Bush appointee continues to bash vets

Sally Satel apparently didn't receive the memo that said her side isn't supposed to be in power anymore. Guess the letter got stolen by a burglar from the mail slot at her place.

Satel - who was named Conservative Fool Of The Day for 8/15/06 - is a psychiatrist affiliated with the extreme-right American Enterprise Institute. She was appointed by Bush to run the despicable TeenScreen program.

Satel's meme is a familiar one to anybody who's had the misfortune of having to deal with shrinks: She exaggerates nonexistent conditions as an excuse to support having people involuntarily committed or drugged - but she denies that real conditions exist at all. True to form, Sally Satel may be the nation's most prominent PTSD skeptic.

Satel scoffed at Vietnam and Iraq veterans who were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. She claimed PTSD is a scam devised by veterans looking for disability benefits, and she accused vets of "seeking a free ride."

Now the Obama administration is issuing new rules to streamline the way veterans with PTSD collect benefits. These new rules make the process more efficient and allow hundreds of thousands of veterans to access treatment that they were previously denied. The new guidelines also eliminate the burdensome requirement that forced veterans to provide paperwork from a specific war incident.

But what does Sally Satel think of all this? She said that "it is destructive to give someone total and permanent disability when they are in fact capable of working, even if it is not at full capacity."

You're an idiot, Sally.

If PTSD prevents somebody from working as much as they otherwise would, they're entitled to some benefits. End of story. I know, because I have PTSD from being abused by my former school.

Satel thinks America's brave veterans are just a bunch of lazy bums who'd rather collect disability than work.

Thankfully, Obama's White House doesn't give a damn what right-wing whack-a-doodles like Sally Satel and the American Enterprise Institute think. But the real tragedy is that the process for obtaining benefits wasn't streamlined earlier - all because Bush listened to morons like Satel.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/8/882586/-Obama-Administration-to-Cover-PTSD-for-ALL-Veterans)