Category Archives: VA BACKLOG

WILL VA ATTAIN 125 DAY/98% ACCURACY BY 2015?

Open voting. No cookies. No sign in. No track back. Please be honest. It will let you vote more than once because I don’t want it to be a “in order to vote you will have to register or sign … Continue reading

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SHOWDOWN AT THE VARO CORRAL

Things have been “brewing” shall we say, between the VA and their slaves down in the galley at the mighty ship Columbia of South Carolina. This has been going on for quite some time but one would think that quarreling … Continue reading

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USB HICKEY–WE CAN’T SUPPORT THESE “TRIPS”

For years and years, the American Legion has had an “action team” that dutifully travels the US and “inspects” the Regional Offices we have now come to know and love as “Veterans Service Centers”. After the millions of dollars spent … Continue reading

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NEW LEGISLATION TO EVICT VA DEADWOOD

Great article from Pop Smoke on Republicans actually reaching across the aisle in a bipartisan effort to fix the VA. I like it. Sen. Cruz introduced it in the Senate as well so we shall see who the poker players … Continue reading

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Col. (Sen.) Sanders Okay With VA Bonuses

Col. Sen. Sanders went on record with Stars and Stripes and had this to say on the subject: “When people are doing a bad job we don’t want them staying in the job; when they do a good job we … Continue reading

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VA-HOLD THE BINOCULARS BACKWARDS, PLEASE

Sometimes, they really must take us for dolts, complete boobs or functionally illiterate, double -digit IQ  quirks of society legally licensed to drive automobiles. Children in adult suits if you will. This kind of three card Monte game is the … Continue reading

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LIES, DAMNED LIES AND VA STATISTICS

Benjamin Disraeli, the eminent British Prime minister said this in the late nineteenth century long before the VA was beginning to hit its stride at obfuscation and disingenuous, convoluted statistics showing up was left and down was, well, whatever they … Continue reading

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A LEGEND IN HER OWN MIND

April 2012—Congressman Filner, you have my word that we’ll have this backlog under control by 2015. We now have the tools and the finances to implement the Secretary’s directives.   July 2013—Congressman Miller, The new VBMS, which converts files over to electronic format, … Continue reading

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VA ROLLS OUT NEW FDD PROGRAM

 Today,VA Under Secretary for Undeserved Benefits Allison “In Wonderland” Hickey announced a new, exciting concept in VA claims intended to “wipe out the backlog as we know it”. Called the Fully Developed Denial, the expedited process will allow Veterans to advance through the complicated … Continue reading

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VA BACKLOG IN DECLINE?

We decided to take the Ric Shinseki ‘Find a needy Vet’ challenge and see if we could find even one sick needy Vet falling through the cracks this Christmas. Turns out we didn’t have to look very far. Our very … Continue reading

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