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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff
Can you back up that claim? I am not really doubting you but there does tend to be a media trick out there for the last 20 years or so of calling any budget increase smaller then originally projected a cut.
I am just curious if this is one of those instances.
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I'm sure Prudence has many sources, but a quick search led to
this and
this and
this.
Of course, it was a bit of a challenge sorting through all the 'Veteran's for Peace' and 'Veteran's Against the Iraq war' sites...
At a time when we are at war and incurring casualites, not to mention that there are numerous vets from other wars that still need care, of course a decrease would be considered a cut- there is a shortfall regardless of what you call it.