Do Congress and the President Support Our Wounded Troops and Their Families?

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Take the Following Quiz and You Decide if Congress and Our President Support our Troops:

A Marine loses their eyesight in a bomb blast in Afghanistan . After they receive a medical discharge they need blind rehabilitation from the Veterans Administration. How does that work?:

  1. They go to the local VA hospital and work with a Blind Rehabilitation Specialist. Every VA hospital has a Blind Rehabilitation Specialist.
  2. They go to closest medical center, civilian or VA, with a blind rehabilitation program.
  3. Their local VA hospital may not have a blind rehabilitation specialist so the blinded veteran may have to fly to another city.

Correct answer is 3!
 
To add 70 Blind Rehabilitation Specialists to make sure each VA hospital has a blind rehab specialist to provide ongoing support to our blinded troops and their families would cost?:

  1. $34 billion a year
  2. $2 billion a year
  3. Just $7 million a year or less than 2 minutes of federal spending…

     

Correct answer is 3!
 
A young Soldier or Marine loses both legs in combat. The Veteran’s Adminstration is supposed to buy a new wheelchair adapted van for this wounded hero. The VA adapted vehicle benefit is:

  1. $120,000, which can be used over more than one vehicle and this amount increases each year to keep up with inflation.
  2. $80,000, which can be used on just one car and this amount increases each year to keep up with inflation.
  3. $11,000. This amount can be used once and does not increase with inflation. Families of wounded troops pay for the van or ask community groups to host fundraisers.

Correct answer is 3!

A soldier or Marines gets killed in combat . How much is the federal death benefit for troops killed in action?:

  1. $1.2 million dollars to match the average federal government death benefit for families of civilians killed in 9/11 attack.
  2. $283,500 to match the death benefit the federal government gives to families of local police officers killed in line of duty.
  3. $100,000.


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