Hell of a price to pay.......

Hallmarkgrad1 wrote:Senate Holds Vet Mental Health Hearing
Week of March 25, 2013
The U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs recently examined the Department of Veterans Affairs' efforts to provide mental health counseling for veterans who are committing suicides at a rate of more than 8,000 a year. The Department of Veterans Affairs has made progress, but is short of its own goal set last year to hire 1,600 clinicians by June 30. As of March 13, the VA had hired 1,105 clinicians. Dr. Robert A. Petzel, the head of the Veterans Health Administration, said the VA would streamline its hiring process to meet the June 30 goal. A transcript and video of the hearing are available on the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs website along with the comprehensive report released earlier this year by VA on veterans who die by suicide.
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2seaoat wrote:The vets are simply the canary in the mine. This country has had the median income plunge, the minimum wage is about 40% less in real dollars than it was when I was a kid, families struggle to pay utilities, pay rent, pay medical bills, and yet we have folks in congress who have been following dictates and making pledges to revolutionaries who want to destroy the American government and deliver it lock stock and barrel to wealth like a third world Latin American nation state which is democratic in name only where 70% of the population is in dire poverty, 20% is a middle class, and 10% are wealthy........yet in America, every attempt to increase the median income is stricken as folks who have million dollar homes deduct mortgage interest as the poor subsidize farm subsidy, and these fools continue to follow this course of divisive politics which only results in this country being looted by the oligarchy.......nope, the suicide rates simply reflect the general despair of this country as the middle class shrinks, the wealthy use government to leverage their hidden revolution, and a veteran leaves the service to find the world of little opportunity and folks literally starving.

2seaoat wrote:it is time not to take the BS anymore.

Hallmarkgrad1 wrote:Do you really think money is the root cause of the suicides?

Floridatexan wrote:

Hallmarkgrad1 wrote:Do you really think money is the root cause of the suicides?

No, it's the disparity between the person's moral code and the deeds they've done and the things they've seen...and then they find what they find when they come home...and at some point, they realize they've been sold out...