What happens when a retiring senator no longer needs the military photo ops, no longer has to constantly intone “I support the troops”, or has to give his heavily military supportive home state the impression that he will not abandon the troops who are returning from wars he supports?
He puts the screws to those who fought for the country, and goes home.
Statistics show that 22 military veterans commit suicide every day.
Yet, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has decided that his last act as a senator who has served for 10 years and is retiring will be to block funding for a program to help reduce veteran suicides.
According to him, even though people have been complaining for years that the VA has not been doing a very good job, rather than pass the $22 million bill that would attempt to address these suicides, that job should done by the existing programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“I don’t think this bill would do the first thing to change what’s happening”, Coburn said.
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As proposed, the bill would require that the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department present their suicide prevention programs for independent review, set up a website to provide veterans with information on mental health services, get more psychiatrists to work with veterans who have express a desire to, or have shown signs of wanting to commit suicide by offering them financial incentives to do that, and institute programs to assist veterans who return from deployment.
Coburn sees this as a waste of money.
Of course, trillions of dollars spent on wars that create these veterans and their deployment related difficulties, is money well spent.
Perhaps Coburn is one of those who feels the problem actually is that with modern weapons of war, not enough troops are getting killed, and too many are coming home?
