The Smarter Darren Bernard

Reptilian conservatives electing to spend money on more taxcuts and more Eye-Rack rather than to spend this government-scale pittance to support our troops: priceless

A proposal to keep seriously wounded vets from falling through the cracks of the bureaucracy was shelved in 2005 when Jim Nicholson took over as the secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, according to the former VA employee who was responsible for tracking war casualties.

As a result, seriously wounded veterans continued to face long delays for health care and benefit payments after being discharged from the military, says former VA program manager Paul Sullivan.

The program, called the Contingency Tracking System, had been approved by Nicholson's predecessor but died once Nicholson took over the VA, Sullivan told ABC News.

Sullivan said he was told the cost of the system -- less than $1 million to build and requiring a handful of staff to maintain -- was prohibitive.

And to think, there are at least three separate investigations, one from Congress, the Inspector General and another presidential "blue ribbon commission" that were ordered to find out what is already known: Republicans fucked up, big time.

(Via TPMmuckraker)