VA shreds claims

You can probably guess the Republicans are in charge when you see stories like this.

The RAND Corporation (a military think tank) says that patients who use the Department of Veterans Affairs get much better and faster care than those who use the broken, greed-driven for-profit health care system that plagues nonveterans. But the Bush regime has been gutting the VA just for the sake of bringing its quality of service down to that of the for-profit system.

The ruling party does this to make a political point. They want everything to be profit-driven. This is why the current regime intentionally didn't hire enough VA doctors and otherwise neglected the VA.

It's a bit like Rick Santorum's mid-decade move to shut down government weather services that "stole" business from for-profit services.

Now - as is to be expected under a malevolent D.C. regime - it's been found that the VA has been shredding important documents regarding the veterans who rely on its services.

At numerous regional VA offices, piles and piles of shredded papers have been unearthed. A probe revealed that they included veterans' disability and compensation benefits claims - as well as veterans' irreplaceable personal documents like their original birth certificates.

"Support our troops" isn't supposed to be just a slogan. For 8 years, the ruling regime has stabbed America's brave men and women in uniform in the back, and the shredding scandal is just the latest example.

Turning its back on the troops is a regime policy. Another example is when party hacks callously claimed post-traumatic stress disorder is a hoax by veterans gaming the system. Still another is when the government began making soldiers pay back their enlistment bonuses if they get wounded.

Right-wing backstabbers are running the country, and it shows.

(Source: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/10/military_va_stopshredding_101608w/)