Want to know how much Republicans suck? 30% of our troops military families (correction from poster at Kudlow) need food stamps to feed their families. And where PX food is not available they are impoverished. The bullshit Republicans haven't moved to raise their pay. They did nothing to jack up the death benefits to families, currently at---get this---$12,000. (Very late add: Congress just announced at 1:10 PST that they will raise death benefit to $100,000.) I rarely listen to Don Imus (I'm on the Left Coast) but I understand that he basically intimidated a few congress people to finally act, or at least pretend to act. I know, that if you pay for it, you can get good life insurance. The problem is that these guys don't make enough to pay for the insurance. I once tried to get Republicans on the Veterans Affairs Committee to act on a serious complaint of mine and not one of them responded to me. Barbara Boxer, the worst of the worst, at least sent me a form to fill out. Want more? Walter Reed Army Hospital, the one where soldiers who have lost limbs are assigned, has no gym, no physical therapy center, and no rehab program worth of the name. Want more? They all have to pay for their own phone calls and they don't have the money to do so. Some patients have to stay in hotels because there is no room to care for them. I predict that these fucking Republicans, who have become exactly like the Democrats in that they are sealed from the public, are going to start losing. You might want to write your piece of shit rep on this. Google searches will yield literally hundreds of different citations. Neither MSM or bloggers bother with this.

The Military is rumored to have closed a lot of miltary blogs. Information is now hard to come by because under the law--now being rigidly enforced---

......health care personnel can go to prison and/or be fined astronomical amounts for even talking to other health professionals or family members about the condition and/or treatment of anyone in health care in the US at this time.

And try this one one---link from Truth Seeker---

Walter Reed has been at maximum capacity since Operation Enduring Freedom began in Afghanistan in 2001. The hospital staff is working 70- or 80-hour weeks, and Walter Reed is so full that it has taken over beds normally reserved for cancer patients to handle the influx. Sometimes the lack of needed items borders on the surreal. Back in July, the Chaplain's Office at LRMC sent out an appeal for useable clothing for male soldiers injured in Iraq. Many of these soldiers were airlifted to the hospital in medical dressing gowns and had no access to clothes for onward transportation.

The near total disregard for Veterans care by the Republicansis summed up HERE

Representatives removed $1.8 billion in health care funds for medical treatment of veterans, funds that were previously approved by the same body. "These lawmakers agreed on $27.1 billion in April. Now they pass a bill in July that is $1.8 billion short of that. This is a moral outrage...."

These fucking Republicans are total fakes.

Late add: while anything Barbara Ehrenreich writes needs to be checked I am always disappointed to find that she is usually correct. Her piece on Military Families is HERE. I leave out the tons of reports of churches feeding Military familes. Check Google. I have also opened up the comments on this post. Blogger doesn't do a good job. Comments seem to vanish.