Congress

Unhappycamper -

You are right. The defense budget is bloated and rife with waste. BUT, it should not be decreased.
Instead it should be INCREASED to provide lifetime care and support to all of our injured and disabled veterans.
The actual lack of timely services, money and understanding is shameful.

Will that cost money? Yes, of course. There is plenty of money available from bloated corporate treasuries which
has accumulated due to bad tax laws, hidden profits, special exemptions and plain cheating. We need to convince
the average American to send a message to congress, especially to the Republican congress, that increased tax revenue is
a moral imperative in order to properly take care of our veterans.

Additionally, American business has to be pushed to provide all veterans with reasonable employment opportunities.
This could be accomplished by NEGATIVE tax incentives.

NEGATIVE? Yes. INCREASE tax rates on corporations who don't employ a generous cohort of veterans. The extra revenue
could go into providing better veteran's benefits.

About the waste that exists in the defense establishment - this is not due so much to bad judgment but rather to
undue lobbying by corporate interests. Wake up Supreme Court. Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE and are not protected
by the Bill of Rights. The US constitution talks about people, peoples and persons, not corporations.

Until the "conservative" Supreme Court justices are replaced and the Court comes to its senses, corporate lobbying and pork projects will continue to waste a significant fraction of the defense budget which could be better spent on veterans well being.

Not to mention the cost of ill considered wars in the middle east, promoted by "chicken hawk" neocons like Bill Kristol,
Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Kagan Brothers etc.