Thanks for taking time to read the bills and sort out the truth David. Just might be one of the worst exercises in futility there is, reading/comparing bills. No surprises on what the real reason is/was. Being angry over a different bill more than justifies sticking it to veterans. Not.
If there is a more scummy politician out there than Ted Cruz, feel free to point him/her out. When i wrote that, i spit out my coffee all over my keyboard. Damn, there's any number of them. This country, as great as it is, could be so much more. Stopping the games and accepting their job of governing rather than kicking the other sides ass has to stop. Now.
Veterans deserve relief from service-related illnesses and injuries. No argument. Liars should be called out if that turns out to be the case. A question not asked is how much spending is appropriate? $400,000,000,000 is a lot of money. How many patients are there?
The best information I could find is that there are about 610,000 surviving veterans who were deployed to Vietnam and about 600,000 veterans who were deployed to the mid-east. According to this story, https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2021/30-years-after-gulf-war-veterans-still-battle-health-issues-caused-by-toxic-wounds/, about one-third of the Gulf Wars vets are suffering from various chronic illnesses. Assuming Vietnam deployed vets are similarly affected, there are about 450,000 patients. The spending proposed is over $800,000 per patient.
Even if that level of spending is appropriate, what will the shysters do to run the total up? Every day I see ads on TV drumming up business to make claims against the government for illness caused by impure water at Camp Lejune during the 1960s. I'm 82 years old and spent two days in 1966 at Camp Lejune testing NATO radios for reflective interference over water. Should I be claiming damages for ulcerative colitis or bladder cancer or whatever similar illness that are not unusual in older people.
Thanks for taking time to read the bills and sort out the truth David. Just might be one of the worst exercises in futility there is, reading/comparing bills. No surprises on what the real reason is/was. Being angry over a different bill more than justifies sticking it to veterans. Not.
If there is a more scummy politician out there than Ted Cruz, feel free to point him/her out. When i wrote that, i spit out my coffee all over my keyboard. Damn, there's any number of them. This country, as great as it is, could be so much more. Stopping the games and accepting their job of governing rather than kicking the other sides ass has to stop. Now.
Veterans deserve relief from service-related illnesses and injuries. No argument. Liars should be called out if that turns out to be the case. A question not asked is how much spending is appropriate? $400,000,000,000 is a lot of money. How many patients are there?
The best information I could find is that there are about 610,000 surviving veterans who were deployed to Vietnam and about 600,000 veterans who were deployed to the mid-east. According to this story, https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2021/30-years-after-gulf-war-veterans-still-battle-health-issues-caused-by-toxic-wounds/, about one-third of the Gulf Wars vets are suffering from various chronic illnesses. Assuming Vietnam deployed vets are similarly affected, there are about 450,000 patients. The spending proposed is over $800,000 per patient.
Even if that level of spending is appropriate, what will the shysters do to run the total up? Every day I see ads on TV drumming up business to make claims against the government for illness caused by impure water at Camp Lejune during the 1960s. I'm 82 years old and spent two days in 1966 at Camp Lejune testing NATO radios for reflective interference over water. Should I be claiming damages for ulcerative colitis or bladder cancer or whatever similar illness that are not unusual in older people.