Friday, April 28, 2006

FEMA & VA: Fail those dependent upon

The Senate Homeland Security Comm says that FEMA has become a symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy, complete mismanagement and waste, and should be abolished. It appears that the VA may be headed in that same abolishment direction, as the VA is now run by a former Repub Natl Committeeman, and has been subjected to the same radical hatcheting that the WH has tried to wield against the rest of America's safety nets. Why? B/c the Bush administration and supporters like the Heritage Foundation and anti-tax radical Grover Norquist secretly like to think of the medical care of veterans as another form of welfare to be slashed. The effects? Troops wounded in Iraq/ Afghanistan are being harassed by the fedrl government and its debt collectors b/c the military is not taking care of our troops. At a Capitol Hill hearing Thurs, angry troops describe a bureaucracy that can't keep track of their pay, and after leaving the service, facing endless collection notices and ruined credit ratings. seems to me the common thread in both bureaucracies is incompetence and disregard for the human costs.
Posted by Tina :: 12:16 AM :: 2 Comments:

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