history of Republican cuts to the VA

Post by **huddlec** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:03 pm

Flashback: supporting our troops [yeah, right - Christy]

March 28, 2003: The House of Representatives have recently voted on the 2004 budget which will cut funding for veteran's health care and
benefit programs by nearly $25 billion over the next ten years.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0328-11.htm

Friday, June 24, 2005: The Bush administration, already accused by
veterans groups of seeking inadequate funds for health care next year,
acknowledged yesterday that it is short $1 billion for covering current
needs at the Department of Veterans Affairs this year.
http://tinyurl.com/8xa2x

Wednesday, June 29, 2005: VA Faces $2.6 Billion Shortfall in Medical
Care http://tinyurl.com/bpue4

August 18, 2005: "The VA's budget hasn't kept pace with medical
inflation and rising enrollment," said Ashish Jha, assistant professor of
health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. ``If you look at Veterans Affairs funding, it's
clearly on a per-person basis lower than it is in many private-sector
settings."
http://tinyurl.com/yw9ngn

March 1, 2007: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requires, at a
minimum, $4.8 billion in additional funding in FY08 to support its
medical care operations. Our requested medical services increase is $2.845
billion over the Administration's request.
http://tinyurl.com/3du2cc

Post by **deveil** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:40 pm

the election
rummy
libby
walter reed

the pendulum is a-swingin

if by term end, they bring up impeachment charges(just make the attempt) - i'll treat the mainstays here to a dinner and night at the zoo bar, by golly! (conditions, qualifications and other weasle wording pending

Post by **deveil** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:33 pm

marco, if he had wrote:

will probably have wrote:

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

garrulous gasbag, then probaly would have wrote: hah, hah, hee, hee, slurp, hic, whah, hah, what a crock, hah, hah

and then marco, if he had wrote:

will probably have wrote: Oh Yeah?! well you're all a bunch of terrorists, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

then garrulous gasbag, probably would have wrote: hah, hah, hee, hee, slurp, hic, whah, hah, stop!, oh please stop!what a crock, hah, hah, i've Got to get back to that hampster wheel! hah, hah, hee, hee

then molotov marc, probaly would have wrote: you're BOTH frigging assholes!

then marco, probably would have wrote: oh yeah? well I'm a bigger asshole than he is! oh wait? is that what i meant?!

then everyone else probably Won't Have wrote: i wish these guys would get a life!