The Blood of only a very few who Sacrifice, as do their families, in serving and defending. The Treasury, ignoring many issues the Veterans of have need not be paid for. Ordering the few into Wars with tax cuts that accompany the invasions, and no rubber stamped increases to the Veterans Affairs budget to cover the coming extra costs in taking care of those returning in many area's and issues, means the Country served is not only Not Sacrificing in paying for their wars but going further then just ignoring the long term issues with not even paying for what can't be ignored. The peoples responsibility to those who've served, the Veterans Administration, underfunded for decades and especially with the wars of those decades, causes the agency to stay well behind the technology advances of the country, dealing in 19th century practices and now finally moving into the 21st century while still grossly underfunded and with no sacrifice by those served nor demand too, especially in record keeping as it's many other charged responsibilities leave that well down the list of priorities and many who've been in charge of, during those decades, continue the same outdated practices even when Military personal are returning from those wars to join our Veterans community of. No demand from those served they should Sacrifice as those they hire to represent lay blame on the agency, even an agency administration trying finally to build what always should have been, and not the country served.
March 29, 2013 - The past is never dead, as William Faulkner might have written if he were analyzing the federal budget, it’s not even paid for. Did you realize that World War II still costs U.S. taxpayers $5 billion a year? Or that we haven’t closed the financial books on the Civil War yet?
snip In the 1960s, it often seemed that the Vietnam war would never end — and for government accountants, it hasn’t. They issue checks for $22 billion each year (nearly triple the annual cost of the Transportation Safety Administration) and have already paid $270 billion to vets and their families. And the Middle Eastern wars of the past two decades may prove to be the most costly of all.
Compensation to those veterans and their family members already costs $12 billion a year. Not only are they filing disability claims at what the AP calls “historic rates” — nearly half of the soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are asking for compensation — but the Veterans Administration has steadily expanded its definition of war-related ailments. Vietnam vets with diabetes and heart disease, for instance, can collect extra payments.
snip And, of course, the real bottom line is the dollars are only a marker for the incalculable physical and emotional costs of war: The boys (and, these days, girls) who don’t come home. The kids who grow up missing a parent, the parents who outlive their children. The scarred limbs and broken hearts. How do you write a check for those? Both our major parties seemed increasingly inclined to play cop in the endless, byzantine Mideast power struggles. They ought to take a look at the books first. read more>>>
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