Funds for Health Care of Veterans $1 Billion Short

[dogday]

Now Tell Me Again, Who Supports The Troops?

2005 Deficit Angers Senate Republicans, Advocacy Groups

By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 24, 2005; Page A29

The Bush administration, already accused by veterans groups of seeking inadequate funds for health care next year, acknowledged yesterday that it is short $1 billion for covering current needs at the Department of Veterans Affairs this year.

The disclosure of the shortfall angered Senate Republicans who have been voting down Democratic proposals to boost VA programs at significant political cost. Their votes have brought the wrath of the American Legion, the Paralyzed Veterans of America and other organizations down on the GOP.

Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho), head of the Veterans Affairs Committee, says at a briefing: "I was on the phone . . . with Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson, letting him know that I am not pleased" about a $1 billion shortfall in VA funds for health care. To his left are Democratic Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV, Patty Murray and Ken Salazar. (By Yuri Gripas -- Associated Press)


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301888.html

[ailsagirl]

1. I heard about this-- another outrage. How many more to come??

They must have a list a mile long by now...
:puke:

[havocmom]

2. But, what was it? 8 or 9 BILLION just sorta unaccounted for in Iraq

There are no words for my rage a the mother fucking thugs doing all this shit then complaining about DEMS not supporting the troops. Hope all Halliburton board members and CEOs (past & present) rot and decay before our eyes. Their bodies should match their cursed souls.

May they spend the rest of their days begging for coins on street corners and be spit and pissed on by every one who sees them...

[barb162]

3. who cares, the corporations and rich people

got their big tax cuts and that's all that matters. Son what if the government has no money for this and other incredibly important benefit programs