Bachmann proposes cuts to veterans benefits including reducing SSDI payments for veterans

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http://minnesotaindependent.com/76913/bachmann-budget-cuts-propose-reducing-veterans-benefits

Plan calls for reduction in Social Security Disability Income for vets

By Luke Johnson | 01.28.11 | 10:36 am

This week, Rep. Michelle Bachmann proposed $400 billion in “real and necessary” budget cuts in federal spending to avoid raising the budget ceiling from $14.3 trillion. The cuts include capping increases in Department of Veterans Affairs’ health care spending and reducing Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) payments for veterans, all to save a total of $4.5 billion.

However, health care costs are rising anyway, meaning less care, and SSDI payments are only $12,800 a year, according to the Air Force Times:

Her list of cuts doesn’t explain the impact of freezing veterans’ health care funding, but the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a report issued in October that health care costs have been quickly increasing. VA’s health care budget was $44 billion in 2009, $48 billion in 2010 and is at $52 billion this year. The report forecasts a health care budget of $69 billion or higher by 2020 if trends continue, the report estimates.

Another measure in her cuts is to repeal “Obamacare,” which she claims has “unknown” savings. Actually, the CBO measured

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1. Cut your own damn healthcare, Bachmann. You never fought for this country.

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2. So where's the M$M outcry about how she hates the Veterans???

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3. Rep. Bachmann - Please meet some of my fellow veterans at the Dallas VAMC

I'm sure that we can straighten this out quickly.

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4. the rich must not suffer.

my kingdom for some guillotines.

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5. Bachmann won't put her $$$ where her raving piehole is, w/over a quarter million that her family

received in farm subsidies:

Bachmann’s financial disclosure forms indicate that her personal stake in the family farm is worth up to $250,000. They also show that she has been earning income from the farm business, and that the income grew in just a few years from $2,000 to as much as $50,000 for 2008. This has provided her with a second government-subsidized income to go with her job as a government-paid congresswoman who makes $174,000 per year (in addition to having top-notch government medical benefits).

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/michelle_bachman_welfare_queen_20091221/


It is also too bad that her equally batshit-insane teabagger voting base in Bachmann's gerrymandered 6th district are completely ignorant of the fact that their hysterical hypocrite heroine is filled right up to her crazy-eyeballs in socialist benefits, support, salary, pension, and funding.