Analyst's note:  Frankly this absolutely makes me sick .... delay, deny and lie .... simply unacceptable.  All this while while gobbling up our tax dollars and killing our veterans.  See VA Spends Close to $500 Million on Conference Room, Office Makeovers Under Obama!  and Vets Using Phoenix VA are Angry, Sick and Scared.  Also see 'If You Have a Choice Between Going to a Dumpster or to a VA Hospital, Head for the Dumpster Every Time' and VA inspector general's office was reportedly told of wait lists months before scandal broke.  Don't miss We are all veterans now

"[....] Barack Obama's Veterans Administration - one of our largest federal agencies - is not only ineffective, it is broken.  And more than that, it is a hotbed of corruption. 

So goes yet another Obama administration scandal. Not a potential scandal. A full blown scandal."

AESOP's Fable

THE SOLDIER and HIS HORSE
A Soldier gave his Horse a plentiful supply of oats in time of war, and tended him with the utmost care, for he wished him to be strong to endure the hardships of the field, and swift to bear his master, when need arose, out of the reach of danger. But when the war was over he employed him on all sorts of drudgery, bestowing but little attention upon him, and giving him, moreover, nothing but chaff to eat. The time came when war broke out again, and the Soldier saddled and bridled his Horse, and, having put on his heavy coat of mail, mounted him to ride off and take the field. But the poor half-starved beast sank down under his weight, and said to his rider, "You will have to go into battle on foot this time. Thanks to hard work and bad food, you have turned me from a Horse into an ass; and you cannot in a moment turn me back again into a Horse."

Parable Meaning:never abuse, nor discard, nor ignore the military in peacetime as it  may not respond successfully in war; AND this goes for our U.S. veterans to whom we are so indebted towards saving our Republic to remain intact as a strong nation.