Jun, 29, 2008
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Contact Congress with concern over cuts
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THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
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A recent front page story in The Bellingham Herald from the Associated Press warned that hundreds of thousands of seniors in Washington will be losing enough of their Medicare benefits to make them ineligible for visits to their primary care physicians.
That loss also includes those seniors who rely on the TRICARE system through their VA benefits, which my own mother happens to use.
Am I making too much of a leap to assume that the $10,000 per minute that we are spending on the war in Iraq might somehow be partly responsible for the further erosion of health and welfare services here at home?
We are underfunding schools, health care and infrastructure to fund a war that was initiated under false pretenses.
How much longer will we, as a citizenry, abide the chipping away of our social and intellectual welfare?
We must resist a leadership team in the White House that funds a war with one hand, and refuses to support injured returning vets and their families on the other. There obviously is no limit to the obliviousness of this administration to human need and suffering.
The time has come for all Washington voters to contact their congressional and senatorial representatives regarding their concerns.
Teresa Van Haalen
Bellingham
