Veterans Affairs employees made to pay fortune teller??
Apr 23, 2015 8:02:51 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 8:02:51 GMT -6
Just when you thought the corruption at the Veteran Affairs Admin couldn't get worse? Well....It did. First though, what it covered in the opening took my breath away.
My heart is heavy, and I am a bit choked up at reading that.....mixed with a vicious kind of anger which isn't pretty.
How many veterans...for 20+ years then, have been screwed like a new sport makes it fun? How many survivors of men who gave all, or gave some but lost more coming back, knew their last contact with this side of the US Government to be bordering on criminal and absolutely negligent beyond description?
If ANY of those employees got a retirement, and are still collecting? I'd very coldly and with no more thought than stepping on a bug....CUT their retirement and ALL other benefits ...while explaining they would be damned lucky if it only stopped with that much.
Oh, about corruption and fortune tellers? yeah...that is there too!
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Personally? I wouldn't recommend the Military to anyone, period. It strikes me as one of the single WORST options a young person could choose right now, and it really pains me to say that. It isn't the traditions and proud heritage of our Armed Forces that cause me to say that. It is the near 5th column of incompetence that appear through damn near every level of current Military command, as well as post service support. I'll hold my belief, naive or not, that the NCO's still represent intelligence among madness...but I know that, too, may be more hope than truth these days.
Perhaps the V.A. does need disbanded and destroyed. I balked at that suggestion years ago, because I honestly believed, never knowing for sure, the VA did SOME good for SOME men to justify its existence. Perhaps SOME do see benefit ...but the legion who are neglected to actual death outweigh any benefit that monument to corruption could be supplying, IMO.
Mrs. Brown, a former employee in the VA’s Oakland office, was assigned one day in 2012 to a special team given the job of reviewing more than 13,000 veterans’ claims dating back to the mid-1990s that had never been addressed. As they sorted through the mounds of papers, she said, they often discovered that the veterans had long since died without receiving the requested benefits.
In those cases, Mrs. Brown testified, VA managers instructed employees to mark the files “NAN” — for “no action necessary.” But she said taking that step also prevented a veteran’s survivors from receiving benefits.
In those cases, Mrs. Brown testified, VA managers instructed employees to mark the files “NAN” — for “no action necessary.” But she said taking that step also prevented a veteran’s survivors from receiving benefits.
My heart is heavy, and I am a bit choked up at reading that.....mixed with a vicious kind of anger which isn't pretty.
How many veterans...for 20+ years then, have been screwed like a new sport makes it fun? How many survivors of men who gave all, or gave some but lost more coming back, knew their last contact with this side of the US Government to be bordering on criminal and absolutely negligent beyond description?
If ANY of those employees got a retirement, and are still collecting? I'd very coldly and with no more thought than stepping on a bug....CUT their retirement and ALL other benefits ...while explaining they would be damned lucky if it only stopped with that much.
Oh, about corruption and fortune tellers? yeah...that is there too!
Witnesses described mental abuse of VA workers and falsifying records to erase claims backlogs. One witness even told lawmakers about a VA manager in Philadelphia who allegedly compelled subordinates at a party to pay his wife $30 each to tell their fortunes.
Ms. Halliday, who issued a scathing report last week about problems in the Philadelphia office, revealed Wednesday that she has launched a new probe into “misuse of positions by two senior leaders” in Philadelphia — a reference to the fortune-telling incident.
Ms. Halliday, who issued a scathing report last week about problems in the Philadelphia office, revealed Wednesday that she has launched a new probe into “misuse of positions by two senior leaders” in Philadelphia — a reference to the fortune-telling incident.
Personally? I wouldn't recommend the Military to anyone, period. It strikes me as one of the single WORST options a young person could choose right now, and it really pains me to say that. It isn't the traditions and proud heritage of our Armed Forces that cause me to say that. It is the near 5th column of incompetence that appear through damn near every level of current Military command, as well as post service support. I'll hold my belief, naive or not, that the NCO's still represent intelligence among madness...but I know that, too, may be more hope than truth these days.
Perhaps the V.A. does need disbanded and destroyed. I balked at that suggestion years ago, because I honestly believed, never knowing for sure, the VA did SOME good for SOME men to justify its existence. Perhaps SOME do see benefit ...but the legion who are neglected to actual death outweigh any benefit that monument to corruption could be supplying, IMO.