It's very hard to be a civilian
and then thrown into a congressional
committee that holds the ruling
authority over the entire VA
system and it's Veterans population.

Even worse, this a widely known
Parrot-Head environment where only
one person talks and all the other
heads lined up and row validate
and confirm what the one person
is saying, without bringing a single
new thought to the table or one
iota of a voice of dissention.

Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite of
Florida enters our hall of salutes
for even giving it a try to defend
us and coming to our rescue.

Although she's a Republican, and we
don't normally find very much good
about the Republicans for sure,
Congresswoman Waite has an aggressive
voice on the side of Veterans at
the House Veterans Affairs Committee
review hearing for the Veterans
Disability Commission's final report
to Congress.

As somebody who sits through government
Blah Blah just about all the time
either at the local or federal levels,
either on Veterans issues or community
neighborhood issues, over time people
like me do develop an ear on
the listening side, for those who really
do "get it" on an issue, and those
who are just flying by the seat of
their pants willing to say any ole
patronizing thing at all just to
get to the lunch hour bell.

Florida Veterans have a friend with
Ginny Brown-Waite. She listens well
to her constituents.

At the Commission House Hearing, she
was the only one on the Veterans Affairs
panel who dared to go where nobody
else would go, on the issue of VARO
ruling documents gone awry. We like
to call them "falsified documents"
here at Vets for Justice, but Rep. Ginny
just said into the official microphone:
" I wonder if the VA Raters at any
time, even bothers to read what they
themselves have written in some of these
ruling documents." As the Ranking member
over the House Oversight and Investigations
Committee, she has since followed up with
and posted a web page at the Veterans
Affairs Comte. website, that she has
called in the Institute of Defense Analysis
and received their recommendations
for the standardization of claims
ruling documents by VA Raters.

I had personally entered an Opposition
to one of the statistical studies conducted
by the IDA when they appeared before the
Veterans Disability Commission, but that
study was not ordered by the Commission
and they felt they were limited in power
to take issue on the IDA flaws.

But even with IDA mistakes in place,
if Congresswoman Waite wishes to Gung-Ho
her way into mandatory standardized
VA ruling documents, then Hey, I'm good
with that. You Go, Girl -- the faster the
better.

This VA Rating system has been incredibly
RIGGED from the time it was born out
of World War II. Some are getting VA ratings
for nothing at all, while severe cases
are dying in their VA Hospital beds
with lifelong relentless denials in their
claims.

Congresswoman Waite really does get it
and she could see through all the Blowhard
and the PTSD muck to step up to the
transcript microphone and make it all
right in Veterans favors, that the
incoherentness and inconsistencies and
outright falsifications of VA ruling
documents by the VA Raters themselves
is a key fail point to fixing the overall
national claims backlog crisis.

Salutes to Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite
of Florida, and please do keep up the
very good work in our name.

http://brown-waite.house.gov/

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