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Veterans

merrily

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1. $10 billion in emergency funding alone. Just a drop in the buck of the high cost of war.

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2014, 04:52 AM

Jul 2014

At least when it was called the War Department, we were a bit more honest.

I don't begrudge veterans a penny (assuming the money/benefits of spending actually gets to them). However, I wonder if anyone has even tried to calculate how much, all in, we actually spend on "defense," both at home and abroad. So much is stashed away in the budgets of so many different Departments. Trying to make fewer enemies would probably be a lot cheaper.

I also wonder how much of the "solution" to the VA is going to be privatization. It's been fairly clear that is the route they are going in the short term and it is probably necessary, as are some additional firings. For one thing, I doubt Shinseki falsified any scheduling info.

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Deal struck on VA reform bill [View all] nitpicker Jul 2014 OP

$10 billion in emergency funding alone. Just a drop in the buck of the high cost of war. merrily Jul 2014 #1

$10 billion is a start. unhappycamper Jul 2014 #2

In my post, I made the point that the money is buried in the budgets of more merrily Jul 2014 #3