Why, by raising the prices for their prescriptions. And, given that that story is registration-required, I'll just reproduce the first few paragraphs for your edification:
President Bush's budget would more than double the co-payment charged to many veterans for prescription drugs and would require some to pay a new fee of $250 a year for the privilege of using government health care, administration officials said Sunday.
The proposals, they said, are in the $2.5 trillion budget that Mr. Bush plans to unveil on Monday. White House officials said the budget advanced his goal of cutting the deficit, which hit a record last year.
"We are being tight," Vice President Dick Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday." "This is the tightest budget that has been submitted since we got here."
The proposals to increase charges to veterans face stiff opposition from veterans organizations, Democratic members of Congress and some Republicans.
Mr. Cheney said the White House had judiciously identified scores of domestic programs to be cut or eliminated. "It's not something we've done with a meat ax, nor are we suddenly turning our backs on the most needy people in our society."
The proposals could provoke months of furious debate on Capitol Hill. Democrats have already indicated that they are poised to pounce on any sign that the Bush administration is stinting on veterans' benefits.
Sorry, refresh my memory -- how was it that the Democrats were betraying the troops again?
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From CC:
Mr. Gillespie is demonstrating an absolutely breathtaking, jaw-dropping ignorance of the most basic facts imaginable. He writes, "Bush sincerly [sic] believed that Iraq has WMD's."
Really? Then why, in February of 2001, did Colin Powell say that Saddam Hussein "has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction"?
Why, in that same month, did the CIA report that, "We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programmes"?
Why, in July of 2001, did Condoleezza Rice say, "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt"?
Please, Mr. Gillespie. Take some good advice. You are not ready for this. Start slowly and work your way up. Maybe hang around the local 7-11 with your homeys and debate who's skankier -- Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera? Something simpler. Something easier. Something more suited to your current level of intellectual development.
You are just not ready for any sort of involved discussion of world and current events, or foreign policy. Really.
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