The Vail Spot: Veterans' promised tuition checks AWOL

Nemo me impune lacessit

No one provokes me with impunity

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No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Article 1, Section 9, Constitution of the United States

If this is the law of the land...why in a republic (little r) and as republicans, do we allow mere POLITICIANS to the right to use a "title of office" for the rest of their lives as if it were de facto a patent of nobility. Because, as republicans, this should NOT be the case...just saying...

Friday, September 25, 2009

Veterans' promised tuition checks AWOL

The U.S. government failed to send promised college tuition checks to tens of thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before they returned to school this fall, even after being warned that it was inadequately staffed for the job.

The Veterans Affairs Department blamed a backlog of claims filed for GI Bill education benefits that has left veterans who counted on the money for tuition and books scrambling to make ends meet.

Yet these are precisely the kind of goverment organization that Democrats want to run nationalized health care. As Glenn Reynolds of www.instapundit.com comments:

"BUT DON’T WORRY, THEY’LL DO FINE WITH HEALTHCARE”

Our government can't even run the Post Office so as to break even (Of course FedEx/UPS are obviously absolute faillures), keep Medicare/Medicaid on budget, or make the VA at all efficient. But don't worry, they'll do just fine with health care.