Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Where's the VA Money, Kay?
An opinion piece by Dave Fisher, a disabled veteran from Waco: VA chief mute on unbelievable claim.
All is not Oreos and milk, as you are being led to believe.
My question: Secretary Nicholson, where did you actually spend that money? Out of a $36.6 billion health care budget line item, the question is about $2.8 billion for vets’ mental health care. Where is it?
We veterans, as the sorry record shows, did not receive what was desperately needed in Waco.
Communications with Waco’s sister psychiatric hospital in Canandaigua, N.Y., show it didn’t either.
Further examination of VA budget information that I have, but which wasn’t easy to get, indicates a recurring bleeding off of veterans medical care funds.
Medical care took the biggest hit in proportion to an already inadequate VA budget under VA Secretary Anthony Principi. Small wonder he quit.
Waco is living proof of this.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Sen. John Cornyn had to know what was going on all this time. Yet they presented themselves as veterans’ champions in every dog and pony show down at Waco VA.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Kay Named to Commerce Subcommittee
According to TVTechnology.com, Sen. Hutchison was named to the Science, Technology, and Innovation subcommittee of the Commerce Committee, now chaired by Democrat John Kerry.
