Bernie Sanders Rips John Boehner for Calling for Cuts to Disabled Veterans’ Benefits
http://www.politicususa.com/bernie-sanders-rips-john-boehner-calling-cuts-disabled-veterans-benefits.htmlBernie Sanders Rips John Boehner for Calling for Cuts to Disabled Veterans’ Benefits
By: Jason Easley
December 5th, 2012
In an address at the National Press Club today, Sen. Bernie Sanders tore into John Boehner and his fellow House Republicans for suggested cutting disabled veterans’ benefits in order to reduce the deficit.
John Boehner’s deficit reduction proposal includes cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid with new tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. Boehner also called for a switch to the chained CPI, which would reduce annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients, and for disabled veterans.
Sanders called Boehner’s proposal morally and economically unacceptable, “It is morally and economically unacceptable that anyone in Congress would propose more tax breaks for millionaires, billionaires and large corporations while at the same time proposing significant cuts for disabled veterans,. This is not what the American people want and it is not what must happen.”
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The chained CPI is a big change that some Democrats and most Republicans are trying sell as something minor. The reality is that disabled veterans would see their benefits cut by $1,300-$2,260 a year by the time they reach age 65. Republicans are trying to create more revenue by reducing the level of benefits for disabled veterans. If implemented, the chained CPI would push Americans who already in or teetering towards poverty deeper into economic distress.
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It was shameful when Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would create millions of jobs for veterans then quickly fled town, and it is even more disgraceful that congressional Republicans would even consider dishonoring and impoverishing those who have sacrificed so much. I am sure that these brave individuals would do more if asked. But anyone with a conscience can’t ask them to do more, when the wealthy have done nothing.
Liberals, progressives, conservatives, Democrats, and Republicans across this country should join together to tell Republicans that the United States does not steal from its veterans to give to the rich. Bernie Sanders said it best. What Republicans are trying to do to our disabled veterans is morally wrong, and injustice can only prevail when people stay quiet and let it stand.
Don’t stay quiet.
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Republicon chickenhawks wear lapel pin flags and cut vets benefits.
"promote the general welfare" doctrine, one of the few unwilling for the old, poor, disabled, and disadvantaged to bear to bear the brunt of austerity, one of the few not willing for government to renege on its Social Security and Medicare obligations so der Mittens can pay only 13.9% in Federal income tax and many large, profitable corporation can pay no federal income tax: he is imo perhaps the first great living American hero and patriot to come along since the late Barbara Jordan. Godspeed, Senator. 
in the House and Senate not uttering a peep about boner and his cuts does worry me being a vet myself. Those cuts mentioned by bonehead are unconscionable. These rethuhs must be stopped and sent to the dustbin history. No vet, disabled in two wars that went on too long and one of them based on a lie, deserves this type of treatment.
This is rethug cold heartedness that cannot be tolerated. Those are some dastardly people on the right. 
