06-19-2014, 22:00
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Special Forces Veteran Slams the VA
Michelle Malkin and an anonymous Special Forces veteran unload on the VA.
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“They’re getting billions of dollars, and they treat veterans like s-t. There’s no accountability, no buy-in, among civilian unionized employees. We mean nothing to them. It’s like going to the DMV for your health care.”
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06-19-2014, 22:43
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True words.
There are some good people who actually care at the VA, but they are outnumbered by the shiftless lazy unionized bastards who feel that the Veteran is an inconvenience to them and an interruption in their social schedule.
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Again, the vet refuses to candy-coat the roots of the festering VA scandal: “The problem is not just waiting lists. It is utter fraudulent expenditure of enormous budgets, not on veterans, but on overpaid lazy, surly civilian employees that often make it clear that a) they do not like veterans and b) that the veteran is actually a nuisance. The problem is endemic, at every level, in the VA. The unfortunate fact of the matter is this: Veterans have become incidental to the process at the VA.”
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06-19-2014, 23:59
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That guy needs to be audited by the IRS...
...who does he think he is anyway?
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06-20-2014, 06:06
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Four years after returning from Vietnam I went to the VA to ask them about a small business loan. They told me they only gave small business loans to WWII and Korean vets. A couple of years after that we had a representative from the VA come to the college I was attending to speak to the vets about their benefits. I pointed out to him my experience with the SB loan and he seemed shocked and told me they give SB loans to Vietnam vets. Some time after that I went back to the VA and asked about the load and I got the same reply. We don't give small business loans to Vietnam vets. Not sure if today you can get one if you served in Vietnam.
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Last edited by Dean Jarvis; 06-20-2014 at 06:10.
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06-20-2014, 06:44
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The VA... I hate them on so many levels. Some things they do are GTG, but not many.
GI Bill - good
VA Home Loan Guarantee - good, if not great
Health care - sucks ass.
The last time I went to the ATL VA, 4 hours to get parked, 3 hours sitting in a waiting room before first contact, 2 hours getting repeatedly asked "Do you feel like killing yourself?" without one question about the reason I was actually there. 2 hours to get my car back (they have enforced valet, you can't just, you know, park). What a collosal waste of time and effort. As of today, they still haven't made a service connected determination...2 years later.
yup, that was the LAST time I go to the VA.
Dean - The SBA administers business loans now. Yes, Vietnam qualifies you.
http://www.sba.gov/community/blogs/b...-veterans-2014
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06-20-2014, 06:50
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I had the misfortune of working for the USPS for too many years. Their unionized workers and management both hated two things, mail and customers.
It seems reasonable to me that vets would be number one on VA employees' list of dislikes.
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06-20-2014, 14:29
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Why doesn't BHO "use his pen and phone" to fire all the VA civs that are not veterans and replace those new vacancies with out of work veterans?
An honorable discharge should be a REQUIREMENT for a job at the VA much like a clearance is required for work in the Intel Community.
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