them a ticker tape parade? o new york city councilmen have formally requested a parade but no word yet from new york city s mayor. mayor bloomberg appears on a radio show every week, responds directly to new yorkers who call in questions. today, he used twitter to solicit questions he will answer on the radio todmorrow and it ws tweeted what do you think of the idea of a welcome home ticker tape parade for iraq in nyc? the troops from this american war get a ticker tape ride down the canyon of here snows i would go and so would everybody i know. thanks to paul wry cough, that question is openly publicly respectfully in play, a simple suggestion from an iraq vet. best new thing in the world today that does it for us tonight. now time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, tonight with melissa harris-perry. have a great night. quick game of word association, boehner, fold.
october and december didn t get through. so the va has to do better there and they have to reform the way they do bureaucracy across-the-board. we will be fighting for disability reform all next week, cutting through that red tape and making sure our veterans get the benefits they deserve. do you think it is a lack of manpower in the va, infrastructure in the military to deal with the influx of veterans coming home? is that it? manpower is one part of it ed, but also about innovation. they have really got an antiquated, outdated system at the va right now not a lot different from when guys came home from vietnam. so if you are putting in a disability claim right now, you are probably going to wait about 161 days. if you appeal that claim it is going to be two years. so, we are bringing veterans from all over the cup, as you mentioned, here to washington to fight to change that push for disability reform. folks are watching, they can help us by going to storm the hill.org. they can
and finally tonight, president obama has promised tone the wars in iraq and afghanistan and bring the troops home over time. but the organization, iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, says the administration also needs to focus on helping them when they come back here to the united states. and veterans from around the country are heading to washington this weekend to fight for reform. joining me now is the executive director of the iava, paul wry cough, paul, great to have you with us tonight. when i hear the word reform, i thought we passed a gism bill in this country. what s happening with that? we did ed, but there is still major problems. veterans are experiencing a lot of confusion trying to utilize that gi bill. the va was caught flat footed here, caught up now and worked on fixing it but 90% of the phone calls that went to the va s gi bill hotline between