Recently, Michelle Obama confided to Oprah Winfrey, “Now we’re feeling what not having hope feels like.” That was tragic to hear. Nonetheless, there is a group of Americans who will empathize with her. They have been living without hope for the past eight years. Who are they? American veterans who depend upon the Veterans Administration for their medical care.
What is the V.A.’s record over the last two presidential terms?
· Veterans dying while waiting weeks and months for critical treatment,
· Illegally modified paperwork to cover administrative malfeasance,
· Medical staff using unsanitary equipment during veteran treatment,
· Persecution of whistle-blowers who go public to expose veteran abuse,
· Refusal to punish incompetence–rewarding it, instead, with bonuses,
· Impotence and indifference in the face of a suicide epidemic,
· Fraud and abuse wasting billions of tax dollars,
· And most recently, leaving the corpse of a veteran to decompose in a shower
