Monday, May 28, 2012

Human cost

Given the estimates in this article, $1T for veteran's benefits for the recent wars is probably not a reach.

Maybe it is not such a bad idea to skim $50B off of the defense budget each year and put it into the VA budget. As a solution, it will be less fiscal pain than just hoping the problem will go away and/or kick the can down the road to a future generation of tax payers.

"You just can't keep sending people into war five, six or seven times and expect that they're going to come home just fine."

Welcome home.

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