Anonymous wrote:Because there have been 6 previous veteran jobs bills and this one adds to the deficit, without being fully paid for. Which is in direct violation of last years congressional budget agreement. It was also poorly thought out and was just pushed by Democrats make it look like they were doing some. A lot more work needed to be done on that bill.

This was just a political ploy by the democrats to make republicans look bad to veterans.

It's all very slight of hand accounting to make it look like its paid for. An even if it was, why should we accept that it's going to take 10 years to pay for $1b to spent over 5. That's part of the reason we're in the mess that we're in.

But none of that matters. It seems to me the bill is a revenue bill, which is required to start in the house. This was just a political ploy by the democrats to make republicans look bad to veterans.

Anonymous wrote:

It's all very slight of hand accounting to make it look like its paid for. An even if it was, why should we accept that it's going to take 10 years to pay for $1b to spent over 5. That's part of the reason we're in the mess that we're in.

But none of that matters. It seems to me the bill is a revenue bill, which is required to start in the house. This was just a political ploy by the democrats to make republicans look bad to veterans.

Fucking republicans can fund a war off the books for 800 billion, but when the time comes to help the people who fought the war they are no where to be found.