Question
This is my second year with a vegetable garden and there are slugs all over everything. I am going out of my mind keeping up with them and I am losing. They also get to my flowers. I have tried the beer in the saucer in the ground method but it only gets a few and I have probably hundreds if not thousands. Sprinkles of salt on them is equally weak. I am almost ready to buy a chemical slug destroyer but if you have an organic method I will try it, your urgent help is requested.

Answer
My usual anti-Slug fortification -- Coffee Grounds -- do not work in the case of your Vegetable Garden, reason being the Coffee Grounds will infuse the essence of the Coffee Bean into your Tomatoes and Carrots and any other veggie you are growing nearby.  For flowers, however, Coffee Grounds are all you need to send Slugs packing.

For your Vegetables, and as backup for the rest of the Garden, you can try beneficial microscopic nematodes.  On this, I have good news, and I have bad news.

Good news: Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is the Nematode control most often cited.  Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Service says Phasmarhabditis attacks a slew of Slug and Snails in the Garden:

http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/pathogens/phasmarhabditis_h.html

It is sold in the UK as 'Nemaslug'.

Now, the Bad news: This parasite is not yet commercially available in the U.S.

The English Gardening website claims that Native Americans 'used to suck on a Slug when they had a toothache':

http://www.english-gardening.com/green_up_your_thumb/pest_diseases/slugs_snails....

Until this particular Nematode is available in the U.S., you will have to settle for the usual Diatomaceous Earth (the white powder that stings Slugs as they slither over it) or the electric shock-producing Copper tape barrier.  I agree, contains of Beer do not address a serious Slug problem.

Let me caution you against use of the Decollate Predatory Snail, Rumina decollata, known as a Slug eater.  These Decollates don't limit their diets to Slugs; they are crazy about fruit, vegetables, flowers and foliage, too.