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Posted on 5/16/14 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 5/16/14 at 1:32 pm
It is serious. Heads should roll over it.
But just keep in the back of your mind as you watch Republican Senators grandstand on it and feign outrage, they had the opportunity back in February to give a commitment to VA benefits and chose not to over petty election year politics. Obviously it wouldn't have had any impact on what occurred at the VA, but just something to keep in mind when they strut around demanding something be done.
Huffpost link, OMG
But just keep in the back of your mind as you watch Republican Senators grandstand on it and feign outrage, they had the opportunity back in February to give a commitment to VA benefits and chose not to over petty election year politics. Obviously it wouldn't have had any impact on what occurred at the VA, but just something to keep in mind when they strut around demanding something be done.
Huffpost link, OMG
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Posted on 5/16/14 at 1:37 pm to The Spleen
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But just keep in the back of your mind as you watch Republican Senators grandstand on it and feign outrage, they had the opportunity back in February to give a commitment to VA benefits and chose not to over petty election year politics
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Obviously it wouldn't have had any impact on what occurred at the VA,
So then why take a shot a Republicans now?
Posted on 5/16/14 at 1:41 pm to The Spleen
Why not hold the President's appointee and his staff responsible? And the President himself?
Blumenthal asks why Shinseki hasn't notified FBI of poss. criminal activity by VA records falsifiers. Shinseki hems & haws.
"I don't know what data is being assembled" for VA review.
Shinseki sez 3,000 VA workers "involuntary removed" for misconduct...but some reassigned or retired.
VA undersecretary Petzel hesitates & says "he doesn't know if it would be appropriate" to remove employees who falsify data.
When Shinseki says Deputy Chief of Staff Nabors & family are longtime friends, I wonder where the impartiality lays?
Shinseki "not aware" of book-cooking, "can't remember" getting fall 2013 OSC/OMC reports on VA ghost clinics, double-booking schemes.
eta- notice the problems, deaths and secret lists, PREDATE what you linked?
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VA medical centers defied some agency policies on supplying opiates to veterans in 2012, including simultaneously prescribing thousands of ex-troops with narcotic painkillers and psychoactive drugs -– a combination that’s been linked to lethal overdoses, a new audit shows
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Among the VA’s “take-home opioid patients,” 7,426 died in fiscal year 2012
Blumenthal asks why Shinseki hasn't notified FBI of poss. criminal activity by VA records falsifiers. Shinseki hems & haws.
"I don't know what data is being assembled" for VA review.
Shinseki sez 3,000 VA workers "involuntary removed" for misconduct...but some reassigned or retired.
VA undersecretary Petzel hesitates & says "he doesn't know if it would be appropriate" to remove employees who falsify data.
When Shinseki says Deputy Chief of Staff Nabors & family are longtime friends, I wonder where the impartiality lays?
Shinseki "not aware" of book-cooking, "can't remember" getting fall 2013 OSC/OMC reports on VA ghost clinics, double-booking schemes.
eta- notice the problems, deaths and secret lists, PREDATE what you linked?
This post was edited on 5/16/14 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 5/16/14 at 2:00 pm to The Spleen
It shouldn't be a surprise. The government, by definition, cannot efficiently allocate resources,
Posted on 5/16/14 at 2:13 pm to The Spleen
Everything is tied to pork or earmarks these days and they shot down line item vetoing some years back which would have prevented this and many other needed measures from going through.
Politicians pander to special interest money and little else.
Politicians pander to special interest money and little else.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 2:35 pm to The Spleen
This is one reason we need a complete change in Washington. So much corruption, and wasteful spending. We lavish billions on illegals and our own veterans suffer.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 3:02 pm to The Spleen
So, uh, cliffs anyone?
Posted on 5/16/14 at 3:25 pm to The Spleen
I say screw all the politicians. 
Posted on 5/16/14 at 6:43 pm to The Spleen
It doesn't help that you're basically encouraged to scam the system before you EAS.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 10:56 pm to The Spleen
You are a great poster and are better than this thread.
Posted on 5/17/14 at 11:49 am to The Spleen
I have yet to see in my lifetime a President, or his cabinet, truly make a legitimate commitment to Veteran Affairs. I don't give a frick who has been in office.
They should all be embarrassed that it's taken this long for anyone to make a stink about it.
They should all be embarrassed that it's taken this long for anyone to make a stink about it.
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