Isakson must step up on veterans’ issues

The abysmal performance of the VA continues year after year (“VA in 7 states falsified wait time,” News, April 8). We should be ashamed of our government’s treatment of those who serve this country. There is only one thing more abhorrent than the way the veterans are being treated and that is knowing about it and doing little to nothing to fix it. Sen. Isakson is chairman of the Senate Committee on Veteran’s Affairs. You’d think being an experienced legislator and the chair of a committee that he would aggressively push for legislation and a change in VA leadership, top to bottom. Yet proposals appear to languish in his office for months. In the near future, I’m sure we’ll see numerous campaign ads and signs to re-elect Isakson. He’ll have to earn my vote by showing he can be an effective leader, else we might as well try someone else.

New York values are real, but out there

New York values (New York City values) are presented in the political arena from two conflicting perspectives. On one hand, the politically correct crowd insists that there is no such thing as New York values. On the other, the expression is implied as some hideous secret, the mere mention of which should be condemned. As a native New Yorker, relocated locally a couple of decades ago, I assure you that New York values are real. At the heart of these values is the fact that New York is worshipped as the center of the universe, all other places being deficient and unsophisticated. Gun laws are a perfect example. Only cops and crooks know anything about guns, so firearms should be scorned. Next, valid politics is limited to the left. The right are just amateurs. Public corruption is also valid currency. New York Values are quite real. Nuts, but real.