Why is President Bush cutting the Veterans Affair's budget?

Question

During a time of war and many troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush should increase the VA's budget. Soldiers aren't "welfare moms".

FACTS

540 full-time jobs will be cut in the Veterans Benefits Administration, which handles disability, pension and other claims by veterans.

The VA projects that the new budget will prompt about 200,000 of the affected veterans to drop out of the system and get their health care elsewhere.

reduce the number of full-time VA nursing home beds to 37 percent below the level set in law by Congress in 1998.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24665-2004Mar2?language=printer
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Apr/10/ln/ln12p.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/261068_budget28.html

Answer 1

This is true my husband came back from Iraq with nothing, no money, no health insurance etc.. We hear stories of fellow veterans that got screwed too. It's disgusting. Democrats are the only hope for veterans. If you don't believe me, look at the voting records of our leaders. Vote Democratic on Tuesday, it's the only way to really support the troops.

I was a republican before the army experience now I see the hypocrisy and lies. Read to reports, read the voting records.

Answer 2

Don't blame Bush All he does is send the spending bills to congress & THEY say how much money is to be spent.;The Democrats are doing the same thing the Republicans did when the Democrats controled the house. They call a small increase a cut because it was not as big as they wanted. Any time you make a program a little more cost effecant they call it a cut.It is like me taking 2 departments of my company & making one. In the process I my have to move some employess to other jobs.Sometimes I have no jobs for some so people say I am down sizing. But all I am trying to do is make my company more competative. That is what they are trying to do in the VA,. Some Va hospitals have 20 to 25 beds & only 10 to 12 people in them , so why should they keep the extra beds. My brother & father both use the VA but my wifes Insurance is much better so I use it. I have a bullet in my right ankle.My brother has 4 bullet holes in him.

Answer 3

Look at your sources.
then go look at the facts.
My father got better care then I could ever pay for, During a period when all the large newspapers were screaming the same thing a few years ago.
Our troops only get forgotten and maltreated when the liberals are in control.
History proves that.

Answer 4

540 full time jobs in an administration that employs tens of thousands isn't all that bad, but to be serious, you're full of crap with this. Reread those articles.

And for anyone to come back from Iraq with no health insurance and no Veteran's benefits means the person who came back was either discharged dishonorably or other than honorably discharged (meaning they were kicked out for a crime or something). Because EVERYBODY gets those when they get back, not just a select few.

Answer 5

Crisis is already here! Here in Harrisburg, PA our local government cut the police! Now our city, the capitol of PA is open for criminals!
Idiots!

Answer 6

He's doing it so he can set yet another record, one to never be reached by another president. The record is the lowest Approval Rating in history...which BTW he has achieved.

Answer 7

I wouldn't expect anything less from an idiot. He also cut survivor benefits to the families of fallen soldiers.

Answer 8

I don't think that the Congress will permit any cuts to the VA. If this happened the Republicans will not win in 2008, I will assure you that. I'm a Republican and a Vet.

Answer 9

Maybe he's hoping they will re-enlist so they can get the benefits that they are due. Make em work for it g.w.! Plus he just doesn't care.

Answer 10

Cause he's a reptile.