Cassi Creek: In today’s
news, I found a notice that the DAV is moving their offices from current
locations along side VA facilities to fallback locations. Since the VA laid off an additional 7000
employees yesterday, there is a dearth of open office space where DAV can
operate as they previously have.
This latest
round of VA layoffs means that no one will be answering phones when veterans
call for help or to follow up on a claim for benefits. The tremendous pile of backlogged disability
claims will continue to grow larger and the processing will fall farther
behind.
This is
taking place at a time when veteran’s needs are greater than ever. The shutdown services include GI housing
loans, GI bill education services, disability determinations, and a host of
other services that suddenly become unavailable.
The Vietnam
War was a turning point in treating injured troops. With the ability to evacuate the wounded via
Dust-Off flights, and with improvements in trauma surgery, many troops who
would have died in previous wars lived to become veterans. VietNam also led to Agent Orange related
diseases that could surface a decade or more after exposure.
The Gulf War
also led to injuries due to chemical agents and petroleum fires, in onset, more
like WWI than VietNam but just as real and just as debilitating.
Iraq and
Afghanistan demonstrate further progress in our ability to stabilize and save
troops with such extreme injuries that they would died in any previous
war. However, the number of people with
such injuries is still increasing and the follow up care and compensation these
wounded deserve is going to require long-term health care and life-long
therapy.
Enter the
teavangelists, all willing to send other people’s children off to war but
unwilling to pay for their injuries.
This group of brainwashed minions belonging to their corporate sponsors
is quite willing to shut down our government, destroy our economy, and create
still more injured veterans that they will then refuse to care for.
Thank you
very much teabaggers. We will remember
which blunder of morons is responsible for closing Veterans’ Affairs
offices.
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