This problem was first really brought out in the open by a writer for Newsweek magazine in the mid 90's mulitple times.No one paid any attention then as always.Yes this administration set stuff up that did not work well.Hell it was under funded from the beginning and is also nothing but another bureacracy.What did we expect?It is been a known fact for some time even before the mid 90's that this was apotential disaster waiting to happen.Politics is the reason why things did not get done.All I am saying is that we wont get anything done by slinging mud at each other.the Ploiticians love this because the focus is off them and the broken system that they perpetuate on both sides of the isle.There is always plenty of Pork Barrel to go around but never enough funds for the things that really need attention.Let me give you one example.
I am a Vietnam Veteran so I speak from first hand experience on this topic.This country keeps telling the Veterans how much they appreciate their efforts and all the lives that have been lost in all the different wars most of which could have been avoided if politics stayed out of the equation.Anyway the VA health care system has never been funded as a line item,it has alwasy been funded by what is termed discetionary funds.What this means is that at the whim of whomever ,the system will be funded at whatever level is decided basedon God knows what.This past year there was alot of funds cut out of an already underfunded system.Do you know what one of the main items to be cut was?It was for artificial limbs.When we have all these poor Vets comong back from the war in Iraq they cut funding for prosthesis.I have herd nothing yet on this site or any other other than the Diabled American Veterans site even say a word about this.Why?Someone please tell me why the veterans who are of every race we have in this country are discriminated against.Is that the fault of President Bush?Do people think he is for Genocide of our Veterans.Let me tell you why nothing ever gets done about anything.People don't want to be bothered that is why.Did anyone here even know anything about what I am telling you now.If not why?The point I am trying to make is that we are the only ones who can help the system get fixed.The way we can do this is with open and honest dialogue without the mud slinging.The DAV by the way has a excellent web site and they make it very easy for people to send letters to their Representatives.I would like to see a site that had the goal of trying to really do something about all the problems we have here in the good old USA.I can go on about many other problems that are at the crisis point and have been through many administrations.mississippitom