Term Limits For All Va Officials

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What would it take to have a bill brought to congress that requires that every 4 years, the secretary of the va, the undersecretary and several others further down the chain of command, would be MANDATORY elected by the people of the united states. When we vote for a new president, the VA SECRETARY, THE UNDERSECRETARY, AND A FEW MORE im the chain, can either be re elected for one more 4 year term, or they go home and ask forgiveness for thier sins. This would give the people who hold these positions a reason to do thier jobs, and it would hold them accountable. Also it may be possible for the president to do it as an executive order/

Unless the VA becomes accountable for thier actions, things will surely just get worse. As we have seen over the last several years, congressional oversight commitees cannot seem to make the va do anything. They cannot shame them, they cannot persuade them, they cannot encourage them, they cannot order them. The va was founded by our forefathers on a principle, and that principle was

CARE FOR THOSE WHOM SHALL HAVE BORNE THE BATTLE. In these present times we live in, there is no respect, mercy, or kindness shown to veterans, its all a numbers game, with greed and corruption running rampant. We must change, along with the times.

If the VA employees 100.000 dollar a year jobs were on the line, they would get thier acts together.

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Congress votes the money for vets. Have term limits for senators and representatives. Some have to be carried into the congress on hospital beds like Bird and that old Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond (sic).

the money has never been the problem, the money is there, its the way the Va has decided to withold it and try to appropriate it to suit themselves, and not veterans is the problem. Executives in the va looking to make backroom deals with contractors for kicbacks is the problem. lack of accountability and transparency breeds this type of behavior when large sums of money are involved.

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This decade will be a decade of great change, and here is why. We are the last generation that will ever live, who will know what the world was like before the internet/

We know what it was like to go to the card catalog at the library find a book and check it out. We know how hard it was to find information about almost anything, We had to find and talk to people who knew abt such things, or find books or videos on the subject. People had alot more value, for thier expertize. The old vietnam vet down the street, who could hp up that old 350 chevy motor, was one awesome dude. Or the guy around the block, who could show you how to set up your boat, for trawling shrimp in the back bayous of louisiana was the man to see if you wanted to learn, but you better go see him with respect, and humble yourself, because he doesnt share this hard earned knowledge with just anyone. Knowledge was a limited comodity when I was growing up. If you had a problem with your car, you called your older brother. he called someone he knew, and it went on and on. You might get an answer in a week or so. Or you had to go to the local autoparts store and see what the clerk could tell you. Everything was a fact finding mission. Nowadays, there are 12 year olds rebuilding transmissions on you tube. You can talk to a guy in australia abt a problem you have with a truck online . It is almost like our generation has been transported into the future, with the technology of the internet/. Not too long ago, most things we watched on star trek, were fantasy. Not anymore.

The point im trying to make here, is that we are a " information seeking" " fact checking" generation. IT IS IN OUR NATURE because of our previous lack of information age upbringing.

The following generations that come after us, will more likely take everything the read on the net as truth. It is just the mindset they are having. They have nothing to check it against if you think abt it. Just like our generation had to take the guy on tvs word for what he was saying or what was written in the local. newspaper

I am proud to be part of this generation as we are surely different, very different and unique, !!