What's worse, my typing of the word or AmeriKa's betrayal of its veterans?
"We need to get out of paper"
Oh, I AGREE! I have to stop buying and reading the Boston Globe!
"VA secretary wants to end backlog by 2015" Associated Press, March 25, 2013
WASHINGTON — Although the number of veterans’ disability claims keeps soaring, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said on Sunday that he is committed to ending the backlog by 2015 by replacing paper with electronic records.
Gee, they can send 'em off to fight fast enough.
Veterans receive disability compensation for injuries or illness incurred during their active military service. About 600,000 claims, or 70 percent, are considered backlogged. The number of claims pending for more than 125 days has nearly quadrupled under Shinseki’s watch.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: US Army F***ing With Vets Minds
The Greatly Troubled Generation
You would be, too, if you were sent to maim, murder, and slaughter innocents based on lies.
He said on CNN’s ‘‘State of the Union’’ that a decade of war and efforts to make it easier for veterans to collect compensation for certain illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder have driven the backlog higher. He said that doing away with paper records will be the key to a turnaround.
Shinseki said that the VA has put its new computer system in place in 20 regional offices across the country and all regional offices will be on the system by the end of the year.
‘‘This has been decades in the making, 10 years of war. We’re in paper, we need to get out of paper,’’ Shinseki said....
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I know, I know support the troops.
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Someone else is getting out of paper, too!
