Well for those of you who were
all standing on one foot waiting
for the tidal wave of CHANGE to
come swimming ashores in our direction,
you were sadly disappointed for
the very first year of the all
new Democrat controlled Congress.

Those of us who already knew
it would be more of the same,
just yawned and walked away
saying "I told ya so".

Here it is nearing the end of
November and this is little
variation in what the year has
yielded to us, other than to
get a slightly different variety
of stunts, delays, scams, and
grandstanding which is along the
line of what we already had been
getting.

As they both came charging out of
the gate in the new administration,
both Democrat Chairmen stepped in
the biggest political mudhole
of all times and so far hasn't
been able to dig their own way
out of it.

As if there wasn't a single thing
wrong with the VA agency itself,
NO --- these 2 disconnected fools
proceded to make it very their
very FIRST order of business to
push through a Bill which granted
a bunch of Phillipino non-residents
to the U.S. full VA benefits standing
as coherts in equal to our citizen
troops of World War II.

Yes it immediately sucked off nearly
$1 BILLION dollars of the Veterans
VA budget interests, and then after
they made this mistake from Hell,
it only occurred to them THEN to
stop and look around and see what
else needed to be dealt with in
the VA system. And then came along
the Washington Post series on
the conditions at Walter Reed Hospital.

This has been like watching a rerun
of the old Groucho Marx movies or
The 3 Stooges short films because
Larry, Moe, and Curly could not have
bungled the outcomes of this Congress
any better than Bob Filner and Daniel
Akaka did.

While we had effectively launched a
full Opposition to the Phillipino
Bill, easily knowing it was a budget
trick and there was no allocation of
money to put towards non-residents
to receive full VA benefits, never
mind the small stuff --- Filner
and Akaka said "hey, you Vets don't
really matter anyway so why would
we want to listen to YOU ?" The
Bill was passed and now the rest
of us has to fry in budget hell
while a bunch of questionables who
don't even live here ride off into
the sunset with our benefits loot.

From there they began to bungle
themselves through a series of
rushed Bills, all of which were
tied to the Veterans Disability
Benefits Commission, which had
already been in session for nearly
a full year. Stop, I said. Wait,
I said. Stop sending in Bills under
somebody else's jurisdiction says
I. After a pile stacked up in
Committees, they were all promptly
FROZEN after the VDBC Commission
itself intervened at the House
Veterans Affairs Committee and
asked them what the hell they
were doing. Most of those early Bills
will now likely die in Committee
at the end of session for being the
misinformed, misguided, misworded,
and off-target missed opportunities
that they are, including a lop-sided
attempt to address the Concurrent
Receipt matter.

Fools, dummies, imbeciles, and morons
is all we ever get out here. It's
either the fools and dummies over
there, or the fools and dummies
over here --- either way, it's nothing
but relentless fools and dummies.

The House Veterans Affairs Committee
has ended all Email access to the
Committee itself so that Stakeholders
cannot voice at all on the issues.
Public Comment periods are not held
on any hearing, only the handpicked
and incompetent veterans service
organizations are the ones who
are allowed to speak. It's the stupid
leading the dumb.

Once they realized the Phillipino
crisis they had caused on the rest of
us, they were then wanting for
something they could pass and still
look good while not adding on to
the $1 BILLION overshoot that the
Phillipino Bill had caused.

So they focused on the remaining
part of the year, giving us Death
salute Bills --- yes, burial revisions
and graveside revisions and coffin
and funeral expense revisions.
Apparently they don't plan to do
anything for us while we are alive.

Then for the past 3 months we
have had federal buildings NAMED
after Veterans. Yeah right, as if
THAT is going to change MY life
anytime soon --- how about YOU ??

Then there is the construction reviews
so that VA employees can work in
spectacular newly rennovated surroundings
while the Walter Reed troops sit in
mold piles. If any of them in Congress
had brains they'd be dangerous.

Then they whined and clobbered the
White House over the 2 month delay
in nominating a new VA Secretary
when Jim Nicholson was ousted at
the heels of our many calls for his
firing into the Senate. But NOW
the shoe is on the other foot,
and we are one month into the announced
VA Secretary nomination, and neither
the House nor the Senate has bothered
to even schedule his confirmation
hearings --- not in November, and not
in December either.

They have passed around publicly
the idea that the VA claims crisis
is due to a"training" failure,
this floating around among them
even BEFORE the Dole-Shalala Commission
was created and BEFORE the VDBC
Commission had issued it's findings.
Not so, we said, it is NOT a training
problem because we have tested these
stinking VA Raters and for sure,
the claims backlog is a deliberate
fraud scheme of falsified documents.
Nobody would listen. And now here
comes CNN News with a program airing
just last night, confirming once and
for all, that the VA Raters malpractice
is NOT (for sure) a training issue,
but a willful, deliberate, and
hate-crime driven document falsification
fraud scheme just as we have all said.

Ya have to wonder at what point do
they all shut up and sit down and
start figuring out that it's us Veterans
who know what the problems are inside
this system? Instead of locking us
out from talking, they should be
inviting us all in for a public
forum.

The Congress, just like the VA,
also appears to be fully incapable
of saying the 2 little words "you're
fired". What's up with THAT? All
of a sudden now the Congress has
turned into a Suck-Up Circus To
Nowhere so where is all the promised
session of CHANGE that we all voted
for at the end of last year?

There's not a single brain among
them who can identify the problems
at the VA as meeting the full legal
definitions for such horrific terms
as "patient abuse", "human torture",
and "malpractice" so what's up with
THAT ??

And now among other stumbles and
bumbles that we have been forced
to sit through, they also want to
separate combat cases from non-combat
cases and speak to one and not to
the other. Like THAT is going to
do anything out here at all.

There has been a suicide bill
passed, but only time will tell
if even that too was misfire.
They predicated the entire suicide
Bill on one single incident where
a Veteran went to seek suicide
treatment, didn't get it, and
then committed suicide.

A much more accurate version of
the problem goes something like
this: the Veteran is trying to get
disability rated at the VA, can't
get through it, and becomes suicidal
while waitingbecause he can't endure
the process.

The passage of time will tell who
is right and who is wrong. For now,
they have set up the Suicide Bill
as if it's the fault of the Veteran
and not the process. Like advertising
on the VA website now saying that
the Veterans can click for suicide
prevention is really going to change
a freaking thing out here.

The system is recommending Boards
to oversee and duplicate the entirety
of the VA agency. What's up with THAT?
What exactly are all of those
managers and UnderSecretary's doing
with their fat paychecks and why
do we need yet more Advisory Boards
to duplicate and oversee the functions
of that which is already in place
by the agency itself?? DUH!! Hello!

There really doesn't seem to be
a single rational brain in place
in Washington who has their fingers
in the power of this VA system.
For every single brain-dead that
leaves a VA post, the vacancy is
then filled by somebody who is
mentally retarded. It's a never ending
vicious cycle of fools.

What is it about 700,000 backlogged
cases for entire lifetimes that nobody
in Washington understands?

Update Note: The Senate has scheduled
the confirmation hearing for the new
VA Secretary nominee set for December 5.

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