Name:   wix - Subject:   Goof-butt Date:   10/10/2016 10:40:48 PM

Your reference article is a terribly written piece.  The $1.7 ? Trillion is for the next FORTY YEARS and includes all VA costs including Vietnam veterans, so let's talk about real numbers.  The biggest problem with the VA are the thousands upon thousands of worthless employees that can't be fired.  If they shut down the VA hospitals and put veterans on medicare, not Medicaid , the veterans would be better served....but then taxpayers would have to continue paying totally worthless VA employees.  Interesting facts:  2.7 million soldiers served in Vietnam with 58,500 killed.  Iraq and Afghanistan had 2.5 million serve with only 6,000 killed.  Death rate in Vietnam was TEN TIMES HIGHER than middle east deaths.