want to be patriotic?

Then take care of the veterans:
'It Is Just Not Walter Reed' - washingtonpost.com

The United States is supposed to be the world's superpower, the best country on earth, and then I read this:
"Among the most aggrieved are veterans who have lived with the open secret of substandard, underfunded care in the 154 VA hospitals and hundreds of community health centers around the country. They vented their fury in thousands of e-mails and phone calls and in chat rooms."

Let's have a "surge" in funding to take care of our veterans. They have all served, so that we may sit here today.