--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Out of idle curiosity, do you know _anything_ > about > > the VA system? > > I don't know much about what it is now, but the > feeling that I've had is > that it was the hospital system vets could go to if > they were really really > desperate. After WWII, my mom worked there, and she > told stories about a > favorite lobotomy patient. He use to be "the > crackerjack of his outfit," > but had tremendous readjustment problems, so they > gave him a lobotomy to > make him harmless.
> Dan M. The reason I ask is that the VA system is, legendarily, perhaps the most inefficient (and, given what it actually achieves, overfunded) part of the government. Any attempts to do _anything_ with it are, of course, met with the claim that the President is betraying our veterans. So it just gets left alone. The end result is that it's a disaster. If Bush is trying to do something about it - and I can't evaluate his plan - then that's, at least in the abstract, quite impressive. The VA system is probably the #1 target of "good government" reformers, and I wouldn't have guessed that Bush was willing to spend the political capital to reform it. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
