Vets not supported

Wed., May 21, 2014

I would answer Mikayla Mickelsen (“Veterans deserved better,” May 9) that I’m a Vietnam veteran who begged Congress, on behalf of our troops, many times already. As for others, many with increasingly fewer military friends or relatives, have their own struggle in a declining middle class and therefore don’t contact their congressional representatives on behalf of our troops.

They complain about big government insensitivity while multinational corporations send lobbyists and influence peddlers to bribe our representatives to give them tax breaks and huge subsidies to send our jobs overseas. Our troops’ welfare lacks that level of constituency on Capitol Hill and, so, gets underfunded.

Philip Mulligan

Spokane

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