On Veterans, Conservatives and Countries in No Different

The long problems with Veterans care, and actual support, isn't just an American failed political ideology, ignoring many issues or just plain denying the issues exist. The reports in these time are all archived and are added to often. Here, in America, they get regurgitated every now and then by the peoples Representatives as media grabbing 'scandals'! Plenty of news time for them hired reps to boost their ego's and help keep getting them re-elected and after the many, attack on VA personal, hearings very little is done, by the Poser Patriot population served and through their hired Representatives!

These are from our neighbor to the north, Canada, but there are plenty more as well as from Britian and elsewhere, especially when Conservatives have control over the purse strings and are supposed to help the peoples agencies.

Fact: "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

Conservatives brace for bad news in auditor general’s report on veterans care

Nov 24, 2014 - The Harper government’s frenzy of funding to support veterans continued to rain down Monday, just ahead of what’s expected to be a politically toxic report by the auditor general on mental health services for ex-soldiers. In the 48 hours leading up to Michael Ferguson’s fall report, the Conservatives — who have long prided themselves on... subscription needed to read more>>>

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Vets needing PTSD benefits face dizzying paperwork, eight-month wait: auditor

11/25/2014 - Many of Canada's battle-scarred veterans wait up to eight months to find out if they are eligible for long-term, mental-health disability benefits and the department responsible for their care has no idea if its treatment programs are effective, the auditor general said Tuesday.

For a handful of those ex-soldiers, the cumbersome application process is only the beginning of a battle for care that can rage for years.

Michael Ferguson's fall report takes Veterans Affairs Canada — and to a lesser extent, National Defence — to task for saddling psychologically battered veterans with a dizzying array of paperwork and for making them wait an unnecessarily long time for help.

"The department doesn't really seem to have spent time looking at the process from the point of view of the veteran," Ferguson said. "And we think the department needs to put themselves in the shoes of the veterans who are trying to access these services, in order so they can understand the experience of trying to navigate through that whole process just to get an answer." read more>>>

Tories leave Canada’s battle-scarred veterans in the lurch: Editorial

Nov 25 2014 - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been under fire in Parliament for “nickel and diming” veterans, a core Tory constituency. read more>>>

Fact: “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

Facts: Matthew Hoh {former Marine and foreign service officer in Afghanistan}: "We spend a trillion dollars a year on national security in this country."
"And when you add up to the Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, Veterans Affairs, interest on debt, the number that strikes me the most about how much we're committed financially to these wars and to our current policies is we have spent $250 billion already just on interest payments on the debt we've incurred for the Iraq and Afghan wars." 26 September 2014

Bob Herbert "Losing Our Way" : "And then the staggering costs of these wars, which are borne by the taxpayers. I mean, one of the things that was insane was that, as we're at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration cut taxes. This has never been done in American history. The idea of cutting taxes while you're going to war is just crazy. I mean, it's madness." Bill 'Moyers and Company': Restoring an America That Has Lost its Way 10 Oct. 2014

Chris Hayes MSNBC: "If you can run a deficit to go to war, you can run a deficit to take care of the people who fought it" In response to Republican opposition to expanding Veterans' benefits on fiscal grounds