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It's no surprise that mental disorders on the rise among returning veterans as reported yesterday in USA Today, but it should come as a terrible shock to the American people that this coincides with the continued underfunding of veterans health care and benefits. Veterans organizations have made very clear that the proposed budget will not only continue but will exascerbate the crisis in the VA system. Vietnam Veterans of America, one such organization lays it out very clearly.
The blatant hypocrisy of this administration and Congress with their cynical treatment of veterans is intolerable. We know that there is no longer a commitment of our government to ordinary working people. We know there is no concern for those who lack health care. We have long since learned they don't care about growing poverty, homelessness and hunger. In these matters they are consistent: they don't claim to care. But they do claim to "support our troops." These reports offer further evidence that they really don't care about the troops either.
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