LA Daily News: Bush plan threatens vets

Los Angeles Daily News

Bush plan threatens vets

Administration's proposed cuts could hit 3 long-term care homes in state


By Lisa Friedman
Washington Bureau

Sunday, March 27, 2005 - California's three long-term care homes for elderly U.S. veterans could lose $18 million under a Bush administration plan to withhold funds for nearly all disabled veterans, state officials say.

If Congress approves the change, the shortfall would hit existing facilities in Barstow, Chula Vista and Yountville, probably forcing a reduction in services. The policy also could put a budget squeeze on state veterans' long-term care facilities under development in West Los Angeles, Lancaster and the Ventura County community of Saticoy, according to critics and officials.

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Lisa Friedman, (202) 662-8731 lisa.friedman@langnews.com

Yeah, well Bush has never done anything thing for the country, so he's incapable of having any respect for those who have.

** doesn't care what happens to veterans?!

Color me shocked. :)

"History is littered with governments destabilized by masses of veterans who believed that they had been taken for fools by a society that grew rich and fat at the expense of their hardship and suffering."

Anthony J. Principi, U.S. secretary of veterans affairs, 2001



This opens the book, The Bonus Army: An American Epic, by Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen, who just had an interesting discussion of it on C-span2/BookTV.

http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,111104_BonusArmy,00.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802714404/qid=1111968498/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-6491384-5832141?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

WWI vets protesting another useless pResident's lack of compassion - Hoover.

cares about Veterans or active troops is truely delusional.

nt