GW Bush is power drunk. We attack a 3rd world country using a trillion dollars of arsenal, open up agencies that the federal gov't can not even fund. The guy is proposing to cut the Vets benefits
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Cutting already underfunded veterans' programs to offset the costs of tax cuts is indefensible and callous," said Edward R. Heath, national commander of the Disabled American Veterans. "It is unconscionable to cut benefits and services for disabled veterans at a time when we have thousands of our service members in harm's way."
The Republican plan, which the House Budget Committee adopted last week on a party-line vote, would chop $467 billion - 1 percent - from mandatory spending programs including the Veterans Affairs Department, Medicare and Medicaid in the next 10 years to offset $1.5 trillion in tax cuts the president proposes in the same period...
The VA cuts would take place in disability compensation, education benefits, pensions and health care, according to veterans advocacy groups...
