CNN says veteran protest all about money

It’s a bit more then money. It’s about orders to the National Park Service to close everything, even monuments that are not patrolled by the Park Service. It’s about World War II veterans having to cut their way through barriers in order to see their monument. For some of those veterans, one chance is all they will have. And it’s about Vietnam veterans escorted from their monument because they dared bypass barriers. The only reason we haven’t had World War I veterans cutting through barriers is that the Park Service got lucky. There are no living veterans from that war.

The last paragraph of the CNN story: “The House has passed a bill to fund the VA as part of its strategy to finance the politically popular and necessary parts of the government in a piecemeal approach. The Senate has not voted on that bill because Democrats argue the whole government should be re-opened.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/12/veterans-groups-to-push-to-end-government-shutdown/?hpt=hp_c2

That reads “Republican strategy is to pay for popular and necessary parts of government.” Democrats argue we should also pay for unpopular and unnecessary parts of government.