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-=> DAN CEPPA wrote to RICHARD HELM <=-

 -> On 03 Sep 06  14:51:00, RICHARD HELM got back to BOB KLAHN
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 BK>   And you do realize it's the Bush administration that is cutting
 BK>  back on medical care for veterans, not democrats, don't you? And
 BK>  you do realize that's at a time when more wounded vets are
 BK>  coming home, don't you?

 RH> Since 2001 veteran's benefits has increased 59 percent.  The 109th
 RH> Congress has increased medical care funding by 16%.


 DC> Summer 2003 Issue:  Finding Courage



 DC> Veterans Benefits Cut
 DC> by David Smith



 DC> The U.S.  House of Representatives approved billions of dollars in cuts
 DC> to veterans' programs over the next 10 years_on the same day it
 DC> unani-mously passed a resolution of "unequivocal support" for the
 DC> nation's troops overseas. Proposed by President Bush as part of his
 DC> 2004 budget plan, the reductions_estimated at $28 billion_would erode
 DC> health-care benefits already stretched by other budget shortfalls,
 DC> raise costs, and decrease veterans' access to medical care.

 DC> Voicing the dismay of representatives opposed to the measure, who
 DC> narrowly lost the 215-212 vote in the Republican-controlled House, Rep.
 DC>  Joseph Hoeffel (D-PA) said, "These cuts to veterans' programs are
 DC> indefensible.  We are at war and our current troops will be our future
 DC> veterans and this funding is inadequate, it's wrong, and it's an
 DC> insult."

 DC> Republican congressmen claim that Veterans Affairs spending will
 DC> actually increase, but Democratic lawmakers say that would be true only
 DC> if one ignores rising health care costs.  According to Ashley Decker,
 DC> writing in an article at Commondreams.org, the cuts could cause
 DC> approximately half of all veterans to lose their only source of medical
 DC> care and might prevent them from receiving their disability pensions.
 DC> VA hospitals treated 4.2 million veterans in 2001, and 70 million
 DC> Americans are potentially eligible for VA benefits.


Amazing what people will do to spin what this administration has done.
Reducing verterans benefits by tens of billions quietly and then adding a
couple billion
publicly to wide PR acclaim.

Reminds me of the scam they pulled with the budget deficit, radically
overestimating
the projected deficit so they could claim we saved money when worst
case projections were not met. 
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