Present: More Time Passes While Veterans Wait - Past: Decades & Wars From = DeJa-Vu

Under Gen Shinseki, with a target on him after speaking military truth and the bush admin firing him with cheers from the supporters of, and with help from the entire Executive Branch and it's Cabinet, long ignored, Poser Patriots easy out to not Sacrifice, and some denied issues were being addressed. PTS, Agent Orange, Other War Theater Contamination's, Gulf War Syndrome, Homelessness, Jobs, Upgrading and adding new National Cemeteries as well as upgrading and adding new clinics and Veterans facilities, to name but only a very few from decades and wars of in past to the present as these two wars, quickly abandoning the missions and those sent to accomplish after 9/11, were brought to an end. Also being addressed was the very slowing advance of, in the new 21st century, record keeping and more technology as the funds to stay advanced were obstructed in previous, as well as present, budgets.

The responsibility of those served not maintained, obvious in this past decade plus especially, two tax cuts with two more wars, especially for the wealthy served, in taking care of those who served them.

Here's hoping that continues, and more, and those served fulfill their Responsibility, Finally, going forward and the Conservative dream of privatizing for corporate profit, Congress then can build the needed bottom lines with bigger budgets then, is never brought to completion!!

07/28/14 - Congress does its job, but no medal for that

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

Rachel Maddow reports on a new bipartisan, bicameral deal on a bill to benefit veterans and fund the V.A., but points out that recent history shows that a deal does not mean it will pass the House to become law, so more time passes while veterans wait.

Sen. Bernie Sanders told Conservatives: “If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans, than don’t go war. These people are bearing the brunt of what war is about, We have a moral obligation to support them.” February, 26th, 2014

A Drawback of the House-Senate VA Bill? Congress Can’t Create Doctors

July 28, 2014 - Legislation announced today by the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees aims to solve the wait-time crisis that has bedeviled veterans for years by providing $10 billion for vets, who live 40 miles from a Department of Veterans Affairs facility, to get treatment from private clinicians.

There’s one problem with this approach. The entire country, not just VA, faces a shortage of primary care physicians. About 20 percent of Americans live in rural areas with too few doctors, and the shortage will grow to 45,000 nationally by 2020, according to Kaiser Health News. read more>>>

“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

Rep Miller and Sen Burr, i.e Conservatives: There Should Never Be NO Negotiations, NOR Offsets, Like Your Rubber Stamped For Corporate Profit Wars, Through Their Representatives on Veterans Issues, the Responsibility of the 99% Served!!

Prior too this present Executive and Veterans administrations, with two wars dumped into their laps and virtually nothing done for the veterans of and once again veterans of previous decades and wars from:

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>>>

Oct 16, 2008 - VA claims found in piles to be shredded

October 24, 2008 - House panel will target VA shredding

February 11, 2009 - Veterans' Claims Found in Shredder Bins
ProPublica and The Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2012 - Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
"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."
Army Says War Records Gap Is Real, Launches Recovery Effort

And the just above is just recent history, not all that has been for decades and wars from!!

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too" "not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

These present wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, after abandoning the missions and those sent to accomplish so quickly after 9/11 to invade another, have yet to be paid for!!