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| Wounded warriors face home-front battle with VA |
| 2007-11-19 |
| Story at link. Any ideas on what politics might realistically come into play here? I'm guessing certain unnamed Donk "leaders" comments about how unfortunate this all is and suggestions that all this could be stopped (and all sacrifices dishonored) by ending the war now. I also hope it ends there and that things are fixed as quickly as possible. I don't want to see vets wasting time trying to get what is owed them. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #1 Within 48 hours of telling his story to CNN this summer, the Office of then-VA Secretary Jim Nicholson acted on Ziegel's case. I know its about bureaucracy. However, we've seen enough to also know that 'ombudsmen*' type organizational structure can be put in place to do the 'awe shit' check. If the VA is unable or unwilling then they should accredit an outside volunteer office to assist in these cases to overcome the natural entropy of any paper driven system that acts mindlessly upon the deluge of correspondence. Why expect the VA to be anymore responsive than your local school system to problems in the system? Theoretically, the leash is shorter at your local level than the national. To paraphrase the former SecDef, you go to war with the VA you have. That was one staffed and geared to peacetime. I don't recall any particular funding increase in staffing. Like the quality teachers you have before 'reform', you have the same teachers after reform. You have the same civil servant employees you had pushing the paper system you had in 2000. Unless you give people the power to override legislation [because you're dealing with legal expenditure and accounting requirements along with 'due process' verification and validation processes] this isn't going to be 'fixed' anytime soon no matter how much you howl. *Theoretically, your congresscritter in the House of Representatives is suppose to be the ombudsmen, but if he/she is a Donk you're likely to be screwed there too unless you want to be a poster child for the |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-11-19 09:27 |