You've committed a crime EVA. I did not write in my post any numbers about Iraq or Afghanistan, you did. You should correct that and apology for your dishonestly.
Now let me school you on the facts. Half the people in the VA system are over the age of 65 years old. Yes, you forgot about World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the First Gulf War, and all the other little actions in between. There are millions of veterans using the VA system to some degree or another. The rate of veterans dying from illness and age is greater than the number being created by presidential decree. There are fewer veterans now than there was 10 years ago and fewer patients in the system than there was 10 years ago. The problem is that the younger patients have different problems related to combat and PTSD. The older patients have gone throught that and are now more age related and chronic illnesses. That's two different kinds of patients. The older patients could be better cared for by the traditional system of private health but that would cut the amount of money going to the VA and that the union will not allow. This damned union is demanding that veteran be forced to stay in a failing system so that they get paid.
I suspect that more than one of you is part of the Public Employees Union as you are obviously too stupid and uncaring to hold a job on the outside. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Bottom line is JD you are lying through your keyboard. The calls for service from the VA has increased by millions. I did not mention the other vet's as I mistakenly thought you were smart enough to know they were included...MY bad. you remind me of a instructor who told his students that airplanes did not fly the earth rotated underneath them.