The Veterans Administrations budgets were purposely short changed, extremely and over decades, as the Country sent those that serve and defend into War Theaters and long occupations of others. This past decade plus was even more obvious when those that ordered the invasion of Afghanistan quickly started beating the drums, abandoning the main missions after the 9/11 attacks on this country, to invade another using trumped up intelligence to convince the country it had to happen. With all that the country served was never told they have to Sacrifice, tax cuts instead came with war, and they once again never demanded they should, as they're demanding the Military personal and their families to once again. When those that have served and returned home to join our growing war theater veterans ranks it's been easy for the country to ignore the needs of those military war veterans, ignoring the hidden wounds many more carry then those suffering the obvious wounds of war that can't be ignored, many of which also carry those hidden wounds. It gone so far as berating the veteran for complaining about what isn't readily seen calling them slackers, free loaders and worse, so the country served need not compensate nor care for.
14 Aug. 2012 reports VA's Winston-Salem Regional Office in North Carolina, mentioned in video discussion below
The short changing needed budget growth, and easy to ignore issues, especially during war time, has caused the VA to stay behind in the advancing technologies the rest of the country uses or develop their own technology special needs, that like the Military and Veterans health care research and development brings forth and is successful has been integrated into the civilian health care facilities, for each tasks the peoples responsibility the VA has under the agencies many duties and needs of those who serve. This ends up costing even more of the treasury that isn't there in the congressional set budget as the government agency, the peoples responsibility, does it's work in decades old practices. What should have developed after ours, Vietnam, wasn't. And with these two long occupations wasn't even considered in the earlier years of. That has finally changed with still no demand by the country that they should sacrifice in changing even faster, which would quickly bring down the costs needs. Started, with some obstruction, in the 110th and 111th congresses. Then, right from the start, with the Executive Branch and Cabinet change which has now another four years, even with all out obstruction by many in the government bodies that control the purse strings and oversite.
Makes no difference where you stand in relation to President Obama his Cabinet nor those around it, the reality speaks of what they came into, especially in relation to these wars and the results of along with the decades of ignored results from the wars of same and backlogs, and denials of compensations, attributed to. They could have ignored us older veterans, they haven't, like those before them. Nor are they ignoring, congress and the country are once again, the military and their families and veterans of these present times and wars one officially finished and one winding down, as those serving try and accomplish at least some of those long ago abandoned missions sent into that region with.
The Obama VA has done more to try and get a handle on some serious problems. They will be demonized because that is how republican legislation is born. Stall, do nothing, criticize, blame and never compare improvements in many areas and play up the bad.
From the Costs of War Project: Because the Iraq war appropriations for FY2003 - FY2013 were not funded with new taxes, but by borrowing, it is important to keep in mind the interest costs already paid, and future interest costs. Iraq War appropriations for DOD and State were 54 percent of the interest costs. If one were to include Iraq's share of cumulative interest through 2053, those costs could be more than $3.9 trillion.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been experienced not only on the battlefield; they have reverberated inside the homes of military families left behind in the United States by deploying service members. When they return, the wars come with them. Service members cope with the emotional and physical scars and the employment disruptions of their service. Moreover, more frequent deployment and shorter periods at home between deployments have made this a significantly more difficult set of wars for military families than those of the past. National Guard and Reserve members have been called away for unprecedented periods, affecting both their families and the communities that have gone without their service and their economic contributions.
Prior too this present Executive and Veterans administrations:
October 23, 2008 - And now VA investigators are trying to figure out if this one-time survey points to the likelihood that documents have been improperly destroyed for months or even years."Whatever this problem is, it didn't just start in the last two weeks," said Dave Autry, a spokesman for Disabled American Veterans. "It'd be unreasonable to assume that. Who knows what's been destroyed."
The documents, which didn't have duplicates at the VA, would have been critical in deciding veteran pension and disability claims. As a result, many veterans are asking whether their delayed or denied claims were affected by lost paperwork. read more>>>
And more disturbing in relation to even before and through the early years of these two wars and occupations, this:
Nov. 9, 2012 - A strange thing happened when Christopher DeLara filed for disability benefits after his tour in Iraq: The U.S. Army said it had no records showing he had ever been overseas.
snip DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War.
A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Seattle Times has found that the record keeping breakdown was especially acute in the early years of the Iraq war, when insurgents deployed improvised bombs with devastating effects on U.S. soldiers. The military has also lost or destroyed records from Afghanistan, according to officials and previously undisclosed documents. read more>>>
The Bush and their congresses, especially the Veterans Affairs Committee's both houses, years, while waging two more wars developing into two long destructive occupations, and just one VA facility, Bay Pines, a Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General report:
One would think they were seeking to cut the long term costs of the wars waged, these recent ones not yet paid for, and the country ignores, DeJa-Vu all over again, when over. And the responsibilities to those who've served!
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