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!!
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.
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
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>>>
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