Jul 15 2008
Day at the VA last week
Last week, my friend and I were treated to yet another hair-pulling episode at the Veterans Administrations hospital. Given the copious amount of literature surrounding the various incompetencies of this monstrous system, I don’t think I’ll attend to the specifics.
I’ll only say that it is an absolute travesty of justice for our elected officials to treat our veterans as though they were charity cases. They are not. It is right there in their sign up contracts that they will defend our country with all their might and with their very lives, if necessary, and in return, their health needs will be cared for by the government.
These vets have upheld their end of the bargain. Where is the honor of our government? President Bush keeps lauding our troops, calling them heroes and such. Many of our troops are returning home and are being treated like trash at the VA.
And the thing is, these soldiers are being treated better… better than vets of yesterday’s war. I keep seeing vets from the Cold War, from Desert Storm, from Vietnam pacing those hallways, sitting in overflowing waiting rooms, and these “doctors” barely give them the time of day.
These are our broken men and women. They are our soldiers. They wore the uniform of our country, stood in the path of the juggernaut and preserved our freedoms. And this is how we honor them as a country? Treating them like a pack of losers?
I’ve even heard that desk clerks have called security to cart men away for protesting their shabby treatment. In all the times I’ve been there, which have been considerable, I find that these so-called altruistic “doctors” have rarely shown up on time, EVEN AS there are signs posted everywhere telling vets not to be a “no show”.
What’s more galling is that once you’ve waited for over an hour for these “doctors” to show up, if you’re not there when they call your name, you get busted back down to the bottom of the waiting list. This means that the next available appointment is going to be scheduled six months later.
And if you protest this, you might get carted off by security because some louse behind the counter didn’t like the tone of your voice. This gets marked down in your record, and you’re automatically labeled a troublemaker. Tough tamales.
What a monstrous system, indeed.
We treat our veterans like dirt and we put chocolate mint bon-bons on the pillows of our enemies.
Forgive me if I don’t believe our politicians’ sincerity when they praise the heroism of our soldiers, liberal AND conservative.
The latter is particularly offensive to me at this point because they keep waving God and the flag in our faces while they seem to be systematically selling us out to the Globalists. What? Maybe they think that we wouldn’t see their sell-out because they’re chanting “hate queers” in the name of marriage?
(I hear it’s the President who keeps wanting to cut back funding for our non-Iraqi War veterans… So, wouldn’t it necessarily mean that our current troops being shot at in Iraq would be forgotten and dispossessed of health care when the next war occurs?)