On Pork and Walter Reed

[Annie]

Corruption has it's price, in this case it seems the Vets are paying more than their share. As more comes to light, the politicians should pay the price from the voters.

http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/008068.html

Lots more at site, including links:

Getting Porked ('07)
Greyhawk

The just-released "2007 Pig Book" from the group Citizens Against Government Waste should be a bit embarrassing (it definitely would be, in a sane world) to congress members loudly bemoaning the treatment of troops at Walter Reed.

While un-armored Iraq and Afghanistan vets battled rats in their Washington hospital rooms, congress generously funded numerous medical research projects in the defense budget last year:

$59,000,000 for medical research projects ranging from cancer to diabetes to gynecological disease. As important as this research may be, there is no mention as to why these programs should receive money from the Department of Defense. One program which weighs heavily on taxpayers in this category is $1.35 million for the “Obesity in the Military Research Program.”

Perhaps they can replace the Burger Kings on every military installation with Tofu Huts...