Badly-wounded veterans often depend on the support of family and that family, their caregivers, need help because of the unrelenting toll taken on them.
"The caregivers seek passage of legislation that would require the Veterans Affairs Department to offer more training to primary caregivers of severely injured veterans from the recent wars. Those certified would be eligible for benefits such as health care and a stipend of a few hundred dollars a week." [Associated Press]
Let's be honest with ourselves. Once a man has been badly injured he is just no good as a warrior and why spend funds on someone who can no longer adequately "serve" his country. Perhaps all those wounded veterans could be retrained as MBA's through major investment bank training and taught to sell corporate and government debt. They would then, once again, become useful members of society and would all make plenty of money to pay for health care!
Posted by: Lawrence Turner | July 27, 2009 at 09:44 AM