[lbo-talk] Iraq war: breaking past $300b

[Jim Devine]

On 4/27/06, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I don't see anyone taking the war vets medical costs into consideration.  Oh
> yeah, that's right.  They'll just cut VA hospital funding and leave the
> psychologically damaged to fend for themselves with shopping carts on the
> streets of America herself. ...

FWIW, there was a story on U.S. National Public Radio about how
soldiers amputees were getting the highest-tech prosthetics at the
same time that civilians were getting the shaft (because insurance
companies wouldn't pay for good prosthetics). But I'm afraid you're
right.

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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles