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I stumbled across the VA's facebook account. Since, from the little I read, there were no negative things there, I assume this account is hidden from Veterans.

Maybe some hadit members should provide our comments, instead of the flag waiving VA praising comments the VA wants the public to believe.

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http://www.facebook.com/VeteransHealth

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Looks like they are using it as another medium for press releases.

3,900 people are fans, I am guessing mostly VA employees.

Says they are also on Twitter, thank goodness. I was realy woried no one at the VA was "tweeting".

I looked around for any resources. Not much.

Kind of silly.....Eric

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In all of my surfing on facebook... Which has probably been way too much... Besides, hadit and a few other veteran boards, I have never seen such a tweaked out facebook page... Someone had way too much time on their hands, and it was probably on the VA's dime... They even have a youtube box... And we wonder where our $$$'s are going... :o

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I heard that the VA forbids employees from going to www.vawatchdog.org on company time. However, this facebook website of the VA's seems much worse than watchdog, at least watchdog is honest! I wonder why Va employees have time to mess with facebook...unless the VA considers this site "official propoganda".

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I heard that the VA forbids employees from going to www.vawatchdog.org on company time. However, this facebook website of the VA's seems much worse than watchdog, at least watchdog is honest! I wonder why Va employees have time to mess with facebook...unless the VA considers this site "official propoganda".

Ummm, Ex and current VA employees run a veterans benifits forum much like Hadit.

I'm not allowed to give my opinion of it. It is possible to get good advice there.

I'm not sure it is still up but I'd think it is.

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Ummm, Ex and current VA employees run a veterans benifits forum much like Hadit.

I'm not allowed to give my opinion of it. It is possible to get good advice there.

I'm not sure it is still up but I'd think it is.

What's the name of the web site? Why are you not allowed to give your opinion of it?

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What's the name of the web site? Why are you not allowed to give your opinion of it?

VBN-Veterans Benifit Network.

I no longer have a link to it.

Tbird supports this site as it does provide good claims advice to veterans.

All I will say is: Do not post a negative comment about the VA there. The things that will be said to you are very disturbing. It will come from the moderators.

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VBN-Veterans Benifit Network.

I no longer have a link to it.

Tbird supports this site as it does provide good claims advice to veterans.

All I will say is: Do not post a negative comment about the VA there. The things that will be said to you are very disturbing. It will come from the moderators.

That's a "yuku" site. Veterans Benefits Network site requires you to join. I'll pass. Hadit is a hand full, for now.

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I think I got banned from the VBN. One of their goons emailed me and called me all sorts of names. I was asking about CUE and they kept telling me to just be grateful I got anything. I took exception and it was on. Their guru is a VA employee who has a hard time understanding why anyone would question a VA decision.

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John

Wow! Im glad you told me that! I got banned from VBN also. I got on there and suggested they pay rating specialists paychecks in a similar time frame that they pay Veterans compensation! They got mad, told me how hard work it is to work for the VA, and how if they paid rating specialists in a similar time frame to how they pay Veterans, that is, make them wait months or years for their compensation, that all the good VA employees would quit. I said that it was totally unfair that VA employees get paid in a matter of days or weeks, but expect Veterans to wait years for their compensation. I got banned!

I still think that employees paychecks should be directly linked to how fast they get out Veterans compensation. I think there should be a backlog of VA employees pay before there is a backlog of Veterans compensation!

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Just a warning. If you leave from here to go cause mischief at VBN and we find out you may get banned from here also.Tbird does not want any problems with VBN and she tries to maintain a good relationship with them.

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Now you know why I can't give my opinion.

I was not banned from VBN.

On the bright side: We are able to give negative comments about VSO's who's mission is simular to HADIT and VBN. But then, they aren't VA employees so it's okay.

Did I go too far?

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Hadit has a History that many here are not aware of. It had been a time in the past where VBN Members would comne over here and disrupt this Board and some Hadit Members would go ver to VBN and disrupt their Board.

Tbird and VBN made Peace and agreed to keep the Peace by not allowing members from either Board to attack the other.

Ok Bob there is nothing wrong with your question I don't understand why you think it was your comment. It was the tone of other Members and a couple of comments here.

One more thing before someone tries to twist this another way. If you got banned at VBN and are behaving here you are probably safe. I would not know anyway I don't go there and if I did I would have the good manners to just observe and not interfere

And if the VA has a Facebook page I could give a rats azz about that also.

I think what we need is one forum for claims and just 86 all the rest

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I am not too worried about being banned from VBN...after all, the Bible was banned from schools, so I am not really that worried about it. I am not even sure if I was banned, or just forgot my password.

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If I was banned from VBN, I have some good company. A few examples, not that I really am in the class of any of these:

1. One student was told he could not learn math...and flunked out. His name was Albert Einstein.

2. Another student wrote a business plan..his teacher, at an Ivy league college, gave him an F. He went on, persued the business plan anyway, and founded Federal Express.

3. Still another student dropped out or flunked out of his college. So this student was "self taught" at the library. Later, this "student" decided to help libraries and gave many of them computers. He did fairly well for a drop out..his name is Bill Gates and he is the wealthiest man in the world.

4. One record company had a new band apply at his company. They had a new style of music. The record company rejected them. He just did not think this new group, called the "Beetles" would ever take off.

5. A new basketball player failed to make his high school basketball team. This failure motivated him to get better. Perhaps you have heard of him. His name is Micahel Jordan, and is perhaps the best basketball player in history.

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