Bill Would Change Standards For Agent Orange Victims.

[allan]

• Bill Would Change Standards For Agent Orange Victims. Shore News Today Bob Ford, the senior vice commander of VFW Memorial Post 9462.
• http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/pleasantville/pleasantville-opinion/14190-bill-would-change-standards-for-agent-orange-victims.html

<LI> SOURCE: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/29/top-10-veterans-stories-22/

[john999]

Coburn should be boiled alive in a big vat of agent orange. I wonder how much time he spent on the ground in a combat zone? He spent his time getting rich and now he wants to take away what we have.

[FrankieG23]

Doesnt look like he spent anytime. Born in 1948, looks like he went to college instead of Vietnam. Good choice. Oh but then there wasn't much of a choice for most. I didn't see any military experience listed.

[Papa]

We can all gripe and complain on this forum, but it does no good. We need to make these politicians that even suggest things that hurt any Vet know how we feel. I sent Sen. Coburn and my two Senators an email telling them how I feel. Their will be a lot of these proposals put forward, and we need to stop them while they are only proposals. We need to stick together.

Papa

[evandc]

Not sure, but did we just go to the graveyard, open up a grave & dig up a dead horse. Since I can't get site to work for me I could be wrong, but I think this is very old news. Just asking???

[Teac]

Well... it seems to me we can do all the letter writing and bitching we want,,, but in todays day and age.. if the va keeps compensation pay at the present levels we are doing good... This debt ceiling bill that just passed congress may result in a 50% reduction in defense spending...and that may well include veteran spending too.....

Think about it concurrent receipt for all veterans is dead.. it will never happen.

Any payments under the new care provider act will not increase in scope any time soon to include veteans of other wars...

Second clothing allowances may never come to pass, because of the budget....

ILP is allready a hard program to get approval for, in the future it will get worse........

etc etc etc......

[USNDW]

I have been told over the last 2 years that the VA was cutting costs, both in medical care, and in benefits including ILP. The VAMC stopped carrying compression stockings, and now want to do the 2 year check up instead of 1 year, and trying to get a consult for a specialty like audiology takes forever.

Now, if they actually do cut spending for the VA, the Veterans are the ones who are going to foot the bill while the VA continues to build new hospitals and clinics instead of paying private treatment facilities, huge waste of money, and getting a new IT system for $14 Billion and new iphones and iPads for employees, and they are still hiring more employees. Freakin ridiculous.

The Federal Governtment hired an additional 10,000 IRS agents because they wanted to collect more revenue. How is spending 3x the amount you are taking in on their salaries making money? It is just insane out there.