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| English: President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office of the White House Monday, November 10, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
From Denny: Like President Obama was warned when coming into his first term by outgoing President Bush 43, "Somewhere, every day, there is someone screwing up in the federal government." Truer words could never have been spoken. Who knew Bush was a government prophet?
For decades there have been serious problems going on at the Veterans Administration. Along comes a new President and he throws a healthy extra billion dollars at the VA to fix the current problem, and, you guessed it, taxpayers are not getting their money's worth.
What it amounts to is that basically two greedy battling tech competitors set about to screw over 900,000 disabled veterans in desperate need of medical treatments and surgeries. Does the insane and depraved indifference of greed never stop? It's shameful what is happening over at the VA.
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Check out Jon Stewart's take on the mess. It would be laughable if it weren't for the fact so many service members from current and past wars were not in such deep need. We lose hundreds every day to suicide - all because the VA is telling them, "Oh, by the way, we might be able to get to you by 2015." Well, at least they finally set up a new phone line to jump the most desperate to their attention, thanks to the new director.
Does the VA need extra bodies to throw at the problem to help digitize old records? Does the VA need bodies to help read the current cases and process them into reality? Why not hire volunteers to move the hard copies to digital? Get them to sign privacy and confidentiality agreements.
Go down to Office Depot and purchase about 100 desktop computers (HP will do) and another 100 of those fun 5-in-1 copiers so they can create pdf files of each case. If the average home office user can do this then why not the federal government?
If the government is uncomfortable with volunteers then pull the volunteers from current federal workers who can be poached from various agencies and throw them at the problem until it is finally solved. Allowing this problem to get this out of hand is an outrage - and a project the President should step in personally and order to be fixed ASAP.
The Red Tape Diaries - Veteran Benefits
Many aspects of the Iraq War have gone wrong, including proper care for America's veterans.
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