Veterans face consecutive budget cuts

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Veterans face consecutive budget cuts

 

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration plans to cut funding for veterans' health care two years from now — even as badly wounded troops returning from Iraq could overwhelm the system. Bush is using the cuts, critics say, to help fulfill his pledge to balance the budget by 2012.

 

After an increase sought for next year, the Bush budget would turn current trends on their head. Even though the cost of providing medical care to veterans has been growing rapidly — by more than 10 percent in many years — White House budget documents assume consecutive cutbacks in 2009 and 2010 and a freeze thereafter.

 

The proposed cuts are unrealistic in light of recent VA budget trends — its medical care budget has risen every year for two decades and 83 percent in the six years since Bush took office — sowing suspicion that the White House is simply making them up to make its long-term deficit figures look better.

 

"Either the administration is willingly proposing massive cuts in VA health care," said Rep. Chet Edwards (news, bio, voting record) of Texas, chairman of the panel overseeing the VA's budget. "Or its promise of a balanced budget by 2012 is based on completely unrealistic assumptions."

 

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sounds to me like this andrew taylor character has it in for prez Bush and used his own fuzzy math to

besmirch the new budget. what's next? they can't feed their kids on 39 billion per year?

disgraceful

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GH , you're fockin hilarious.

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GH , you're fockin hilarious.

 

 

if bushco parrots crack u up....he is

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The budget has increased 83 percent since he has been in office (funny, I remember during the last campaign some were complaining about cuts...and they were explained that they were cuts in the increase in funding, not actual cuts).

 

This appears to be a cut...a 2% cut one year, frozen for 3 years after that.

 

And its a proposal that will probably never happen.

 

But to say "way to support the troops"? 83% increase in 6 years kind of looks like they have supported them in this manner.

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The budget has increased 83 percent since he has been in office (funny, I remember during the last campaign some were complaining about cuts...and they were explained that they were cuts in the increase in funding, not actual cuts).

 

This appears to be a cut...a 2% cut one year, frozen for 3 years after that.

 

And its a proposal that will probably never happen.

 

But to say "way to support the troops"? 83% increase in 6 years kind of looks like they have supported them in this manner.

 

whooaaa. this isn't the time nor place for logic.