U.S. senators, staff and other lawmakers inspect the new Veterans Affairs hospital construction site in Aurora last Friday. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
Re: “Senators, VA official clash over Aurora hospital at hearing,” April 25 news story.
Pictured on the front page of Saturday’s Denver Post was a gaggle of U.S. senators touring the half-finished Veterans Affairs hospital in Aurora and demanding a more thorough investigation with accountability. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut stated, “The people responsible for the financial catastrophe here need to be held accountable.”
Too bad this earnestness for accountability and head rolling wasn’t applied to the major banks and financial companies on Wall Street responsible for the financial crisis causing hundreds of billions, maybe trillions, of dollars of the world’s wealth to be destroyed.
I am not saying that there shouldn’t be an investigation here, but why does it always seem to be that those involved in the service of others, in this case those serving our nation’s veterans, are more vulnerable to scrutiny and demands for justice than those who really pull the purse strings in the country, and who appear to get away with wrist slaps?
Karen Hill,Denver
This letter was published in the April 29 edition.
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