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In reply to the discussion: GOP Senator Calls Veteran’s Care ‘Entitlement’ We ‘Can’t Afford’ [View all]Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)3. Healthcare
WHY are taxpayers still supplementing the healthcare for these do-nothings in DC? Let them pay for their own care, that is an "entitlement" they could afford for themselves. Take it away, add the savings to the Veteran's healthcare instead. Given a choice, who would choose to pay for the politicians care over a vet? Imagine how much it has cost for Dickless Cheney's care all these years, and he is a billionaire. Little Johnny McCain also.
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What we can't afford is to have a congress full of hypocrites like this one.
liberal N proud
Jun 2014
#1
1%'ers would rather Vets die on enemy soil, than return home and need a Gov't service for anything.
blkmusclmachine
Jun 2014
#4
A country that does not take care of its veterans should not make any more veterans.
unhappycamper
Jun 2014
#7
You start talking about the "wars we can't afford", Sessions, and maybe I'll listen to you.
tanyev
Jun 2014
#12
At the same time, other Republicans say we have to send ground troops to Iraq
Sanity Claws
Jun 2014
#28
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is the most vile member of the Senate
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Jun 2014
#33
"But I don’t think we should create a blank check, an unlimited entitlement program"
Veilex
Jun 2014
#54
They won't be. After all, they'll say, at least he's not a freakin'
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jun 2014
#62