Seems to me that the VA should embrace veterans, not treat them with such disregard that all who served since Viet Nam would be subject to possible identity theft.
Seems to me that public service has become, for far too many, a pocket lining exercise:
Tom DeLay, the former Republican House leader and once one of the most powerful politicians in Washington, stepped down from Congress and resigned his seat after becoming embroiled in the Abramoff scandal.
Two of his former aides and a former aide to Ohio Republican Rep Bob Ney have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate in the investigation of a conspiracy to bribe members of Congress in return for legislative favors.
David Safavian, the former chief of staff at the General Services Administration -- the agency that manages property for the federal government -- has been charged with lying and obstructing investigations into his relationship with Abramoff and their 2002 golf outing to Scotland that was funded by the lobbyist.
Seems to me that Louisianna representative William Jefferson, caught accepting a bribe, should be drummed out of his job. It's said he was filmed taking $100,000 in alleged bribe money out of an FBI informant's car. Later, the money wrapped in aluminum foil is found in his freezer -- but he then claims he did nothing wrong!
Fannie Mae, one of the financial backbones of the U.S. housing market, doctored its earnings for six years so top executives could collect hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, the company's federal regulator said Tuesday.
An AP-Ipsos poll conducted at the beginning of this month showed a 71 percent disapproved of the way Congress is handling its job, while only 25 percent of those surveyed approved. Call me cynical. Let's throw everyone out and start over.
Term limits. Ethics. We have a war on terror, a war on drugs. Let's have a war on corruption!
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