I'm beginning to wonder who's running the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Murray sounds almost as bad as Burr, the stop appointment for absolutely no reason of a VA administrator requested by the new administration only a few years back, she keeps showing that so called conservative ideology side!
When the Reed fiasco broke it was already after a number of years in these two present conflicts and coming on the heels of total control of all of DC by the tepublicans who were rubber stamping the many other costs of wars of choice but military and veterans care along with a few others, like armor in theater and base housing in the states.
Many came out sheepishly stating that Reed was closing soon so why put more funds into it's upkeep, and more, all the time knowing that was a main destination for wounded soldiers of these and our other theaters of occupations of others.
Congress never Demanded, and the american people still haven't, the Sacrifice of the country for the results of these two wars, DeJa-Vu ours, Vietnam, and the Korean conflict, now over a decade and counting.
It's oh so easy to point fingers at the Agencies which Are Suppose To Be Properly Funded By The American People, but for decades haven't been, instead of looking in the mirrors. The House has already once again tried defunding programs for the VA just as the new leadership within is trying to correct that decades lack of funding on a number of issues but especially related now to our new brother and sister veterans that should have been done as the country once again cheered of wars of choice.
It's cheaper, and more fun, having magnetic ribbons, lapel flag pins and laughing about 'purple heart bandages', Vietnam Navy In-Country '70-'71 GMG3 last of my four!
The VA and Military Care is the Countries Responsibility, and representatives trying to make political points blaming others just don't fly, especially after the previous decade, and still ongoing, of false patriotism meme's!
May 18, 2011 - Four years after a scandal exposed shortcomings in the treatment of America's wounded soldiers, top officials with the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs sought to assure Congress on Wednesday that vast improvements have been made. But it was a tough sell.
Democrat Patty Murray of Washington state, the chairwoman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, said the U.S. must step up its care for wounded soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including those most at risk of suicide and the 409 who've had limbs amputated.
"After a decade of continuous conflict, I am concerned that the nation is becoming desensitized to the physical and psychological wounds of war," Murray said. "While those watching on the nightly news may feel as though they have seen many such injuries, we can never forget how truly devastating some of these injuries are, and what an overwhelming impact they have on a service member or veteran's life, as well as on their family."
North Carolina's Richard Burr, the top Republican on the committee, said he was uncertain that much had changed since the scandal at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
"It has been four years since the issues at Walter Reed came to light, and I cannot help but wonder if what we have done is to just create more bureaucracy," Burr said. {continued}
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