It's Time To Take Care of Our Vets

War has been part of human society for as long as humans have lived together. Even in the early times when human society was just clans of people, these clans would still fight over territory and whatnot. The big problem that we face now, is the fact that war has gotten more advanced, more dangerous, and we now see ours vets returning from war, injured in body and mind, and not receiving the proper care. Bernie Sanders seeks to change how the VA (Veterans Affair) treats our vets after they return home.

One of my favorite line from a song is actually from Linkin Park's 'Hands Held High' when Mike Shinoda raps, "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die". It's a powerful line, and absolutely true. The US has been in a long struggle now in the Middle East, we have spent trillions of dollars and have placed ourselves into a deficit that we are far from escaping. 

War is expensive, but if you're going to cut costs on war, it shouldn't be on the people who did the fighting for you. The United States has treated wounded vets and vets with PTSD horribly. They come home and have to wait days to see a doctor. Some of them can't even work immediately after the war due to their injuries and they're left homeless. Does that sound right? The men and women who go to war lie hungry on the cold streets while the people who sent them there sit in their nice warm homes sipping expensive alcohol and debating how to spend more money on a war that is going nowhere. 

It is immoral and a process that has to change. Why is the United States so hell-bent on killing the people overseas, but we can't even take care of the people suffering at home? 

Republicans, who are so much for war, simply turn a blind eye, advocate the absolute destruction of ISIS, and instead of trying to help the vets, they spend their time trying to defund Planned Parenthood. 

It's time we put our tax dollars towards helping the people that protect us, not sending more of them into a never-ending war.