Only a generation?
Better rethink that and better understand the 'government' are the people and Especially, where you are right, this past decade Nobody Has Paid A Dime For Not Only The Wars But The Results Of! That decade is added to the previous decades of underfunding the VA while cheering on wars of choice!! This time the surplus was gone and deficits rising on the rubber stamping Before 9/11, off the books till the present administration and Still All Borrowed!!!!!
09/27/2012 - Senate Republicans blocked a bill Wednesday that would have provided a billion dollars towards helping veterans find work. The reason? They cited the fact that the bill did not adhere to spending limits Congress had set in place last year. Democrats needed 60 votes to overturn this argument, according to the Associated Press, but were only able to get 58, losing the resolution by 2 votes.
With current unemployment rates at nearly 11 percent among veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many say that it is time Washington step up to do more. HuffPost Live's Alicia Menendez discusses this issue asking why certain senators decided to block this bill.
"It shouldn't be surprising that Washington can't get anything done..." Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director and Founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) told HuffPost Live. "When it came down to it, this critical jobs bill would have provided much needed support for not just the 10.9 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who are unemployed, but really all veterans. The bottom line here is this bill died..." read more>>>
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