Larry -
Looks like the "fix" is already in, eh?
This is the kind of thing that I start thinking of when some of us begin defending the upper classes who get big tax breaks, refunds and unfettered government contracts, on top of these other side deals that get made which primarily benefit them or their corporations, all legally nicely instrumented by Congress in perpetuity or until the winds of change shift another time in coming years... practically impossible to stop or even modify once put into law. I know a person is not supposed to even think the word "conspiracy", but dang if I can come up with a better term for it. It's purposeful, it's aimed to serve only a certain few, and it is knowingly going to harm people who cannot defend themselves and who depend on that income at the age where it is most needed. There are times when, frankly, I do not give a crap whether shareholders get the "maximum return on their investment", nor that all costs of doing business MUST be "passed along to the consumer". Not if they're gonna treat the defenseless this way...
Meanwhile, for the time a GI spends in hospital from a combat zone, he gets charged for his food to "reimburse" the government for his per diem...
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