It is good to have someone like General Shinseki heading the VA. He is certainly going to need our support. I have read of the great sounding plans to modernize the VA and look forward to seeing them carried out.
I am totally disabled 100% and I want to know when or if the recommendations for increasing our benefits is going to happen. Those recommendations, I can't remember the study name, called for a 25% increase to monthly benefits and for the VA to take into consideration and compensate for "pain and suffering" and "loss of income".(Please forgive me if I made a mistake in the above references, but that was the gist of their report.)
The updating of the VA infrastructure is important. To me though it is the rank and file that need to be shown some consideration and paid for their sacrifices. Why should our disabled Veterans, especially those who can't work, be paid less than what a decent salary would have provided them. The VA is paying me far less than I was making when I was forced to retire. "Retire" it sounds nice but, sitting around in constant pain unable to do even the simplest things isn't what I thought of as a retirement.
General Shinseki, it is time, please address this issue.
