LTE: Mandate leaders see VA Hospitals

In a Friday 'Letter to the Editor' (LTE) in the SI Advance, a writer suggests requiring the President and Congress to tour VA Hospitals to see what cutting costs is doing;

It should be mandated that before a decision is made, the president and congressional members visit veterans hospitals and other care facilities, to see the physically and emotionally maimed individuals that were involved in a war that was not supposed to be one. The horror of those memories will stay with them forever.

Read the full letter here.

LTE: Are we better off?

In a Friday 'Letter to the Editor' (LTE) in the SI Advance, the writer poses the question President Reagan once asked, are you (we) better off now than you were seven years ago.

Look, if you're cutting taxes for the benefit of your real constituents, the top 5 percent of the country's wealthy, something has to give -- like the Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Emergency Management Agency, air and port security, air and water quality, health care and Social Security.

Read the whole piece here.