GOP Senator Ron Johnson, Political Gollum and Enemy of Veterans

Senator Ron Johnson (R, Wisconsin) said he couldn’t support the Veterans Administration support bill because of its cost—$35 billion the first two years and $50 billion per year after that, according to a preliminary estimate by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.  We do not know the precise numbers but the CBO is authentic enough to give a reasonable idea of costs.

However, that cost does nothing to illustrate the reality insofar as the Middle East wars (including Afghanistan, etc) have cost anywhere up to four to six trillion dollars.  Johnson cops all kinds of excuses about Iraq, blaming it on Obama as if Cheney and Bush did an exemplary job but one salient fact remains throughout the entire period:  there was never adequate support for the Veterans Administration and waits of three months for a medical appointment are not uncommon but rather standard practice.  I know this.  I live it.

Where Senator Ron Johnson is so grossly-disingenuous in talking of costs is in his utter failure or unwillingness to understand a trillion dollars is a THOUSAND billion.  Whether it was one trillion or six trillion spent on these failed military campaigns overseas only changes the magnitude of Johnson's gross dismissal of facts and his utter heartlessness toward those who served when he asked.

Fifty billion for Veterans Administration versus even a single trillion for the original estimate for the original invasion of the Iraq is still only five percent of the money spent on all that pointless devastation, none of which has accomplished one damn thing for America but it sure wasted a whole lot of kids.  I know this because I see the youth of them every time I go out to the VA clinic.

After spending such a vast amount of money to devastate the world, Senator Ron Johnson isn't even willing to spend five percent or less to do any small thing toward assisting the veterans who paid the price for it.

Damn him to hell for being a Gollum who prizes only money and a political sophist characterized by myopia, selfishness, and utterly callous disregard for his fellow humans.

That the Veterans Administration would do better if it were privatized is entirely disproven by the reckless greed of the existing medical insurance companies which ostensibly serve the public health in America.  The massive overhead in these organizations (e.g. 35% - 45% lost to 'overhead') is one of the primary disgraces of modern America.  There has never been a time in American history when the country has turned its back on veterans in this way.

The Veterans Administration is not socialism but rather doing the right thing by the people the government sent to war.  There are few more profound reflections of a failing civilization than its disrespect for its veterans and Senator Ron Johnson exemplifies that in the most callous possible way.

Don't wave flags and organize parades to show you support veterans.  They don't mean one damn thing when a young girl has had her legs blown off by a bomb and she walks click, click, click as she makes her way through the hospital.  I have seen and heard this not once but many times and always it brings tears to me in seeing their youth and how brave they are in the face of it.

Senator Ron Johnson should spend some time in a VA clinic so that shallow bastard has some idea of the people he punishes.  Damn him for failing to meet even the lowest standard of being a man.