What is a veteran?
A veteran is a man and/or woman who alienates the comforts of home and family, the safety of American soil and prosperity in all of its forms.
Why would an individual do this? The simple answer is “because they know that if nobody else accepts this “sacrifice”, then America would only exist on a wing and a prayer”. Our democracy would be challenged and the freedoms we enjoy would be decreased significantly and veterans from all wars would become simple “has beens” and “what for”.
The year is 2009 and still, veterans continue to fight wars at home after having fought wars overseas. What does this mean? Simple!! It is called neglect under the strict adherence to a government run bureaucracy and its methodical destruction of a veterans honor and dignity.
Recently, Congress enacted the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill. Supposedly the most extensive educational program for veterans since World War 2. Sure, on the cover it is beautiful but underneath, is a bureaucracy full of lies, deception and distorted facts (facts that are suger coated).
If there is one group of people in the United States of America that deserve VIP treatment, it is our military veterans and their families. HANDS DOWN!! NO QUESTIONS!!
Politicians including the President and Vice President should be at the mercy of our veterans. Then again, what would they know??!!
If any class of people in this country should be waited on hand and foot, it is our veterans.They don’t ask for it but damn it, moral, ethical, patriotic and American values are what they defend therefore they should reap any and all rewards. Period.
Yeah, right!!
Instead, our veterans are trampled on both mentally and physically and I mean literally in every sense of the word.
If you were to listen to Patrick Dunne, the Under Secretary for Benefits at the Department of Veterans Affairs, you would swear that our veterans were being treated with respect under the umbrella of ethical standards.
September 23, 2009, Dunne said this:
“Our top priority is providing our students and schools with accurate and timely benefit payments so veterans can focus all of their energy on studies”.
Well, that might be true if the VA would work 6 days a week, longer than an 8 hour day, which includes government mandated breaks and so-called down time for “training” or “catch up”. Instead, the VA works only Monday through Wednesday, takes Thursday and Friday off. (Who are they kidding? The VA claims it is not available for questions or problem solving on Thursday or Friday because they are “processing claims”). Bull!! They should be well organized and structured to handle the case load 24/7. Colleges and universities are basically running class loads on average of about 13 – 15 hours per weekday and in some cases I imagine a weekend or two. If a veteran/student has a question or needs some sort of assistance, they only have 3 days in which to do this. Those 3 days then become consumed with vets/students that for 4 days couldn’t access the VA education assistance hotline representative. So now, trying to get something done or answered may very well be interfering with the vet/student academic responsibilities such as class and/or getting to and from college.
If you numbnuts at the VA can’t handle the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen. The Congress and the VA should not have created the Post 9/11 GI Bill education program because it is not only flawed to the max, it is without direction and the utilization process.
The Post 9/11 GI Bill is nothing more than a tease!!
Those idiotic VA employees and top brass are lazy, under achieving, excuse making “pathetics”, without class or cause. There is absolutely no adherence to the needs of the veteran students. If veterans can be on the go 24/7, then so can those pieces of human inconvenience at the VA..
VA representatives actually give attitude towards veterans seeking answers and assistance and in some cases just HANG UP on veterans. Believe it!!! Just ask a veteran dealing with the VA and you will get an honest answer based on the truth and facts. Actually, this is based on whether you get to speak with a representative. The VA has a phone system in place that makes one believe that they are always inundated with phone calls… They are not fooling anybody!!
There is NO EXCUSE FOR THE LACK OF RESPECT AND DIGNITY towards America’s finest. Heroes of Heroes!!
Now let’s talk numbers, Dept. of Veterans Affairs numbers that is.
Beginning May 1, 2009, the VA began accepting applications for the post 9/11 GI Bill and school enrollment certifications on July 6, 2009.
Approximately 277,000 applications for eligibility determinations and school enrollment certifications have been received for the Post 9/11 GI Bill.
During this same period, the VA received 603,000 applications for other education benefits programs like the Montgomery GI Bill and processed over 503,000 of those applications authorizing payments totalling over $1 billion.
Post 9/11 GI Bill:
There are 900 VA employees processing 277,000 claims for education benefits;
That totals 307 claims per employee. If they only did 10 claims a day, all of the claims would have been processed by now. (If they began doing their “job” on September 1,2009) Remember, the VA began accepting applications for the Post 9/11 GI Bill back in May 2009 which begins to crack their lackadaisical approach and contradicts Mr. Dunne and his valiant words highlighting the VA as prioritizing the benefactors of the Post 9/11 GI Bill.
If you do the math, a very simple math, it would be easy to match numbers with effort or lack there of.
Let’s say they actually began the claims process on June 1,2009 and each VA employee had 307 claims to process, to be done by September 1, 2009 each employee would only have to complete, on average, only 5 claims per day. This mathematical assumption is based on the 277,000 claims having actually been submitted no later than June 1, 2009 even though claims were being accepted as early as May 1, 2009.
Okay!! So let’s go with a common sense approach to an analogy.
If those idiotic Americans want government controlled healthcare in the format of socialization, then read this blog over again. And over again!!
The VA, a government controlled agency, is having serious problems, both logistically and administratively, with handling less than a half million education benefit claims for veterans. Imagine the government “trying” to handle and serve millions upon millions of medical claims and processes. Do you not think they too, will encourage a three or two day work week designed to “personally” tend to the medical needs of American citizens? The rest of the “work week” would be dedicated to “catching up” on paperwork and claims just as the VA does with less than a half million education claims.
The ONLY slight difference between healthcare and education is simple, a life is not on the line for veteran students, but it is when medical situations arise for millions upon millions of Americans. Imagine the attitude you’ll get when inquiring about health issues, serious or not..
The VA system is nothing but a failure with a batch of bandaids at the ready.
Erik Shinseki, the top gun at the VA, and his class of idiots represent nobody but themselves. Proof is in the pudding!!!!!
Don’t let this happen to you and your family!!
America is great without these government run scams!!
*****UPDATE*****
Normally, when an update is added, it means something either changed or something was left out and/or added. In the case of this blog about the Post 9/11 GI Bill, the update is a regret.
“I regret to inform those veterans using the GI Bill, that nothing has changed, if anything, it has gotten worse.”
Currently, there are still countless veterans who have yet to receive their payments for the housing allowance, book stipend, and tuition reimbursement. Sadly, and mortifiably so, some schools are now placing veteran students on “academic hold” because the VA has yet to either reimburse the school for tuition or has not reimbursed the veteran student.
Did you know that bonuses are handed out to the SENIOR Idiots at the VA for a job well done? So does the Postmaster General of the United States Post Office. But who’s counting?
What makes matters worse for some veteran students, is the BAH has gone down, while rent goes up.
Can somebody, somewhere use both logic and common sense and explain this? The US Government offers hundreds of billions of dollars to the United Nations under the “false” agenda” of global climate change and yet, and once again, veterans are short changed, literally.
The issue of the Post 9/11 GI Bill is many. On December 21, 22, 23 2009, three fellow veterans attempted, ALL DAY, to get through to the Post 9/11 GI Bill call center. ALL DAY!! No Answer.. None!!! The recording said ” we are sorry, but we cannot forward your call”.. ALL DAY!! From three different phones. We started ten minutes to seven – Central time.. They are “CLOSED” Thursday and Friday EVERY WEEK to “process” claims.. This means that December 24th and 25th were off days which means according to the government, the actual “true” off days are Monday the 28th and Tuesday the 29th.. Unless of course the VA is not telling the whole story.
An insider at the VA says ” that the phone system” is discretionary.. In other words, “if they want, they will and if they don’t want to talk to ya, they won’t” and just make it “busy”!!!!
Veterans are teased, used and abused… Again, why is this allowed to happen?? To Hell with the VFW, American Legion and any other so called Veteran Group that professes it’s false agenda as veteran friendly… They are nothing more than political and politically correct ass kissers who take money..
We Want Answers And We Want Them Now!!!
Don’t tell me that the economy is improving!!
Don’t tell me that the rental “business” is dragging!!
Don’t offer me a unique, “under the carpet”, mathematically and economically designed equation that insults intelligence!!
Explain to me the “why” of supporting everybody else on the planet but not the veterans of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!
Healthcare is not broken!! But those asswipes in DC want to spend trillions of dollars “making the tire square”!!
Hundreds of billions of dollars go to banks and all forms of financial institutions who steal and rob the American Taxpaying CITIZENS, yet fund ILLEGALS.
Do I Detect A Revolution? A Veterans Revolution? The Kind That Real And True America Would Appreciate And The Government Would Fear!! Sadly, Choices Are Dwindling FAST!!! But to America’s Benefit!!! Rest Assured!!