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* VA and DoD should monitor and report on the positive post-combat, post-deployment, and post-military outcomes of our veterans. For example, new businesses started by cheap tiffany key ring, higher wages earned by veterans, diplomas earned by veterans, increased homeownership among veterans, and other signs of a vibrant post-war adjustment to civilian life.

* VCS provides additional examples of the cost of war at the end of our statement. The important statistics were summarized by reporters in the article, "The Numbers," published last weekend by the Fayetteville Observer.

Part Two: Need for Trust Fund and National Plan

VCS believes cheap tiffany money clip must learn from the past so we do not repeat mistakes. VCS endorses the Vietnam Veterans of America, when they remind us that, "Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another." This is why Veterans for Common Sense fully endorses the proposal by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz to create a Trust Fund to make sure our veterans receive the healthcare and benefits they earned.

As a non-profit advocacy organization, VCS uses the Freedom of Information Act to obtain data from DoD and VA to monitor and publicize the needs of our veterans. VCS was honored to provide our data to Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz for their book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (2008). In their ground-breaking cheap tiffany necklace on the subject of the cost of war, Bilmes and Stiglitz called for the creation of "A Veterans Benefit Trust Fund . . . so that veterans' health and disability entitlements are fully funded as obligations occur." In their book, the experts stated:

There are always pressures to cut unfunded entitlements. So, when new military recruits are hired, the money required to fund future health care and disability benefits should be set aside ("lockboxed") in a new Veterans Benefit Trust Fund. We require private employers to do this; we should require the armed forces to do it as cheap tiffany pendant. This would mean, of course, that when we go to war, we have to set aside far large amounts for future health care and disability costs, as these will inevitably rise significantly during and after any conflict ("Reform 12," page 200).

The issue of establishing a Trust Fund is timely because we have now endured nine years of war in Afghanistan, and seven years of conflict in Iraq. In 1995, Congress was forced to intervene and appropriate $3 billion in emergency funding for VA. One of the main reasons cited by VA for the funding crisis was the unexpected and unanticipated flood of Iraq and cheap tiffany ring war veterans. Thanks to the strong pro-veteran leadership of Senator Patty Murray, the daughter of a war veteran, VA was given additional resources to meet the tidal wave of new, first-time Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran patients flooding into VA.