This just in. The New York Times, in a major scoop on its competitors Sunday, unfurled a banner story about an apparent backlog of claims at the VA. It was even reported that the Oakland and Seattle Regional Offices were so backed up that a wait of over 125 days was becoming normal. The last time I checked, 125 days was three months and five days. It takes the SEARO 125 days to mail out an acknowledgement that they received your claim. WTF? Pardon my French, but what Gregorian calendar are they ascribing this phenomenon to? Mars or Jupiter’s? In 2008, it took  SEARO over five months to confirm that my wife and 21 year old son were indeed related to me and compensate me accordingly. They had this information from the filing of my VA Form 21-526 which was sent in to them in-ta da!- July, 1989. From just this, one can see the magnitude of the problem and it’s not just in Oakland and Seattle. It’s all-pervasive and endemic to the system. All the King’s men and all the King’s horses are not going to put this aright. Uncle Eric is dreaming.

Attached below is the burning knowledge that today this news will be revealed to our elected Representatives in Foggy Bottom. Where it will go from there is anyone’s guess. Perhaps Sen. Sneakers will stumble upon it and make it her cause du jour. As I have always tried to enunciate, they’ll see it only when they believe it up on the hill.

VA BACKLOG DISCOVERED