Does the word troops=Halliburton to Bush and that's why veterans benefits get cut? Who is he really supporting

Answer 1

excuse me?

you are wrong!

http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=1288


Continuing to honor the nation’s commitment to meet the needs of America’s veterans, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson announced on Feb. 5 that President Bush will seek a landmark budget of nearly $87 billion in fiscal year 2008 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, with health care and disability compensation for veterans receiving the majority of the spending.

READ THIS NEXT PART CLOSELY!!!!!

The budget proposal represents an increase of $37.8 billion, or 77 percent, from the budget in effect when the President took office.

The proposal calls for $42 billion in discretionary funding – mostly for health care – which is the largest amount ever requested by a president. It also would provide $45 billion in mandatory funding, mostly for compensation, pension, educational assistance, home loan guaranties and other benefit programs

Answer 2

Good question I keep hearing from the small town press about how vets who lost limbs can't get the state of the art replacements and when their measurements change and they need new ones they are out of luck. We had a vet who was a double amputee and needed a ramp to get home, but the community had to build one for him, the army wanted to leave him in the hospital. Although its open season on Hillary, she was the one who went to bat to get back pay for vets when the military didn't want to hear about it.
But, Halliburton, now, that is a different story, there are literally billions of our dollars missing and its reported only in passing, like its OK for it to be gone and oh, yeah, we will have to look into it. Whats wrong with the people who get all bent out of shape if we feed the poor or God forbid give health care to the needy but can overlook the greedy stealing of billions by corporations?

Answer 3

My benefits have never been cut as long as PRESIDENT Bush has been President.
US ARMY(RET) 21 Years!!!!!!!!President Bush
is supporting the troops and that is a FACT!!!!!!!!!!!BTW, I just got a raise on all of my benefits!!!!

Answer 4

Stop using friends as a source for news. Look it up yourself, the facts are there. Just be sure to use multiple sources and not just the L.A. Times or any other 'Liberals R Us' news group. The ones with direct quotes from poeple who would actually know are best.

Answer 5

Haliburton has been at the core of Billions of dollars that have simply "disapeared" or been misused at a time when scores of the nation's wounded military personel have been left to "fend for themselves" for lack of proper funding within the followup, extended care programs designed for such matters !!

The recent funding programs that Chumpchange is speaking of in an earlier post here on this page---- is a very recent move by the current administration to cover themselves on this issue that has been an ongoing and consistant problem ever since we initially went into Iraq AND was done at this time FOR three distinct reasons----------First was-- with the new agenda focusing on Iran--- the administration knows that it is going to have to call for a whole lot more military personnel--- they have been having major problems filling that billet as it is and with the multiplied problems within the system of veterans' care being brought more and more into public attention---they knew they were going to Have to do Something in order to quell the malay over the issue before it became a problem of slowing down the induction of even more individuals into the military !! Secondly--- the issue OF the Haliburton scandles had brought an enormous amount of pressure on the administration for the very thing that I had mentioned at beginnings----the total lack of any supervision of these people--- no bid contracts to the tune of Multiplied Billions and most of that totally without any accountability in force at all !! Then, the FACT that pressure from a newly elected Democratic majority was the final straw in the funding moves--- the core of which was spearheaded BY Democrats and was measures that they had been attempting to get through Congress for months on end--- only to have it BLOCKED by the very Republicans that are NOW taking CREDIT for the measure !!! And, they will need every bit of this new funding for the wave of injured and disabled vets that will be coming out of IRAN before its all said and done !!!

In closing here, your question---who is he really supporting ?----big business---the globalists---his party agenda--- personal relations within the "inside" deals--and his own private view of his place within the "end game" !!

Answer 6

The Military Industrial Complex does not want to increase benefits, as it cuts into their profits or moneythat could be spent on them, as a veteran I am continually dissolutioned with the cuts in services, the amount of incompetent people in the VA admistrative process and the red tape that has a back log of 400,000 claims!

Answer 7

Wow, you're a gadget. KILMEADE: yet enable's get this on the instant. in case you fairly decide to be a tea partier, you will decrease veterans advantages, you will decrease unemployment advantages, you will decrease Social protection, and you will decrease Medicare. DOOCY: extraordinary. He needed specifics. "Tea party human beings, what do you opt to diminish?" Kilmeade's assertion ought to have been in fees, he grow to be saying that it relatively is what Obama mentioned. it relatively is why Doocy mentioned what he mentioned. next time, study somewhat greater, I hate examining mediamatters crap internet site.

Answer 8

Bush thinks he's supporting the troops, but Dick Cheney is really just getting him to send extra troops so Halliburton can be contracted to support them. So, under the guise of "supporting the troops", Halliburton and KBR are just lining their pockets with our tax dollars.

Answer 9

He supports the troops by keeping them at the job till its done because thats whats good for morale. Coming home to their families would make them feel like failures and knowing we just want them to come home is breaking their will to fight. All the arguing in congress about should we stay or go is breaking their morale. In my guts tho I think what is breaking their morale is the fact that theres such a big contingent that wants them to stay there indefinitely!!

Answer 10

I agree that Cheney is a puppetmaster, but who are his puppetmasters? War profiteers, that's who - Halliburton, CACI, KBR, etc. Bush is supporting BUSINESS by providing war profiteering opportunities for them. Just like he supports oil companies by keeping the Middle East unstable.