Try to hold on to a little perspective
Do you really think that "proving" that the VA's budget is larger than it used to be is at all relevant to the question of whether veterans are getting the treatment that they deserve? If the budget needs to be doubled then it needs to be doubled, and Bush gets no point for year-over-year increase of only about 10%. In the real world budgets are based on need, not getting bar graphs to line up into a pretty curve.