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Smart budget cuts at the VA could help preserve critical services

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By Mike Desmond Verified
| The Hill Verified
What does it mean to keep a promise to our veterans and to the next generation? With the national debt surpassing $36 trillion, a serious assessment of federal spending, including within the Department of Veterans Affairs, is not just prudent, it’s necessary. This isn’t an ideological debate. It’s arithmetic. Nearly one in every four dollars the federal government spends is borrowed. Interest on the debt exceeds what we spend on national defense.
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Opinion - Smart budget cuts at the VA could help preserve critical services

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By Mike Desmond Verified
| Aol Verified
What does it mean to keep a promise to our veterans and to the next generation? With the national debt surpassing $36 trillion, a serious assessment of federal spending, including within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is not just prudent, it’s necessary. This isn’t an ideological debate. It’s arithmetic. Nearly 1 in every 4 dollars the federal government spends is borrowed. Interest on the debt exceeds what we spend on national defense.
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Opinion: Pardon people, not turkeys

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By Mike Desmond Verified
| Centre Daily Times Verified
Every year it's the same thing: the White House announcing the name of turkeys that will be spared becoming a Thanksgiving meal. It's been this way on and off since Abraham Lincoln gave in to his son Tad's request and made it a pet and not the family dinner. President Kennedy was the first to send a gobbler back to the farm instead of the kitchen. But it was Ronald Reagan who first used the word "pardon" and George H.W. Bush who made it into an annual White House tradition.
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