CBO: Fiscal Cliff Could Trigger a Recession

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by jms62

If we had 10% war tax and instituted the draft would we have multiple decade long wars or would we get involved only when absolutely necessary? The average American is oblivious to the carnage of these wars actual and financial.

When I moved to Tampa 8 and a half years ago, my wife was a VA nurse who was able to transfer to the James a Haley VA hospital in town.

That hospital is now 2 and a half times the size it was then, and the spinal cord wing alone is practically the size of the original hospital.

The costs and suffering will last decades longer than any end to these wars, predetermined or otherwise, will preclude.

It'd be nice if the media did their job, but we all know why they don't.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

When I moved to Tampa 8 and a half years ago, my wife was a VA nurse who was able to transfer to the James a Haley VA hospital in town.

That hospital is now 2 and a half times the size it was then, and the spinal cord wing alone is practically the size of the original hospital.

The costs and suffering will last decades longer than any end to these wars, predetermined or otherwise, will preclude.

It'd be nice if the media did their job, but we all know why they don't.

i saw a bit on a show the other evening, discussing how broken vets aren't the only ones who suffer. it showed the wives and families of some of these vets. one lady is married to a guy who suffered head trauma from an IED. she said he's 'not the man she married'. he has a different personality than he had before, he has a service dog, he's disabled, he tends to lose his temper very, very easily. so she's trying to take care of him, and her daughter, and keep their family as normal as possible.
another woman has a husband who tried to commit suicide because of the lasting effects from several tours in iraq and afganistan. she has tried to commit suicide twice herself.
you can see the physical results of some of the wounds-but the emotional wounds, to the vet as well as his/her family, are not so easily seen. but they're there.