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On this Executive Administration, it's Cabinet and those directly around same, "Best - Ever": "We haven't had this kind of visibility from the White House—ever." Joyce Raezer National Military Family Association - Dec. 30, 2011, and plenty more of similar since Joyce, others, spoke and continues!
Ask yourself: If the Veterans Administration is so corrupt and mismanaged, as the conservative ideology, under which the seeds of are planted when they control, wants everyone to buy into as they obstruct the budgets and do extremely little after they charge same, then why does the Private sector, many problems within rarely heard about, adopt so many practices and advanced technologies developed within the VA, for free?! The VA, DoD, and in partnership with Universities and Colleges, not just Health Care are constantly in R&D and that developed that works is quickly moved into the private, for profit, sector, even as the VA is long under funded, decades, and especially during and after our wars that the few are sent into!
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President Obama 26 August 2014
Fact: "This is not just a job of government. It’s not just a job of the veterans’ organizations. Every American needs to join us in taking care of those who've taken care of us. Because only 1 percent of Americans may be fighting our wars, but 100 percent of Americans benefit from that 1 percent. A hundred percent need to be supporting our troops. A hundred percent need to be supporting our veterans. A hundred percent need to be supporting our military families."
Fact: "We’ve been able to accomplish historic increases to veterans funding. We’ve protected veterans health care from Washington politics with advanced appropriations. We’ve been able to make VA benefits available to more than 2 million veterans who didn't have them before, including more Vietnam vets who were exposed to Agent Orange. We’ve dedicated major new resources for mental health care. We’ve helped more than 1 million veterans and their families pursue their education under the Post-9/11 GI Bill."
August 26, 2014 - Secretary Robert A. McDonald's Remarks for the American Legion's 96th Annual Convention, Charlotte, NC
Fact: "Unlike, P&G, VA may not be concerned about quarterly profit and loss statements or shareholder value, but it does have a bottom line—Veterans. "
{which is why No Government agency should be turned into a private corporate entity feeding for profit off the Countries duty and responsibility, especially the VA}
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While the 'chickenhawk' fox fed 'kombat keyboarders' cheer this type of action on!!
18 February 2012 - Two brothers who served in Vietnam demonstrate at the U.S.-Mexico border over a more stringent immigration policy that ensnared them because of misdemeanor criminal convictions more than 10 years ago.
Brothers Manuel and Valente Valenzuela still don their dress blue military uniforms with the ramrod-straight posture from their Vietnam War days. Manuel, a former Marine, carried out rescue missions. Valente, an Army soldier, was wounded and received a Bronze Star.
The brothers, both in their 60s, are now waging a legal battle against an unexpected foe: the U.S. government. They are trying to stop the country they served from deporting them to Mexico.
On Saturday, they took their protest to the U.S.-Mexico border, where they marched in a demonstration that mixed solemn defiance with unabashed patriotism.
Decked out in their military blues — shoes polished, commendations shining — they held aloft a U.S. flag. The uniforms, they said, were meant to distinguish them from illegal immigrants who are deported, some through a nearby gate from where they may one day be dispatched.
"We have to show what we have done and what we have sacrificed," said Manuel, a construction worker from Colorado Springs, Colo. "We are American. We could have died for this country."
The brothers' cases are the latest of several that highlight what some believe is a growing trend as U.S. immigration authorities, in casting a wide net to deport illegal immigrants, also snare non-citizen veterans who have committed crimes, including misdemeanors.
Immigration authorities said veterans who come under scrutiny, most of them green card holders, are treated differently, and potentially more leniently, than illegal immigrants. read more>>>
Feb. 19, 2012 - More than 6,000 veterans are homeless in New Jersey, and 67,000 suffer that plight throughout the United States, according to a report released in December by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development.
“How can this be?” asks Robin Fox, a Bridgewater comedian who will perform in a benefit hosted by the New Jersey Elks Association.
The fundraiser, at 7 p.m. March 10 at the Paramus Elks Lodge, 200 N. St., Route 17, Paramus, will benefit homeless veterans throughout the state.
Fox, who is known for her “middle-age, suburban housewife” comedy, finds humor in almost anything but sees only the tragedy in the high incidence of veteran homelessness.
“It makes no sense that these men and women who have given their energy and their bodies to protect the freedom of American citizens are left to fall through the cracks,” Fox said.
“My father served in World War II, and I have the greatest respect for anyone who has served our country.
“We should be giving them everything we can, we should make every resource available to them when they return from the nightmare of war,” Fox said. read more>>>
An Iraq War veteran is seen getting treatment at a Veterans Affairs hospital in 2009. The VA is among the winners in the FY2013 budget released Monday, with the agency slated to add 4,300 jobs. (Getty Images file photo)
February 13, 2012 - The Obama administration plans to add 2,400 new employees to the federal workforce in fiscal 2013, a nearly flat 0.1 percent increase to 2.1 million civilian non-postal employees, according to the budget released today.
But at the agency level, there are winners and losers.
Among the winners:
• The Veterans Affairs Department would get 4,300 new employees, which would represent the largest numerical boost in the government and a 1.4 percent increase to about 306,600 employees.
• The Treasury Department would hire 3,600 new workers, a 3.3 percent increase to about 111,800 employees.
Losers include:
• The Defense Department is looking at cuts of 7,500 civilian employees, a 1 percent decline to 756,800 civilians.
• The Social Security Administration is facing a 3.1 percent cut of 2,000 to 63,400 employees.
Civilian personnel costs in the executive branch — both pay and benefits — are projected to increase 1.8 percent next year to nearly $246 billion. read more>>>
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