“ [–]donnerkebabparty 0 points 58 minutes ago I have to disagree with you here, the problem with the VA starts at the top. It's not the GS 5 to 9s that come in everyday and work. It's the SES bonus babies that don't do shit and create beurocracy. Better leadership and proper allocation of funds is what they need, care outside of the VA should be for patients in remote locations. I've been on both sides as a patient and as an employee and people want to keep their jobs just like everyone else. And just because someone wasn't an 11b doesn't mean they are any less worthy of their status as a Veteran. If you want to crucify vets, look at the ones that get booboos in basic training and wash out but somehow scam their way into ridiculous disability percentages and take up appointment slots for guys with crippling PTSD and missing legs.

VA problems include the top, but continue all the way down to the laziest low-level employee. Many many people work in or started at the very bottom, that doesn't make you immune from being corrupt or just generally being an asshole, it just means you didn't make the really big corruption/mismanagement decisions (even if you knew about it). People who joined can be injured anywhere from training to duty to combat, and that's what the system is supposed to be supporting. It's ironic that you pick on some group of veterans to deflect focus from the massive entitlement which you and your co-workers whine about. You feel entitled to your job, then bitch about others who you claim are somehow more entitled than you (if that's even possible). This is the kind of twisted cancer that Trump will remove, the gimme gimme selfishness of federal union tactics. I'm just surprised you've been allowed to scam taxpayers for this long.