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Dont you realize that liberals make the same arguements for their pet programs? I agree with your pork list, but I think that anything beyond what Vets were originally promised is PORK too.

I know that the VA does a horrible job of caring for Veterans, ok? I also know that our schools do a horrible job of educating children. I dont believe that more money will fix schools, and I dont believe that more money is going to nessesarily take care of the needs of our veterans.

What is needed is a streamlining of the bureaucracy, not just shoveling money at people ill equipped to do anything productive in the first place. It is criminal, the way that we take care of our Veterans, but it is just as criminal to keep funding systems and programs that just dont work.

VA Disability payment is for injuries sustained in the performance of duty. In my case I am permantely unemployable. Many Retired Disabled Vets are.

The Retirement Pension I earned, for 20 years or more of service. It is no different then anyone who worked for IBM or General Motors and receives a pension.

I planned to get my Military Retirement after 20 years as a supliment to a salary when I got out but it didn't happen. I was never promised a retirement pension I earned it. I or anyother DAV didn't asked to be crippled/injured/wounded.

Can you see the difference. THIS ISN'T PORK!, Pork is paying $1 million of you tax dollars to study cow farts in IOWA or Nebraska or building a new highway named for Robert Byrd in West Virginia.