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More shocking news! this was just a year ago, and to present there is no follow up to the story that I'm aware of?..........perhaps not shocking considering its in all aspects of government..........this is more on the line of dispicable considering the VA exist to serve Veterans. Many if not most who are employeed by the VA are not Veterans, something that should be a criteria. Not only has this business occurred in the past, but is still occurring. The govt broke contractural agreements with veterans during the mid 80's, the same promises that were made to both the men and women who served, and never made it home, imposing means test on Veterans. The same promises they made to those lying in some cemetary from fighting in one of their political wars. Nothing new I suppose, their good a breaking promises, their experts at it having done it for centuries. Now thats its all said and done, the dishonorable Congress had a change in plans, veterans are not treated equally but are catergorized, instead of supporting those who made it home and honoring those who didn't they stripped that honor away by degrading veterans, and should not be asking anything of these vets from yesterdays wars or today's. The VA today has grown into a financial institution who functions like an insurance company seeking payment from vets thru their carrier or them, they also function like a dept of the IRS who will scrutinize personal financial information submitted to them which may open up an audit. In addition to this any disabled vet who receives disability payments which may be at any percentage level even a 100% who works hard to fit back into some kind of normal life, and works hard thru the disability, and wants to work, but perhaps can't give a 100%, and whose efforts may fail, the VA will do its utmost to try and take away their disability payments. One such fellow I know but haven't seen for a while was in the VA on the East coast for more than 3 years after Vietnam and hundreds of reconstructive surgeries having lost most of his face and blinded in one eye, and who will never have a normal life, but he tries awfully hard. We have some pretty dirty rotten scoundrels in the Congress, and the VA who is always begging for more govt money, and pulls the Congress by the nose to climb in bed with them for their cause securing their careers..............this was under old man Bush's admin...............http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347010,00.html What dirty tricks will they employee that we haven't already been made aware of for those engaged in war today?. One is the story of the govt putting some vets on medicare which is meant for the elderly...................a way of detaching them from who they are.