{"id":19707,"date":"2010-07-12T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19707"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:12:51","slug":"dickmith-bushs-shameful-treatment-of-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19707","title":{"rendered":"dickmith: Bush’s shameful treatment of veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’ve been trolling at VetsVoice <\/a>again. dicksmith is peeing himself with excitement that the Obama Administration has made it easier for veterans to qualify for treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.<\/p>\n

The government is making it easier for combat veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder to receive disability benefits.<\/p>\n

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to announce Monday it will no longer require veterans to prove what might have triggered their illness. Instead, they would have to show that they served in combat in a job that could have contributed to post-traumatic stress disorder. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is good news – real PTSD cases will get treated while the IVAW members who claim they got PTSD from the pizza guys at 8th and Eye, the IVAW members who claim they got PTSD from interviewing real veterans while a journalist and IVAW members who claim they got PTSD from worrying about their friends who actually deployed, well those guys won’t qualify for treatment without trying to convince the DVA they were combat soldiers. That’ll get some more phony soldier business.<\/p>\n

But anyway my bitch with dicksmith today is this paragraph;<\/p>\n

This doesn’t even address the Bush Administration’s under funding of VA and general lack of concern for Veterans and caring for them. The treatment received by Vets from George W. Bush was shameful, but President Obama has raised the bar and set a new standard for the way we care for Vets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Bush’s underfunding of the VA. See, I actually research<\/a> before I make idiot claims like that. According to the VA’s own accounting, their entire budget in 2000 (the year before Bush became president) was $106.2 billion. In 2008, the last year of his presidency the DVA’s budget was $422.6 billion. So the “underfunded” DVA’s budget grew four-fold under Bush. Was it enough? No, it wasn’t, but it was a damn-sight better than it was before him and a damn-sight less shameful than dicksmith would like to you to believe.<\/p>\n

dicksmith’s post brags that Obama set the standard for Veteran care, but it looks to me like Bush set the standard and Obama learned from Bush to not slight veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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