The second part to the solution is to end the expensive
unfunded wars that have ruined the federal budget for the
past 11 years as well as future budgets due to the cost of
veterans’ hospital care and benefits. According to ABC World
News, “In the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Center, 2,333,972 American
military personnel have been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan
or both, as of Aug. 30, 2011 [more than a year ago].” These
2.3 million veterans have rights to various unfunded
benefits including life-long health care. Already, according
to ABC, 711,986 have used Veterans Administration health
care between fiscal year 2002 and the third-quarter of
fiscal year 2011.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-veterans-numbers/story?id=14928136#1
The Republicans are determined to continue the gratuitous
wars and to make the 99 percent pay for the
neoconservatives’ Wars of Hegemony while protecting the 1
percent from tax increases.
The Democrats are little different.