Bill O'Reilly, You're Wrong Again.....
By Gary Ater
January 29, 2008
Bill O'Reilly, Blowing Smoke on the "O'Reilly Factor"
It drives me crazy when Bill O makes the statement on his show that his organization does "extensive research" to support the comments made on his daily "O'Reilly Factor" cable TV show. In his program last week, after taking back his comment that "there aren't that many homeless vets out there anyway", he agreed he had learned that there were over 200,000 homeless US vets. But then he added "that it was well known, most of the homeless vets are drug addicts or are mentally ill". Well Bill, you blew it again.
Now, let's do some real investigative work and find out what the real information is on the homeless vets that have been fighting for the freedom of all Americans.
VA FUNDING:
First, let's look at the funding for the US Veterans Administration (VA) that support all US vets. The VA is not an on-going, funded entitlement program like Social Security or Medicare that automatically receives increases as inflation and the cost of living increase. Instead, the VA must approach the Congress and the Administration on an annual basis and submit a budget request which usually gets cut before it is approved for funding. To put the VA's 2008 Budget into perspective, let's compare the 2008 Budget to the overall costs of the War in Iraq (to date) and to the War on Terror.
2008 Veterans Administration Budget: $36.6 Billion
Cost of "Iraqi Freedom" to date: $360.7 Billion
Afghanistan & War on Terror cost to date: $82.3 Billion
Enhanced Security @ US Military Bases $27.6 Billion
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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/50565
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