Wounded Heroes Charged for Treatment?? REALLY?

I hope that my wife doesn't get too mad at me about this post. I promised her a travel blog, not a political commentary, but this I couldn't pass up.

Please excuse the links, but I wanted to make sure that everyone was provided with a fair and balanced amount of information. NYT, Yahoo, Foxnews, CBS, Youtube, and a few blogs. (Spoiler alert, this post has nothing to do with travel.)

http://ourvoice.legion.org/story/1448/legion-white-house-dont-bill-our-heroes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090316/pl_usnw/the_american_legion_strongly_opposed_to_president_s_plan_to_charge_wounded_heroes_for_treatment

I just thought that people ought to know more about this. Nothing on the nightly news. Radio doesn’t talk about it. But this is where the country is heading under the current administration. No matter what your political affiliation, these men and women are the reason that we have the everyday freedoms that we enjoy. Are we once again (Viet-Nam) willing to kick them to the street? Are you willing to allow the individuals that are fighting for YOUR freedoms to end up panhandling on the side of a highway to make sure that they can afford the deductibles that private insurance companies have? And this after the administration signs in bills that provide medical insurance for children that are already covered, favorable policy to help unions maintain their leverage over struggling businesses, and approx $800 BILLION in stimulus that a large amount of the US didn’t agree with.

Oh and by the way, while this is going on, the speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi's most news worthy priority is trying to save her local newspaper that hasn’t been able to keep up with the changing times or technology.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/16/MNIA16GCBO.DTL

Or worried about her travel arrangements.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/10/study-pelosi-repeated-requests-military-aircraft/

Or, not worrying about the facts, (FYI, there are only 300 million Americans)

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042009/news/politics/pelosis_500_million_person_slip_153530.htm

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/02/04/will-media-report-pelosis-claim-500-million-lose-jobs-each-month

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hMJVXt09E

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87978

Sorry for the political commentary on a travel blog, but I got so fired up by the first article that I couldn’t really think of anything travel wise to write. I promise I will make it up to everyone in the next couple of days.