Bush's VA budget waiting for them to die

For veterans, the 2009 budget provides $47 billion in funding for veterans’ health care, benefits, and other services.

The President’s FY 2009 Budget By the Numbers

By IAVA Staff

However, starting in 2010, the budget predicts sudden (and unrealistic) drops in costs for veterans’ care. The administration’s argument is that the deaths of earlier generations of veterans will reduce expenses, but this line of........

click above for the rest. So in other words, he's waiting for them to die. If Bush thinks that there will be that many more dying so that the new generation of veterans will not over take their places, he is dead wrong. Isn't he taking into consideration the backlog of claims 650,000 deep will actually turn out to be veterans who do end up having their VA claims approved? Isn't he taking into consideration the hundreds of thousands who have their claims tied up on appeal or not even filed yet will also add to the numbers of the veterans needing care?

While Bush is waiting for the older veterans to die, he is failing on seeing the need of those who survive the two military operations he began and refused to fund.

Bush does seem interested in factoring in the figures of the PTSD veterans who will not show signs of PTSD for a couple more years and then will need to seek help, which is exactly what happened after Vietnam. Other health issues linked to depleted uranium will need to be addressed as well as birth defects in their children. Again, exactly what happened after Vietnam with Agent Orange. None of the needs foreseen by experts for ten years out are being factored in on any of this and it is deplorable that while he has yet to include Iraq or Afghanistan operating expenses in any of his budgets other than emergency supplemental demands, he does not take anything having to do with those who serve in any order of importance. The tax cuts he wants usually come first and he insists on making them permanent while refusing to make any of the necessary long range plans for the troops or their families.