The Victoria Advocate : Fight brewing over Waco VA hospital

"Roger Sturdevant, 53, goes to the Waco VA hospital several times a week for the therapeutic swimming pool and post-traumatic stress disorder group therapy sessions. But he said Friday that he probably would not be able to drive the 35 miles to Temple or 100 miles to Austin.

'I think it's terrible for them to make vets go so far from home,' said Sturdevant, who walks with a cane after his broken legs didn't heal properly after Vietnam. 'They're slitting our throats. They don't care about us, period.'"

This is what the Rebubbalicans are all about: pull a bunch of guy and gal reservists out of their regular jobs, send them around the globe to be wounded and traumatized in unpopular, elective, unnecessary wars, put out "stop-loss" orders so they can't end their tours of duty on time, and then get rid of their benefits once they've been disabled and sent home. This last part, the "benefits", is what Alan Greenspan, the rebubbalican Fed Shill, calls the "expenditure side".