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As David over at DailyKos says, I'm all for balancing the budget. In fact I'm more for it than most in the GOP. But doing it this way is just disgusting:

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 - President Bush's budget would more than double the co-payment charged to many veterans for prescription drugs and would require some to pay a new fee of $250 a year for the privilege of using government health care, administration officials said Sunday. The proposals, they said, are in the $2.5 trillion budget that Mr. Bush plans to unveil on Monday. White House officials said the budget advanced his goal of cutting the deficit, which hit a record last year. "We are being tight," Vice President Dick Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday." "This is the tightest budget that has been submitted since we got here."

We send our troops off to fight an unnecessary war, don't provide them with either the plans or the equipment necessary to win and come home safely, and now, when and if they do finally make it home after sacrificing so much, they'll return to find we're slashing their health benefits.

And it's the Dems who get labeled with not "supporting the troops." It's just astounding to me the lies people are willing to believe about this president and his party.

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