified late last night of the meeting," says David Autry, spokesman for Disabled American Veterans (DAV). Autry and several other veterans advocacy groups say a growing number of veterans are worried their disability check or other benefits could be cut or withheld if the debt ceiling crisis is not resolved.

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"As lawmakers and the White House haggle over how to deal with the national debt and federal spending, the uncertainty over what actions our government might take is causing unnecessary and harmful anxiety in the American public at large and veterans and their families, specifically," said Barry A. Jesinoski, executive director of the DAV.

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President Barack Obama recently raised the spectre of cuts in federal benefits to veterans and Social Security benefits if the debt ceiling is not raised. Republicans have called that a scare tactic

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/07/26/debt.veterans/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. They are getting ready for this folks

and it is not good

[kentuck]

2. Oh, they are just trying to scare them....

Didn't you hear what the Tea Party said? :sarcasm:

[sasha031]

3. wouldn't mind seeing the veterans go after the tea baggers

this is getting real scary though, how I hope the President just pulls out the 14th amendment.

[nashville_brook]

4. time these "teat-suckers" shared some damn sacrifice

:sarcasm:

to the max