What Goes Around, Comes Around
National Review Online has a short, but good, article detailing how the POTUS has played politics with VA medical care over the years – and how his administration would “fix things”. IMO, It’s worth a look.
Petard, own, hoist. That kind of thing.
Update: Well, so much for the “we didn’t know that this might be an issue” argument. Apparently the current Administration’s transition team was briefed that this could be an issue 5 1/2 years ago – in late 2008. So if they haven’t been monitoring it, I’d certainly like to know why the hell not.
Category: Politics, Veteran Health Care, Veterans Issues, Veterans' Affairs Department
It’s obvious that B. Hussein 0bama & Company give illegal aliens and welfare flunkies a far higher priority than us Vets who served an earned what was promised.
They are a larger voting bloc than us veterans and make a hell of a lot more noise than we do. Plus, the tend to vote for the hand that feds them (Dems), so the get preferential treatment. At least as long as they’re needed in the voting booth.
Anyone who hasn’t tuned in since 2008 to Obama-AM&FM, “all the best fuck ups you love to hear”, has missed the boat. Obama and his lap dogs at the DoD and VA and all across his administration, could care less about veterans and whether they live or die. In battle or at the hands of the VA. That is the sad, sad truth of him and his minions. They care about staying in power, as all politicians do and that means getting the votes. The votes they need do not come from veterans. They come from the ill-informed, near illiterate, out of touch, self absorbed Americans and the standing in line for their hand outs population, period. Obama would glad hand a vet in need of VA services in the Oval Office, tell him all the bullshit he can think of and all the while be slipping his dagger out and slide it into the man’s back. Of course, after the photo op and Carney’s big speech to the press about it. The vet would get moved to the front of the line by executive power and dealt with. That is if they haven’t already lost or otherwise screwed up his records. Because unless Obama is standing behind that counter at the VA check-in, the vet will be facing the same, give a shit, VA front office staff as always. I read the article Hondo referenced. It is an absolute shame things have been allowed to deteriorate as far as they have under the current VA leadership since Obama came into power. Whatever the fix for this is, it will be long and expensive. More VA dollars to fix the problem which are needed by the veterans. God bless all of you who are under the VA’s care. I wish, hope and pray the very best for each of you.
The deal with Obama has always been that he can talk a great game. He seldom delivers on the talk however…veterans, ACA, respect of foreign leaders, the promise of a new America with renewed energy changing the future all sounded so good…and now, well now we have 6 years of stagnation and zero leadership.
A little more help from Obama for the coal industry and we’ll be all done using coal and screwed on the requirements of almost 10% of the grid. He’s done a bangup job everywhere he or his administration touches something.
“(W)e’ll be all done using coal and screwed on the requirements of almost 10% of the grid.” Of course, but we’ll have the luxury of moral superiority while we shiver in darkness during the rolling blackouts.
Watching all the news on secret waiting lists and gross mismanagement of by the VA administration just pisses me off. It is good that the truth or some version of it is finally getting out to the MSM but it still will not help much.
In my case I was medically retired roughly 23 months ago. The VA rep who processed my paperwork for the initial eval screwed it up so badly the base (in California)”fired” her. Her replacement (who had worked the approval side of VA claims)called me in to talk. He freely admitted that my paperwork was screwed up and I should have received a higher disability rating for a prosthetic disc in my back and additional back issues. But since it was the VA and on-going I would have to appeal at a later date.
I finally got my paperwork lined up and sent into the VA in Texas where I currently reiside. I was politely told it could take up three years to receive any decision on my appeal. So I asked the obvious about retro-active pay for a higher rating. The rep told me it would be a date the was benificial to the VA. I did the math and if it takes them three years to process my appeal I was looking at close to $64K in back pay tax free. But now I am expecting nothing so as not to get my hopes up. So hearing about the VA spending $500M on furniture, bonuses and redecorating is so frustrating. As much as I want my kids to serve I have to honestly think about pushing them on another career path.
Well, when you have someone ‘in charge’ (used loosely) with a GAF/GAS attitude about anything other than photo ops and how he looks in a suit, this is what you get.
Someone this level of incompetence in the real world, the private sector, would most likely be let go. Since he has not actuallyu committed a crime, like some of his predecessors, he’s hard to get rid of. And the lady-in-waiting is now fair game, over what she did/said, as well as her age.
Shit I Learned In The Army
There are two kinds of people in the world, them what give a shit and them what don’t. Anything of value is done by people who care about other people, care about their reputation, and care if they do a good job. Given sufficient mistreatment, a person in the GAS group can move into the DGAS group. People in the DGAS group rarely move into the GAS group.
Hence we have rules to prevent DGAS E3s from hanging around until they get their 30. There is a third group sometimes called the FU group … I think our buddy Bateman belongs.