A Slap In The Face Of Veterans

I’m speechless. 

CNN reports that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering making veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.  It isn’t enough that they are going to tax anyone with any money left at all right out of business, but now they’re thinking they will make some money via “third-party collections” for services to our veterans, as estimated in the 2010 budget proposal.

Hotair had this to say about it:

“And people used to complain that Bush didn’t care enough about veteran care – even though he increased the VA budget by 56% from 2001 to 2008.  Bush never offered the notion that the nation should shirk its duty to those who gave their health for the defense of America, especially not in the same week in which his administration signed a record omnibus bill with 8,000 pork items in it.  In fact, I don’t think any administration has ever signaled such a policy, mostly because previous administrations weren’t dumb enough to try it, let alone crass enough to consider it an area to save a little cash.”

How dare they?  And Shineski, of all people?  A retired U.S. Army General who served (and was wounded himself) in Vietnam.  He is a traitor to all of those who gave their lives under his command while in service of this country, and to those who continue to lay their lives on the line for us every day.  And our nation’s commander-in-chief is no better for allowing such a thing to even be considered.