Newsweek Article-returning Vets & Claims Backlog

[Guest jangrin]

New Article-

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17316437/site/newsweek/

[Pete53]

Is the Department of Veteran Affairs doing everything it can for wounded American soldiers?

89% of over 39000 votes said no on MSNBC Poll.

Thanks for the article

[marinejay]

Just read the article, and it made me so angry at how the government is treating its vets. I got so angry that i started to cry. I just thought that, the persons being talked about could have been me. It just sickens me at how the wounded vets are being treated. They are the ones that need the help the most but are being turned away.

This will do alot of damage to the all volunteer military. It may not show now, but in the coming years, the military will have a very hard time recruiting individuals in its ranks. I have already started to deter some of my nephew's friends. I did my best to deter about 10 of them away form joining the military. I dont want to see them go through the same things that my fellow buddies are dealing with.

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marinejay

[jlshand]

This is the sorriest state of affairs imaginable!!! How shortsighted can an administration possibly be!!!!! It curdles the brain to think that intelligent people would believe they could manipulate dollars to the detraction of care for the one group they must depend upon utterly to meet their objectives!! The military, Vets and prospective enlistees!!! Do they think in their hubris that word would not get out????

The only possible ,rational alternative is that the press is exaggerating . This is too hard to buy into at least for this VET

It's very hard these days to maintain a belief congruent with this administration's security aims as they screw up the obvious time and time again!

Lets stop so many tax favors for their rich buddies and start paying for the legitimate costs of natioanl security policies.

Cut the pork projects! Hit the oil companies for windfall profits! Dump the tax cuts that benefited primarily the wealthy! Reintroduce competitive contract bidding for projects in IRAQ! Stop midnight congressional pay raises!! reinstitute the estate tax! raise the ceiling on social security taxable income so that the wealthy pay a percentage just a bit closer to the rest of us

Identify and kick out those representatives who consistently vote against Vet issues!!!

OH, and while we are at, lets tax the registered lobbyiest of whom their are more that two thousand in DC alone, so that every dollar they"give" our reps provides 50% to lower the deficit

Edited February 28, 2007 by jlshand