Nope. We have evidence over the last few (aka many) years that is not the case.
IIRC she resigned when Tan the Conman incited the January 6th insurrection.
… California pharmacies may see a large upswing in sales.
Too little, too late.
I’d just like to thank all the Republicans that fought so hard to prevent Obama’s Death Panels from meddling in the patient/doctor that would have prevented us all from getting the medical care we need and only get the care that the government approved of. [/s]
Among many Republicans, I would suspect, is a perception that today’s all-volunteer military is way too non-white. “Those people” need to be put in their place–not helped with “government handouts” (etc. etc. etc.)
BINGO. The ‘populist’ part of sticking it to veterans is encouraging GOP voters to think of veterans as The Other—‘them shiftless black and brown people’ (etc. etc. etc.)
The very, very practical part of sticking it to veterans is the massive wealth that could be shifted into a few pockets by privatizing all veteran-related functions.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
(My bolding in the quote.)
Yikes. I think you are absolutely right.
They filled it 24 hours later, but it should never, ever have happened in the first place.
Good to hear that. Thanks.
I’m wondering what they think about those non-minority soldiers who, while on active duty, find they must rely on government assistance (“food stamps” and the like) to make ends meet.
“They should have chosen a career that makes money.” /s
As always, follow the money.
Suckers and losers, as their former CiC said.
Yep. He proved, over the course of four years, the only soldier he respects is a communist general.
That’s what they get for hanging out with a bunch of them. Probably a them-lover, I know you know what I’m talking about…
I’m kind of disgusted and nauseated by the direction this discussion is going… but I gotta say I think it’s correct. 
Take the fact that only 17% of current congressional members are veterans, so they don’t know what it means to serve in the military, and combine that with the impression (accurate or not) that the military today is the place where minorities and less-educated people go because they can’t make it in corporate America… oh yuck.
Today’s military isn’t the Big White Army or past generations-- of middle-class white daddies, professionals, patriots who marched off to preserve the American Way of Life. Yeah, there were Blacks, but they were kept in their own groups, separate from the Real Armed Forces.
I know this is a hodgepodge of inaccurate beliefs, but perception is everything. And now those minorities who couldn’t make it in the business world expect us to give them handouts when they leave the military? My Father/Grandfather/Uncles served their country honorably. Then came home, went to college on the GI Bill, got good jobs, and supported their families. Today’s soldiers are deadbeats who couldn’t get real jobs.
I may throw up.
[Everybody understands that I’m hypothesizing about why congressional support for veterans is weak, right? I’m trying to analyze the thinking (excuse the expression)]
Isn’t the U.S. military like 60% white, and disproportionally Southern?
Maybe. But who cares? It’s impressions that matter, not facts.
OK, but that’s always been my impression of your military - mostly white, mostly Southern, mostly Republican. That’s more or less how it’s depicted in American media.
I truly don’t know. “American media” is a pretty broad category. A source of impressions more than factual reality.
Once all men of a certain age stopped being subjected to the draft in the early 1970s, the composition of the military changed. That’s almost 50 years ago. Military service had been the certain fate of virtually all able-bodied males, and when it became optional, boys/men with other options took them. People with no other options were more likely to choose military service. That had to have changed the composition of the military. This is a worthy subject for investigation and discussion, but probably not in this thread.
I’m trying to figure out why congress, which has historically valued and supported veterans, has ceased doing so to the level that past generations did.