This is some pretty good advice from Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. When you vote to send American citizens to war (any kind of war, even a ridiculous and unnecessary one), you have an obligation to help the veterans of those wars to access needed medical care, educational opportunities, and to find a decent job. Sanders has a bill pending in the Senate that would do that, but it is being blocked by Senate Republicans. Those Republicans were quick to send those citizens to war (and spend over a trillion dollars to do it), but now claim we don't have the money to help them. That is unacceptable -- especially since those same Republicans are now trying to pick a new war (with Iran).
The GOP/TP message seems to be: go to war for us but don't come home alive. Members of the military only have value as cannon fodder in the corporate imperial wars. Don't you know that veterans are merely a drag on corporate profits and thus reduce the personal wealth of the 1%?
ReplyDeleteIt's just a variation on the socio/psychopathic theme of telling people without health insurance to die .