Repub proposed 22% budget cut to VA

[hawkeyez]

Since the war began, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research institute.

How Much Aid Has the U.S. Sent Ukraine? Here Are Six Charts.

Six charts illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.

www.cfr.org

Proxy wars are expensive. How much has Russia spent so far?

 

[IowaPackFan]

Proxy wars are expensive. How much has Russia spent so far?

Well they’re using a lot of free prison labor, so I’ll go with ₽6 trillion rubles.

 

[runkpanole]

Has nothing to do with not helping and everything to do with how inefficient the VA and the VA framework is.
Medicare budget is almost twice that of the VA at $680B, but it covers over 11x as many people. Medicare on average is about $10k/member. VA is about $55K/member.
They operate their own facilities that aren't nearly as efficient as private sector. And they are offering services to vets that have nothing to do with things derived from service or even health for that matter— loans, burial unrelated to service, nursing homes, etc.

Tell me you know nothing about insurance without telling me you know nothing about insurance. Vets are likely higher utilizers, therefore costing more to provide healthcare for.

Also, are you suggesting we should cut other veterans benefits that were agreed upon when those vets entered service?

 

[bunsen82]

Times are tough. No group is exempt from budget cuts.

Please please put Social Security on the table for those already receiving benefits LOL

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Tell me you know nothing about insurance without telling me you know nothing about insurance. Vets are likely higher utilizers, therefore costing more to provide healthcare for.

Also, are you suggesting we should cut other veterans benefits that were agreed upon when those vets entered service?

As usual, the truth is in the middle. Vets use more care and VA's are incredibly inefficient.

 

[fsu1jreed]

If that's where you want to divert 22% to. Life is full of decisions.

I prefer Europe finance the war and for us to fund our veterans.

Id prefer to take it from Trumps tax cuts

 

[mnole03]

Reminder how we got here:
Priority Group 1 is service related,

 

[B1GDeal]

As usual, the truth is in the middle. Vets use more care and VA's are incredibly inefficient.

I'm curious what you think is inefficient at the VA and efficient outside the VA.

 

[runkpanole]

As usual, the truth is in the middle. Vets use more care and VA's are incredibly inefficient.

Is the 22% cut going to make the facilities more efficient?

 

[fsu1jreed]

Is the 22% cut going to make the facilities more efficient?

Of course.....MAGA logic says so to the idiots

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

Please please put Social Security on the table for those already receiving benefits LOL

So don't give them their own money?

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[runkpanole]

 

[fsu1jreed]

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Yea they can....when they are pieces of shit humans and at this point I'm starting to think that anyone who voted for a republican, ESPECIALLY A MAGA, has a good probability of of one

 

[Chewback]

See, that bottom number is what happens when you send a couple of million young people into combat zones where they get broken mentally and physically. If we're going to decide to do that, the paying for it on the other end comes with it. And that number will continue to get bigger as those young people become not young anymore.

Methinks you had no issue with paying for the thing that caused all those people to get broken. So, not wanting to pay to fix them makes one a piece of s***.


Funny, Republicans support the troops...until they're no longer useful, then they s*** on them. Kind of like I've been saying for years.

Yup, use 'em and throw 'em away. Pretty useless once they're too busted up to send to war.

Guess I had it pretty good in the service. Never in a place where I got shot at. When I got my honorable discharge I figure I was Paid in Full. Lotta guys didn't have it quite that good.

{edit} I did use a fair bit of GI bill for education so I was actually paid a little more.

 

[mnole03]

Yup, use 'em and throw 'em away. Pretty useless once they're too busted up to send to war.

Guess I had it pretty good in the service. Never in a place where I got shot at. When I got my honorable discharge I figure I was Paid in Full. Lotta guys didn't have it quite that good.

{edit} I did use a fair bit of GI bill for education so I was actually paid a little more.

GI Bill is just deferred compensation. You were owed anything you were promised when you signed. We’re not Russians, we pay our servicemen what they’re owed.

 

[Tom Paris]

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What’s it going to take for their base, @NorthernHawkeye to realize how shitty the people they vote for are? The Republican Party is full of dogshit.

 

[Chishawk1425]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

I will go to every one of Iowa's Congressman's town hall meetings and shame them.

GOP has f'd vets time after time. They should be ashamed

 

[Chishawk1425]

I will go to every one of Iowa's Congressman's town hall meetings and shame them.

GOP has f'd vets time after time. They should be ashamed

See my thread about their bill to handcuff the state auditor.

 

[Chewback]

GI Bill is just deferred compensation. You were owed anything you were promised when you signed. We’re not Russians, we pay our servicemen what they’re owed.

Yeah well, Republicans have decided we're not going to do that anymore. Tough shit.

 

[Huey Grey]

You have to be kidding. Some of you libs are like petulant children.

Households across America are struggling in many ways and it's only going to get worse.

This country is heading for a financial cliff.

Tough decisions await. You can't just keep printing money.

GOP plan will only make this worse. It guts working class programs to protect billionaire tax cheats.