Category Archives: VA BACKLOG

HAL 9000 SERIES–THE M-21 1MR

Posted on July 11, 2012 by asknod

Meet the new, improved M21-1MR WARMS Computer. I bet that all this time you thought  there were little munchkins running to and fro down at the RO with C-files balanced on their heads. Busy, busy, busy. Or not. What is … Continue reading →

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Top to Bottom Cleaning

Posted on July 9, 2012 by asknod

Member Randy sends us his ideas on how to cure the vA problem. Swab the deck Square your area away Whatever terms you care to use there is a heaping pile of BS needing to be cleared out of DC. … Continue reading →

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Each day, 18 more Vets killed on “Highway 1”

Posted on July 8, 2012 by joeaveragevet

In 1999, a group of private companies, such as Kodak, Cisco,  IBM, and  Microsoft got together and developed a system for the VA to use to convert the VA paper claim system to electronic processing called “Highway 1” at no … Continue reading →

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Why is the VA so broken?

Posted on July 8, 2012 by joeaveragevet

Bob Filner talks to Rachel Maddow on why the VA is so broken, here. So, why is the VA so “broken”? There is a “culture of denial”  at the VA that is “anti Veteran”, and often overlooks fellow employees violating … Continue reading →

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Shinseki’s backlog reduction by 2015 wont be met.

Posted on July 8, 2012 by joeaveragevet

I hope, for Veterans sake, that I am wrong about  VASEC’s promise .  Maybe he will keep his promise, but the numbers don’t add up.    The VA’s promise to fix the backlog by 2015 is largely based on  the VA’s “fuzzy math”.   … Continue reading →

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DEFINITION OF INSANITY

Posted on July 7, 2012 by asknod

Some noted author or famous person who escapes my brain-fogged memory once said that the definition of insanity was repetitively doing something over and over again in hopes of attaining a different (and better?) result. Ah, Google. >>>author Rita Mae Brown in her book … Continue reading →

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VA Employees Meet quotas by denying Vets

Posted on July 5, 2012 by joeaveragevet

According to the New York Times, the employees at the Columbia, South Carolina’s VA Regional Office deny Veterans claims because it is faster and helps them meet quotas. The Times article says it this way: “They’ve implemented so much stuff, … Continue reading →

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VA BACKLOG IN PERSPECTIVE.

Posted on July 5, 2012 by asknod

I have received numerous queries over that last several months as the news of the vA backlog increasingly dominates the airwaves. I googled backlog and a number of sites pop up including my ruminations on this one. Jim Strickland’s VA … Continue reading →

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BvA REBELLION

Posted on June 27, 2012 by asknod

As with all catastrophes, certain panaceas are regularly trotted out as the repair order. With the vA this isn’t so. They are, for the most part, hide-bound and stuck in the past. Witness their insane desire lo these last two … Continue reading →

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THE UNDERWEAR GNOMES

Posted on June 24, 2012 by asknod

After a suitable amount of time to accumulate a body of emails that discussed their impressions of the brouhaha at the House hearing last Tuesday, I can say that it is apparent there is general consensus among Veterans at this site that … Continue reading →

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