Gyroscopic Investing

For a country always at war, the United States is remarkably not interested in taking care of soldiers it has broken in its wars. Having bankrupted the country, Washington sinks every available penny into the two purposes of the military: funneling money into the arms industry, and fueling imperial ambitions, in large part of pasty fern-bar Napoleons at National Review and Commentary. The Veterans Administration is way back in the chow line. It doesn’t work very well. As best I can tell, nobody cares.

Read the rest here...
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Troops.shtml

It's a sad mess.
Reading this might give you a glimmer of hope: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013 ... ary-eric-k
It says a paperless claim system is now(!) being introduced. About time! Lets hope it works...

Fred lost an eye in Vietnam so he knows whereof he speaks when it comes to the V.A.

Love him or hate him, Fred pulls no punches.

It's sadly ironic, but the dramatic reductions in U.S. combat deaths through improved body armor and faster battlefield evacuations and trauma treatment may ultimately just expose troops who would have otherwise died on the battlefield to an entirely different type of enemy in the form of the VA bureaucracy, which wounded veterans often must battle for the rest of their lives.

I can't imagine trying to cope with the loss of a limb or two and a damaged brain that resulted from being too close to the blast that tore off my body parts and ALSO having to deal with a stupid bureaucracy that made me wander around the system like a rat in a maze reacting to constantly changing cheese rumors.