If I had a person here waiting for six month, a year, or 30 years for a rating, what you are saying does not mean anything.

I mean, it is like you are trying to fix a mouse trap that does not work, does not trap mice, just traps veterans.

You are so afraid that one veteran is going to commit fraud. I talked to some of your officers and they said, well, there are guys that are going to lie. Come on. Ninety-nine percent of them are not and we can live with one.

Insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and that you expect a different result.

What are you so afraid of, of having to accept this massive, massive bureaucracy which you said, Mr. Hall, veterans comes first, but you yourself are not putting the veterans first?

the system as Congressman Filner points out is incredibly complex and all of us who work with veterans' benefits, if we do not learn something new every day, then it is a day wasted.

When I hear all this stuff, by the way, I figure I can give a million dollars to some 20-year-old geek and he would solve it within a few weeks.

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.

We do not need all these thousands of employees and bureaucracy after bureaucracy after bureaucracy.

Your testimony, read your testimony, it needs to be blown up.

Let's grant those claims. Forget the suffering. Forget all the presumptiveness. Forget all the studies.