Veterans Thrown Under The Bus By Super Committee

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

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unhappycamper summary of this article: So much for that "keeping faith with our veterans" bullshit.









Veterans committee leaders all open to VA cuts
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Oct 17, 2011 12:55:10 EDT

The top leaders of the House and Senate veterans’ affairs committees are willing to cut funding for the Veterans Affairs Department in hopes of averting across-the-board cuts in federal spending.

[democrank]

1. Brilliant!

What smart thinkers.If they keep this up....some $ from the veterans, some $ from Head Start, some $ from food stamps, some $ from Medicaid, they`ll have enough for some more congressional raises and a dozen new bronze statues in their honor.

[MADem]

2. The Pentagon does not own the MILITARY TIMES franchise. It is a private publication

printed in Springfield VA. The US government or US military has NOTHING to do with the operation of that publication. In fact, back before 911 changed everything, you'd see their reporters all over the Pentagon, and leadership would close their doors when they saw 'em cruising down the passageways.

They'd try to read shit upside-down on your desk, too--real Jimmy Olsens!

Tell them to shove it, and do the "fair use" thing--annotating it with a link if need be.

[MADem]

3. Here, let 'em come after me--or try to:

No specific cuts were recommended by the four lawmakers, but they attached a list of all of the reductions made in veterans’ benefits since 1980 as part of other deficit reduction packages and a separate one-page list of ongoing initiatives to reduce expenses.

Past budget-cutting efforts have included modest increases in copayments for veterans receiving treatment and prescription drugs for health problems not directly related to military service; making veterans wait until the first day of the following month after approval of benefits claims for payments to begin; raising fees for using the veterans’ home loan guarantee program; and verifying income through the Internal Revenue Service for veterans or survivors receiving pensions for low-income people.

“In past times of fiscal restraint, thoughtful and measured areas of budgetary savings found within veterans’ programs have advanced on a bipartisan basis,” the joint letter says. “We recommend that the select committee refer to these lists when making the difficult decisions ahead.”



This is a fair use snippet to get a gist of what the article is discussing, Ricky, and if he doesn't like it, he can lump it. No one's making a damn dime here in discussing your precious little article! Hell, you got the info from congressional sources yourself, paid by the taxpayers.

Jesus, Rick Maze has been around since the Reagan era...I'd have thought he'd be looking at retirement by now.

[xchrom]

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