Why isn't/wasn't there more outrage over Walter Reed?

Question

We hear so much daily about how important it is to support our troops... but when it really comes down to it, do we really care? Our troops should be returning home to 2000 count sheets, and bedpans made of platinum, but instead they are coming home amputee's greeted by rodents and subpar medical facilities. Where is the outrage?

Answer 1

This isn't about 'supporting the troops' (I am utterly against the war, BTW), it's about socialised medicine. Walter Reed is a government hospital, despite the handy exploitation of contracts to make things appear 'privatised'. Privatisation is NOT capitalism, it's a euphemism for politicians to mean "you run it, but we control it".
What's chilling is that all hospitals (except those reserved for the political elite) could end up like Walter Reed. Fulfill the well-meaning delusions of dupes who call for "free" health care and doctors will be slaves; their patients, prisoners.

Answer 2

Because one out patient building at one military medical facility that is scheduled to be closed due to the BRAC in 1995 is not representative of the system as a whole. There are procedural and paperwork bureaucracy problems, always have been and probably always will be, but the care is top notch and leading edge.

Edit: For cantcu below, official government budget shows a $250 million increase in VA spending. Not nearly enough, but not a cut.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/pdf/hist.pdf

Answer 3

Because all the concern about veterans, and support is total BS! America has never supported her veterans, and about 99.9% will be having a cookout, getting drunk when on Memorial Day they should do something to at least acknowledged the kids who died for this country. Why I will never know!

Have you heard any outrage over Bush cutting VA hospitals in 2006 by $100 BILLION (while VA is trying to treat 105,000 Iraqi Vets) and, at the same time, giving tax cuts to those who average between $880, 030 and 26.4 MILLION a year? I haven't! You know why, they really don't care as long as it isn't them going home in a body bag or picking up pieces of their friends!

You will find no outrage from any Republican for the war! They don't care about other peoples kids dieing!

Answer 4

Because the news media blew the issue way out of proportion and dropped it when the truth came out and demonstrated that they were wrong.

If the media had to talk about Walter Reed they would have to admit that they presented a misleading story - so simply refuse to talk about it.

Answer 5

I support the troops by hoping they'll win their battles, instead of undermining them by encouraging the enemy. I can't do anything about their hospital conditions, but I don't try to put them in hospitals by cheering the terrorists by saying we've already lost.

Answer 6

Outrage? Why is there no outrage whatsoever about Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton getting no bid contracts to perform daily activites for the army, which it used to do for itself at 10% of the cost?

oh, I could go on - - but the answer to your question is that they mostly try and draft poorly educated folk who don't know enuf to complain... and the country is complacent... and the media and politicians, not doing much of a job..

Answer 7

Government and military cover up.
Just like everyday you hear about Iraq "Progress is being made".
Most of the pictures of the conditions were never shown. Military solution is to fire one Commander and appoint another, solution fixed and splash some more paint around to cover it up.

Answer 8

maybe that big oil CEO will donate one of his 72 billion retirement package to get them sheets and bedpans?

Answer 9

new stuff to be piss*d off about