Bachmann and Veterans Benefits

She's not the only one, especially in the past couple of decades, any who fly under the once banner of (R), which stopped existing a couple of decades ago, only talks or supports anything related to Veterans or even Military personal and their families when the need to wrap themselves in the flag and speak their hollow patriotic phrases. It was extremely clear as they rubber stamped these two wars and had total control in Washington but also stays very clear when during most of their time in they speak nor do much on these issues until an election cycle is coming into focus, and many only if they have large populations of Veterans and or Military Bases!

Bachmann was against veterans benefits before she was for them

09.02.11 - During U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s speech at the annual convention of the American Legion in Minneapolis Thursday, she vowed to support and strengthen veterans medical care, but a plan unveiled by Bachmann in January, which she later dropped, proposed to cut $4.5 billion from these same veterans services.

“It is our duty, first and primarily, to protect our veterans and to make sure that you receive not only the respect, but also the care that you have paid for very heavily with your service to our nation,” Bachmann told members of the American Legion Thursday. “As president, I will assure that those who serve today as well, and in the past, have the highest access to the best care, both of health, mental health and rehabilitative care that the world has to offer.”

But Bachmann’s January plan, which was touted as a way to avoid raising the debt ceiling, would have brought about dramatic cuts to veterans services.

“Instead of making it easier for Washington to spend more of your tax dollars, I’m calling for Congress to do the hard work of making real and necessary cuts in federal spending,” according to a January statement that included the cuts on Bachmann’s House website.

Her plan would have frozen U.S. Department of Veterans Administration health care costs and cut disability payments, according to a January report in the Army Times. Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, told the Times that Bachmann’s proposal was “astonishing.” The Army Times charted the origin of the veterans cuts to an October 2010 report from the conservative Heritage Foundation.

It was just the next month that Bachmann started to backpedal in a statement on her website: read more>>>

No Revenues = Still No Sacrifice = That's Called That 'Support' For The Troops!!
Now a decade plus, added to the previous decades since Korea, especially ours Vietnam!!
Already known through decades of our brothers and sisters living those false patriotic? meme's and cheap phony symbols of including their 'purple heart bandages'!