I know, I know, I know, it’s been a while since I have been telling you what I think or feel on anything… ok let’s be real here, on EVERYTHING. I could just say that I fell out of my tree and I couldn’t get up or that life got in the way, but I have never lied to you and I never will, unlike some, I feel the truth holds its own light against the dark of any lie. The truth is I have been busy, but more importantly I have grown to feel that no one is listening, that is except my four great followers who I thank for sticking with this Monkey through it all. Thank you and may you NEVER have monkey poo in your shoe. (Move over Dr. Seuss) So, I am asking each and every one of you that reads this blog to tell someone AND leave a comment., I mean If you agree with something or if you don’t that’s great. I could be wrong about something, I doubt it, but it might happen and I am ALWAYS up to a spirited debate. The other reason I have not written in a while is because I was told that I know way too much about what celebrities are doing or not doing and that person was more or less right, I mean where else can you find a whole group of ass hats in one place, but Hollywood?
Well I can answer that one for you so you don’t have to spend the day surfing the web to find that answer. The answer is right in front of 99.9999999% of all veterans. It’s called the Veterans Administration. These are the ass hats that are SUPPOSED to ensure that our nation’s heroes are taken care of, the men and women who have sacrificed and some to this day continue to sacrifice for this country and the people in it. I had thought that the problem has just in the town I live in, but as I investigated I found that it goes a lot deeper than just the VA here, I know of this vet who has what the VA terms a “Service Connection Disability”, that is to say that this person, this hero, was hurt or injured while defending this country. The VA has even got a rating system to say just how FUBAR’ed you really are. A vet is rated on a “scale”, from 0 to 100. If you are rated at 50% or higher you have certain “privileges” such as free prescriptions or no co-pay or what have you. You are also supposed to have preference in job hiring’s such as a 10 point veterans preference instead of a 5 point. Now I know that there are those of you out there reading this that are saying, “Well no shit Monkey, tell me something I don’t know”. Well I am not “recapping” the VA system for you guys cause I know that you know this and can tell your friends that don’t know what I’m talking about, what I’m talking about. I’m talking to the person that has never served nor has any friends that have served. I know, hard to believe in this day and age right? But there you are.
So you’ve sat throw all that and are probably asking “Monkey, what has you so annoyed?”Well, gentle readers, you have it wrong. I am NOT annoyed, I am downright PISSED OFF, so the Annoyed Monkey is the really Pissed Off Monkey right now. As I stated the VA in the town I’m in is treating the vets in this area like what comes out of the back end of a cow. I know this vet who has a service connected disability who worked at the VA. Now this person is a really nice person and who loves their job, they love working with the vets and they have a “connection” because both of them are vets. Well, this person was sick more often than not and was made even sicker by the “doctors” who say they are treating this person, but the drugs they give only makes this person worse and to cap it all off this person suffers from PTSD, (that’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for those not in the know). Needless to say that this gallant hero is living through their own version of hell. And what does this Government Agency, that spends Millions on ads, they tell you that they care do for this person? (coughs bullshit into hand) They certainly don’t help them; they fire them BECAUSE of their disability. Now keep your underoos on folks, I know what you are going to say and I have said that and more believe you me. You see the crafty bastards that they are know that this person would have a HUGE, I mean HUGE law suit if they actually came right out and said that they fired this vet BECAUSE of their disability, so they gave this person a raise then said that their job performance was in question. Yea, I smell it too. I wish I could say that this was a onetime occurrence, it’s not. This VA harasses, bullies and intimidates every vet that is in a position hire than a grounds keeper, because 99.99999999999999.99999999999% of ALL vets, disabled or not are only hired to either sweep floors or be grounds keepers, not a one is in a position of authority. I mean who better to put in a leadership role than someone who has actually lead people. Oh shit, what AM I thinking, can’t have that, that would make way to frigging much sense. There is another disabled vet that they forced to quit because they were doing the same thing as they did to the others, but instead of letting them fire them this person quit and they have three, yes 3, small children at home AND this person is a single parent. I also know this other vet who took the VA to court over the actions that were doing and the VA came right out and told this vet that “We’re the Federal Government, we have deep pockets and we’ll keep this in court until you are living on the streets broke”. This was said to a vet who gave freely to this country and this is the thanks they get. I have spoke to other vets about the “doctors” in the VA. IF they get to see them, (if they are not driving hours on end to get to this VA and sit for four to six, yes that’s 4 to 6 hours, BEFORE they even see a nurse), the “doctors” don’t even really check out the patient or really listen to what they are there for. They are “famous” for giving out medications that only make the person worse and when that person complains it’s the vets fault because they didn’t say anything. I mean it’s a bunch of camel hockey, this one vet went in for pain in the ribs and can feel them move when he breaths and the “doctor” touches the spot that hurts and he comes off the table and all “doctor” can say is take Motrin. And he tells the “doctor” that he was doing that for the last two weeks, since he was there last and the nurse said that the “doctor’ said to take the Motrin, even after the “doctor” put in this vets medical records that Motrin does NOT work for him. Then it has to be shingles, never mind that this vet showed NO signs or symptoms of shingles that’s what he was diagnosed with. I’m told that this vet talked to a doctor friend and that the doctor laughed and said No dude, you DON’T have shingles, I can tell just by what you have said that you have separated ribs”. Hmmm. Now this Monkey has never went to medical school, but even I could have told this vet that he didn’t have shingle and this doctor, just by listening and not looking or touching could tell that this vet didn’t have shingles. These are the types of “doctors” the VA gets. They don’t give a rat’s ass about the vets.
Now I know that you are saying “But Monkey, it can’t be like that everywhere, it just has to be happening there!” Well faithful followers and you not so faithful, it’s not. There is/was a vet in Dallas Texas that was thrown in jail for doing what the VA TOLD him to do. Seems that this hero was depressed and was really ill, with cancer and was contemplating suicide and called the VA Suicide Hotline (now it should be pointed out that this vet called the hotline more than a few times because he was not able to be seen by the Dallas VA Mental Health and he wanted to talk to someone, which is what I would think a hotline like that is for) and was told by the hotline to go to the VA Emergency Room, once he got there he called back and told them that he was there, they called the VA “Police”, who arrested him for, get this… you ready?... Are you sure?...Well sit down cause this one will knock you on your ass, he was arrested for making harassing phone calls. He sat in jail until he was brought to court where thankfully the judge was a vet as well and throw the case out, but by then the cancer he had spread and when I last heard he only had six months to life and that was three months ago.
Now I can go on and on and on and on and so on and so forth but unless I can tell two people and they can tell two people and so on and so on and we come together as one and work FOR and not against or nations heroes it’s not going to mean a bucket of warm panther piss because people are just to self absorbed to give a shit. We, as a people, need to take care of our vets. We need to not only thank them for the sacrifices they AND their families make for this country but we need to give them a lot more than just one day a year.
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