{"id":16437,"date":"2009-12-31T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16437"},"modified":"2009-12-31T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T12:00:27","slug":"now-try-and-get-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16437","title":{"rendered":"Now, try and get them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the Democrats passed some great benefit packages – almost ambitious you might say. We all know that they’ve been unable to deliver on the new GI Bill and thousands are still waiting on their first checks to pay off their education expenses for the last semester and the next semester looms. The Washington Times<\/a> writes this morning about Vietnam veterans who are trying to get the health benefits that they are owed;<\/p>\n

VBA, the branch of the Department of Veterans Affairs that dispenses aid and assistance to veterans and their families, is simply overwhelmed. It reported on Monday that there are 481,751 pending claims, some of which will take more than a year to be processed.<\/p>\n

Among those flooding the VBA’s facilities with claims are retirement-aged Vietnam veterans and elderly World War II veterans, middle-aged Gulf War veterans, and younger Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. All of these groups are applying in larger numbers because of the weak economy, said Larry Scott, the founder of the advocacy group VAwatchdog.org. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These things didn’t happen overnight, of course, and the blame can probably be spread out evenly over every administration since Woodrow Wilson – but it’s disingenuous for the Obama Administration to run a campaign targeting veterans with a promise of better administration of their health care and then a year later, nothing has changed except the depth of the incompetence.<\/p>\n

And the VA dodges reporters;<\/p>\n

Efforts to speak with someone at the VA about these matters on the record were not fruitful. The only person the VA would make available was a high-level technology officer at the VA, and that interview was canceled twice at the last minute. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Probably because, like everything else this administration has failed at accomplishing, they realize that it’s a lot easier to campaign for something than actually accompishing something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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