Disabled Veterans Have It Too Good

Alan Simpson truly is a monster:

RALEIGH, N.C.—The system that automatically awards disability benefits to some veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange seems contrary to efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission said Tuesday.

Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson's comments came a day after The Associated Press reported that diabetes has become the most frequently compensated ailment among Vietnam veterans, even though decades of research has failed to find more than a possible link between the defoliant Agent Orange and diabetes.

"The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess," said Simpson, an Army veteran who was once chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.

Let's repeat that last quote, just to emphasize how appalling it is:

"The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess,"

He thinks our veterans are burdens because of their medical costs... costs that stem from injuries they sustained serving our country.

Fucking unreal.

So Obama was clearly too in love with Simpsons' social security cutting fantasies to fire him the first time around, but what about now?

Does he also agree that disabled veterans have it too good and are hurting our country?

Hey Barack, he speaks for you and he speaks for your administration.

He needs to go, now.