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"But the most important recent development involves President Obama’s proposal to have veterans wounded in combat pay with their own health insurance for their own medical care received at VA facilities. Anyone with even one-half of a non-functioning brain would know this proposal would never fly and it would be rejected almost universally by Congress, veterans’ groups and the public. When a president even proposes this kind of a dagger-in-the-back of battle-wounded veterans, the proposal should have a P.S. reading 'I’m incompetent as demonstrated by this asinine proposal.'
"Yet, Mr. Obama and his people were so incompetent as to propose this betrayal of our veterans. He not only proposed it, but also kept pushing it. For example, he had a meeting last Monday, with the national commander of the American Legion, who said, after the meeting, the President 'intended to move forward' with the proposal. Finally, on Wednesday, his press secretary announced, 'The president has instructed that its consideration be dropped.'
"The outrage at the proposal should have been easily predicted. For example, here are some of the comments found in published reports:
• Eleven veterans’ organizations, in a letter to the president, wrote the proposal is 'a total abrogation of our government’s moral and legal responsibility' to treat service-connected medical problems.
• An Amvets spokesman said the proposal 'flew in the face of the government’s covenant to care for all service-connected needs of our veterans.'
• A Congressman said, 'Our budget cannot be balanced on the backs of our nation’s combat-wounded heroes.'
"As far as I’m concerned, this proposal, backed personally and advocated personally by Mr. Obama, shows the incompetence of the White House from Mr. Obama on down."
