going to make up for this hacking away at veterans pensions. it s an absurd premise. you know, there is a law in place that all governmental departments or department of defense is supposed to be audited every year that was put in place back in 1996, that is not happening. that s where you are saying there is that $8 trillion that hasn t really been held accountable for that we don t know where that money has been spent; is that right? absolutely. and there is, you know, the money that you are talking about, that hagel was jumping up and down over is about 20 billion. that s a lot of money. but it s really a drop in the budget bucket if you will. and there are other places to get the money. okay. there is a $400 billion welfare slils of the budget. even in this bill that they signed yesterday, they cut the veterans pensions but they left $4.2 billion for illegal alien tax credits? i mean, how does that make sense? foreign aid, $50 billion the country like afghanistan,