Make the VA benefits private. Eliminate the VA, IRS and other BS agencies.
Dear sasquatch,
re: “Make the VA benefits private. Eliminate the VA, IRS and other BS agencies.”
I agree we should do something.
As to the V.A., there is one point that i will share, as a veteran getting all my medical care from them.
The pharmacy refill program is something that is another mess, BEYOND what goes on at the clinics and medical centers.
Let’s say you have “prescription whachamakeuvit”. You need this prescription, in managing kidkneecholheartblad problems, and you are running low, but not less than 10 days worth, yet. You KNOW, if you are within a close travel range of your local VAMC, you will sit there the whole day waiting on your refill.
So, you grab your phone of choice and call the prescribed V.A. number, and enter into the ‘push for this’ menu. Once you have done that, your order is not processed at the local VAMC, but digitally sent, to the prescription clearing house and dispensary IN NASHVILLE, TN. It is THEY who will fill and mail your prescription refill request, within 7 to 10 days, providing that those lovely over-paid USPS workers do not go on strike.
Now, in making anything change from governmental to private, there would be a ‘snafu notch’, and in this notch, might be some very necessary stuff, that need not fall through the seams of the carpet, which would include me.
I agree that the federal government is overgrown, and needs a large pruning to occur. With the tremendous success and inter-agency accomplishments under its belt, why not get rid of the Dept. of Homeland Security, and give it back to the original homeland security outfit, the FBI; and let the CIA do its job, outside of the borders of CONUS, as it did before each sitting president got his fingers in the mud.
The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms department of the U.S. Treasury has not been as keen as it should be, either.
The Drug Enforcement Agency, and ‘the war on drugs’, has not done too well in deterring drug trafficking. If there is ‘a war’, where are the blood and gut casualties? That whole scene has reduced to a game of hide and seek, and a rabbithole for government money.