Posted on 06/16/2011 6:56:24 PM PDT by thesistine
Right on! Thank you, I could not put into words like you! Very well said!
The Helena, Montana, facility was alright.
When I was a child, back in the 70s, I had to go to several different hospitals for tons of medical tests. One of those was the VA hospital. It was the only hospital with a real-time X-ray machine... I got to see my own skull on a monitor screen.
That experience aside, I have always heard bad things about the VA. I suppose it's like most government service agencies--not enough customer service, and too many people trying to get the service.
“The military is not analogous to society as a whole.”
THIS! IS! (not) SPARTAAAAAA!!!!
Ugh....the Weasel would say something like that.
And the article crows about how the military "knits together" all of these differences races and social backgrounds, but believe me, there is every bit as much clannishness in the military as there is in civilian life.
Attend any holiday gathering downrange and you'll see the blacks all off at one table, Asians at another and other clicques forming along racial lines.
I admire and support our armed forces and am very, very grateful for them and for what they do, but the utopia described in this article is no closer to reality than the utopia the liberals envision in other aspects of our society.
I’ve always hung out with a lot of different nationalities. I never caught any grief from the other white guys; but my friends would often catch flack from the latinos, blacks or asians for hanging with a mixed crowd. Fortunately, my friends share my attitude in which I refuse to suffer the presence of idiots.
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I’ve always hung out with a lot of different nationalities. I never caught any grief from the other white guys; but my friends would often catch flack from the latinos, blacks or asians for hanging with a mixed crowd. Fortunately, my friends share my attitude in which I refuse to suffer the presence of idiots.
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I never saw that in my career. It happened alot in the support MOSes I saw, from the outside. But in Combat Arms units that I was in, we never had a problem with it.
I bet I can find an article two that has Kristof bitching about the cost of the DoD socialism.
As I’ve posted here in the past, there were race riots in the rear during the Nam... At times it was safer in the bush with the dinks!
When I first moved to Maine, I was asked if I would sign up at the VA. I replied when I’m dead take me there. They can’t make it any worse.
Not 2 months later I broke a foot and ended up at Togus VA.
I’ve experienced 7 VA hospitals, 5 Military hospitals, and 3 civilian hospitals in my life. I’ve never been treated better than at Togus for the past ten years.
I was taking my friend to the one in Atlanta, horrible. We had to arrive 4 hrs. BEFORE appt. time to make sure we got a parking space. Once there, I walked through those doors and I thought I would scream. There were patients EVERYWHERE! In wheelchairs just shoved in corners. There was a line for Diabetes treatment, the line stretched as far as I could see.
My friend had been hit with an IED, had spinal injury and a TBI, after being seen and being prescribed even more drugs, it was another 3 hr. wait in the pharmacy.
He has had one spinal surgery and was told he must have another one or eventually he would suffer paralysis, he was scheduled for the surgery and it was cancelled by the VA because the Dr. was fired and he would have to get on the list again!!!!
Not True!
Every single time our financial sector blew up it was the government and banks behind it.
When a writer thinks the most stunning achievement of the American military is its day care program, we can expect BS like this.
Finally, the author lists all kinds of reasons people stay in the military when they could be making more in the private sector, all of them coming from a socialist viewpoint, but neglects the most important reason - a sense of duty to ones country.
You shouldn't have posted this comment. Someone from the VA bureaucracy might see it and decide to send in some experts to study and "fix" the problem... /s
Mark Levin talked in detail about a retired policeman and what he and his wife got as union members. Mark reads an e-mail form a retired police officer who exposes the corruption. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyR1RdV1zM
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