Why say 'America' and not 'Congress'? Congressional, as well as State Legislators, are the employee's of the people, they are hired to represent all in their districts and not political parties nor political ideologies especially on the issues that involve the whole country and the responsibilities of!!
"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to reverse the CBO ruling and build the clinics. House Speaker John Boehner wants to study alternate ways of financing the clinics.
How about that, one of the lead rubber stampers of the war costs, no bid contracts and building an expensive merc private army, rubber stamping tax cuts as well, wants to study alternatives for funding the care of those that served the country in two long run war theaters, I'm sure his political party brothers and sisters in the Senate want same, after rubber stamping the abandoning of the missions we sent our military into that region to accomplish after 9/11!
War veterans struggle to find care
July 31, 2013 - Twenty seven VA clinics that were supposed to serve 340,000 veterans have been put on hold because of a disagreement over accounting. Most of those veterans live in rural areas where no clinic often means no care. Wyatt Andrews reports.
Rachel Maddow: "We got a huge round of tax cuts in this country a few weeks before9/11. Once 9/11 happened and we invaded Afghanistan, we kept the tax cuts anyway.
How did we think we were going to pay for that war? Did we think it was free?
Then, when we started a second simultaneous war in another country, we gave ourselves a second huge round of tax cuts. After that second war started. The wars, I guess, we thought would be free, don`t worry about it, civilians. Go about your business." 23 May 2013
Accounting disagreement halts clinic care for vets
These Veterans' Administration Health Care RV's were only meant to be temporary, and at certain times an added ability in service in traveling to selected areas, as the need for care rose from these two present wars and the veterans' of. They being added to the previous service and wars to our veterans' community, swelling the ranks quickly in the now decades long, especially this past decade plus, under funded VA agency with often ignored veterans issues. Many of those issues are now finally being addressed in this Administration and with help from the Executive Administration and it's Cabinet.
July 31, 2013 - As far as the government is concerned, the war in Iraq is over. Afghanistan is winding down. But the battle is not over for nearly a million veterans of those two wars who receive treatment at VA facilities. The problem is there aren't nearly enough clinics.
Deron Santiny is an Iraq War veteran who resents what he calls the "camper": a 30-foot RV in a Lake Charles, Louisiana parking lot which the Veterans Administration uses as a clinic. It has one primary care doctor but no specialist.
So what does Santiny think about the RV?
"I think it's pretty pathetic," he said. "Because you have guys that live here, fought for their country, did everything that was asked of them. And they come back and get seen in a mobile home."
Santiny needs specialty care for the brain injuries he suffered in an IED explosion. But those VA doctors are either a 90-minute drive away in Alexandria, La., or three hours away in Houston, Texas. read more>>>
“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013
WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!