{"id":34819,"date":"2013-03-29T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T12:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34819"},"modified":"2013-03-29T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T12:33:58","slug":"bill-macclellan-doubles-down-on-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34819","title":{"rendered":"Bill MacClellan “doubles down” on the stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we wrote<\/a> about Bill MacClellan of the Saint Louis Post Dispatch who claims that most veterans don’t do anything heroic, so they don’t deserve a government-funded funeral. Today, he goes back for another bite at that turd<\/a>;<\/p>\n

As I said in Wednesday\u2019s column, the way you cut a budget is by cutting small programs and trimming big ones. I suggested letting veterans service organizations provide military funerals for their members. That did not seem despicable or outrageous to me. It still doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Nor did it seem political. I thought reasonable people on both sides of the aisle understood we have to control our spending.<\/p>\n

Sadly, if the response I\u2019ve gotten is any indication, there\u2019s not much hope for any kind of a deal. Nobody wants to give up anything. I was hoping veterans could lead the way. It would be a heroic thing to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, Billy-boy, it seems that you’re the only one who gets to define heroic in this discussion. Veterans have already suffered mightily in this “program cutting” thing. Thousands of retirees in the West have had their healthcare slashed. All retirees had our surplus of healthcare premiums raided by the government to spend for other things while they hike our premiums and co-pays. This year, we finally got a tiny cost-of-living increase for the first time since 2009. So, now, you think that when we “hurry up and die” like the government wants, we shouldn’t get the send off into the great beyond that we deserve?<\/p>\n

I flunked out of college and was drafted into the Marine Corps. I went to Vietnam. I did nothing heroic. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You went to Vietnam while the rest of your generation didn’t – you don’t see anything heroic in that? Just because you don’t think your own service is worthy, stop shitting on the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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