Rep. Steve Buyer is the former
Republican Chairman of the House
Veterans Affairs Committee.
Rep. Bob Filner is now the new
Democrat Chairman, and both
the Minority and Majority chairs
have to work together in these
sessions.

Having attended the VDBC Commission
hearing at the House and seen
both of them in action right
in the room, I can tell you that
Buyer is by far the guy with
more spirit and personality. He
is outgoing and charismatic and
if he wasn't such a LunkHead on
issues, then he would actually be
the guy that all Veterans would
like to go to.

Bob Filner is dry, Parrot-Headed,
caught up in Blowhard, doesn't want
to hear from the Stakeholders on
Oppositions, and in the end, he
falls flat in procedings and
doesn't come across as the kind
of guy who really "gets it" about
what is going on at the VA.

Buyer, on the other hand, was
lead guy since the year 2003
when I first came into the Fort
McClellan advocacy issue, so I
have a little accumulated experience
with this House Committee under
him extended over a period of
time.

Steve Buyers office and Steve
Buyer's people have been told
directly one million times the
simple explanation of what is
causing the VA backlog crisis.

The VA Raters are not required
to be medical practitioners themselves,
and are then allowed to "rewrite"
or "falsify" the findings of other
practitioner documents submitted
by the Veterans as evidence. It
is a relentless wheel-spinning
GAME of evidence
out here that the VA Raters simply
refuse to shut up and sit down
on what it is that the Veterans
submit. I have yet to send in a
single claim with all of the
evidence papers tied to that part
of the claim, and then have each
and every evidence paper come
back to me, spoken on truthfully
and accurately without it NOT
being rewritten into something
else that is not even true.

At times it seems that the VA
Raters are even arguing with me
whether or not I even served in
the Army.

We have told Buyer one million
times that this very process of
"rewriting" teeters on Identity
Theft from the Veteran.
It is intended to rewrite their entire
lifetime over and then deny the claim
based on their own rewriting of falsities.

We have contended this is NOT
a "training" issue, but a conspiracy
scheme, willfully designed, deliberate,
and without error --- an organized crime
scheme of falsified documents.

Buyer, on the other hand, has gone
around telling everyone in Washington
that the VA Rater crisis is a "training"
issue. This was very much in the wind
BEFORE the Veterans Disability Benefits
Commission came into authority.

The truth is, Steve Buyer is either
suffering from a mental problem OR
is in political denial to get the blame
off his own back that the VA Raters
really ARE involved in a deliberate
scheme.

Recently DAV testified before the Senate
Veterans Affairs Committee regarding
the operations of the Court of Veterans
Appeals like this:
In 1990, the number of cases denied was 62%.
In 1992, the number of cases denied was 33%.
In 2007, the number of cases denied was 21%.


Unfortunately DAV used this numerical
profile to legitamize, validate, and
put nails into the coffin of allowing
the VA to continue "litigating" the
disability claims of medical patients.
This was a serious bungle and NOT
in the best interest of Veterans.

I will now be taking this numerical
profile and sticking it back in their
faces to show that there is still
a backlog not yet seen both at
VARO and BVA by the Court, and in
those cases (including my own) lies
a much higher denial rate, and that
even with the profile that DAV has
issued right now, there is STILL
a 21% document falsification rate
coming out of these 2 lower operations.

The question also becomes why oh
why is the VA Office of General
Counsel (who staffs and oversees
the BVA Judges), allowed to operate
so corruptly and incompetently ??

The whole time they were doing
this at the VA addresses, Steve
Buyer and his Parrot-Head Squad
at the House Committee was going
around and telling all of Washington
and posting on the official Committee
website about how WONDERFUL a job
the VA was doing on it's claims
backlog. Yeah Right, you LunkHead !!

While they never would issue the priority
to relieve the backlog PRIOR to the
Iraq War, now that the numbers of
the backlog are rapidly approaching
nearly 1 million of us, now they all
want to pull this CHARADE
that the backlog is caused by the
Iraq War. Well Mr. Buyer......NO it ISN'T !!

It has always been there from day one.
It is YOU Mr. Buyer, who has had
his denial head stuck in the sand
and refusing to probe, investigate,
and prosecute this matter the way
it really should be done.

The recent broadcast of the CNN
report Waging War On The VA has
validated all we have said about
the willful deliberateness of
the VA Raters falsifying disability
ruling documents. 2 of the 3 Veterans
profiled in that CNN report verified
once and for all exactly what
we have been saying on this point.

And the recent numerical profile
issued by DAV to the Senate, also
backs up what we have said on this.
What are bunch of licensed lawyer
judges sitting at the BVA level
doing exactly to crank out a 63%
DENIAL rate of claims when they
first started out ?? And why does
Steve Buyer refuse to get into
their faces and ask this question?

Veterans who have their cases
falsified into
something else, not said by any
military or VA doctor, is a hate-crime
and Veterans who get that in the
mail will APPEAL it for entire
lifetimes until it's right.

It seems to me, that is exactly
what we are all doing out here.

Wake up Steve Buyer --- either
go to counselling for your mental
problem, or get a law book and
start calling this national VA
crisis what it really is.