Veterans Day Truth

Big, empty talk from political types:

The White House had said Bush was going to also [sic] use his Veterans Day speech to scold Congress for not sending him a veterans spending bill. But the president finished without any reference to the bill or Congress.

And Vice-President Other Priorities & Five Deferments dishonors the fallen by being in the same cemetery w/ them. What's really up w/ veterans & the country they served:

Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population[.] [...] Some advocates say such an early presence of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan at shelters does not bode well for the future. It took roughly a decade for the lives of Vietnam veterans to unravel to the point that they started showing up among the homeless. Advocates worry that intense and repeated deployments leave newer veterans particularly vulnerable. [...] Historically, a number of fighters in U.S. wars have become homeless. In the post-Civil War era, homeless veterans sang old Army songs to dramatize their need for work and became known as “tramps,” which had meant to march into war, said Todd DePastino, a historian at Penn State University’s Beaver campus who wrote a book on the history of homelessness.

Use 'em up & throw 'em away. A great American/capitalist tradition. Isn't hypocrisy grand?