Joe Scarborough
How we don't take care of our troops: It's a national disgrace
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | When I did business in Washington, D.C., when I served on Capitol Hill, do you know what I found out? I found out that politicians love to say one thing and do another. Just ask America's vets.
When I served on the Armed Services Committee for almost four terms, I saw firsthand how our troops, our men and women in uniform lived on food stamps in many instances. I learned also firsthand of how Congress and the president would make one promise on health care, and then do something completely different.
We call this "lying" in northwest Florida.
You know what else I learned? I learned that so many American families who, had troops overseas, weren't even given enough money to keep their families together, while their husbands or their wives or sons or daughters were serving overseas. It's a national disgrace.
Of course, Scarborough Country showed you two weeks ago how young men and women killed in Iraq, just in the past few months, were not given enough money for their families to even bury them.
I had one mother email me last night, and she said, "Joe, thank you so much for exposing this. But I really feel like there's nothing we can do."
But there is something you can do. You can pick up the phone. You can call your congressman or congresswoman at (202) 225-3121 and tell them you're not putting up with it anymore.
If they care for our men and women overseas, if they want to liberate Iraq, if they want to free people across this globe, then they need to take care of the men and women who are fighting that battle every day.
You know what? They're not doing it.
And if they tell you they are, they're lying.
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