Rather than slashing help, Congress should consider passing a law that would prohibit any further military engagements until all the vets that we are failing get some help, including disability and full employment. How can we be so dismissive of the lives of the people we ask to fight on our behalf? If we're not equipped to handle our military when they return home - and much of the current claims backlog is driven by vets recently returning from Afghanistan and Iraq - we should think twice before sending them in harm's way in the first place.