The present Veterans Administration is the most pro-active one in my lifetime, lets keep it that way, as it always should have been! The Countries Responsibility is to Fully Fund!

“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Rachel Maddow: Obama indicates beginning of end of war on terror "We got a huge round of tax cuts in this country a few weeks before9/11. Once 9/11 happened and we invaded Afghanistan, we kept the tax cuts anyway.
How did we think we were going to pay for that war? Did we think it was free?
Then, when we started a second simultaneous war in another country, we gave ourselves a second huge round of tax cuts. After that second war started. The wars, I guess, we thought would be free, don`t worry about it, civilians. Go about your business."
23 May 2013

How We Could Do More For Our Vets: "We need to go into debt to pay our debt to U.S. veterans to make sure they get the care and services we owe them."

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!

Prior too this present Executive and Veterans Administrations and just touching on the problems:

Army Times Oct. 16, 2008 - VA claims found in piles to be shredded

CNN iReport October 25, 2008 - House Vets' Committee To Probe VA Shredder Scandal

Tampa Bay Times Oct 27, 2008 - Hundreds of VA documents improperly shredded, review finds {Tampa Bay Times search page and series of articles}

CBS News February 11, 2009 - Veterans' Claims Found in Shredder Bins

And more disturbing in relation to even before and through the early years of the Afghanistan, quickly abandoned missions of, and Iraq occupations, this:

ProPublica and The Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2012 - Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
"DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War."

Add in the issues of finally recognizing in War Theater and more Veterans, by this Veterans Administration and the Executive Administrations Cabinet, what the Country choose to ignore from our previous decades and wars of: The devastating effects on Test Vets and from PTS, Agent Orange, Homelessness, more recent the Desert Storm troops Gulf War Illnesses, Gulf War Exposures with the very recent affects from In-Theater Burn Pits and oh so so much more! Tens of Thousands of Veterans' that have been long ignored and maligned by previous VA's and the whole Country and through their representatives!


America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people" - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!

These present wars have yet to be paid for, rubber stamping and rapid deficits rising started before 9/11 and continued with same for the wars. But especially in the early some six years of extremely little was added to the Veterans Administration budgets by those Congresses, and since obstructed by same war rubber stampers, as to the long term results of War, DeJa-Vu all over again. Keeping the VA under budgeted causes problems and of many grow worse, which costs more to correct much more, which is the goal of those seeking to privatize Government Agencies as they attack the people of and which was created by their own incompetence and ideologies, but doing those served will!

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan" - President Lincoln




Are You Concerned About a Veteran? The Veterans Crisis Line Can Help>>>

For our sisters: National Women Veterans Hotline, call 1-855-VA-WOMEN (1-855-829-6636) New Hotline now up and running

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Monday, February 11, 2013

War Tax Mention Ten Plus Years Later?

Tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, instead while oil prices rose rapidly and the country told to go shopping!

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American."

For any country, 'Freedom is Absolutely Free', for all the citizens served, and war tax resistance actions are fruitless. As shown for these times and two more long destructive and bloody occupations of others. As the country just puts war and no bid private war contract costs on the easy credit card to be paid by the coming generations, if even then. As the peoples responsibility the Veterans Administration stays grossly under funded during the occupation wars and long after, while some seek to privatize for profit and the underfunding gives them reasons to attack the agency while over funding the defense budgets with no worry as to corruption within the private sector defense industry. As war profiteering makes the wealthy much much wealthier.

A decade plus, still counting, two long occupation theaters, abandoning with almost full support the main missions and countries promises to the people invaded of why the military was sent into the region with the drums beating towards another invasion, and the long term results of, to the Veterans Administration, adding to previous decades and wars from, have yet been paid for!

Deficits started rising with the rubber stamping Before 9/11!

Costs, still in blood in Afghanistan, in treasury still added daily including for the huge embassy in Iraq for the State Department with private merc. security guards, alone!

A Tax to Pay for War
February 10, 2013 - With leading officials calling for action in Syria, and the American military providing support for France’s intervention in Mali, the need for such a tax is urgent. And President Obama’s call for tax reform as the next round of budget negotiations begins offers a perfect opportunity to enact it.

No mention of the long occupation theaters, one officially over and the main missions of and reasons the military were sent into that region long ago abandoned and winding down as those still sent try and accomplish at least a small fraction of those missions and the countries promises to it's people, damage already done as to the standing of the country on the world stage as the expansion to many area's of the criminal international terrorism continues.

Oh wait one is mentioned, not totally forgotten I guess:

Today’s budget negotiations offer a similar opportunity to make a surcharge permanent. President Obama called for counting as savings the money that will not be spent as the war in Afghanistan winds down. Many decried the scheme as playing with funny money because he plans to exit Afghanistan in 2014 anyway; the savings only exist because of an accounting trick in Congressional budgeting. But if those savings were associated with an actual policy change, they would start looking more real. read more>>>

But totally forgotten within the branches of government where revenue legislation are formed, argued and voted on. As well as in the country also, especially by those leading the charges for war and rubber stamping costs of, it never happened apparently as even the media doesn't report same when the rubber stampers then started obstructing everything, while maintaining the grossly wealthy, who reaped the war profits and need the infrastructure to exist, them 'job creators', need even more tax cuts and nobody in the country is demanding they finally Sacrifice as those sent into and their families have.


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