The Department of Veterans Affairs is disgraceful. And it’s no secret that Barack Hussein Obama dislikes our military, our veterans, and what they represent to his Leftist way of thinking.
So Mr Barack Hussein Obama owns the current state of the VA whether he likes it or not. He owns it. He would much rather disown it. And that shows.
A 2014 investigation already revealed that veterans were dying while waiting for the most cursory of treatments. The resulting April 2016 GAO report shows that not much has changed. See it here.
The new secretary, a veteran civilian product of Proctor & Gamble, Robert McDonald, was supposed to have fixed the problem but now is only exacerbating it — despite the US government having tossed in an additional $10 billion more dollars for the alleged “repair” to the system. And roughly 9 million veterans are enrolled in VA health care. There are about 319 million persons in the US. Even I can do that math.
First, the current secretary is a lickspittle moron. And so sad, because he is himself a veteran. Witness, from the WashingtonPost.com:
VA chief compares waits for veteran care to Disneyland: They don’t measure and we shouldn’t either
by Lisa Rein
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald, under pressure to be more transparent about how VA measures wait times for veteran care, on Monday said the government should be more like Disneyland.
Disney doesn’t track how long visitors wait in line for attractions at its theme parks to decide if they liked their experience, he said. So the VA should not be held to the same standard for medical appointments for veterans.
“When you go to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line? Or what’s important?” McDonald told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
“What’s important is, what’s your satisfaction with the experience?”
Oh my God. You really went there. You ignorant fucktard. Disney does in fact tell you how long the waits are on their rides, and they provide a Fast Pass should you desire. Your comments were not only rude, in bad taste, but based upon nothing but air and lies and ignorance and deceit. You of all people should know that “let them eat cake and let them wait online” won’t play.
People have died waiting in your “lines,” McDonald. It was proven. Not just “a few people.” But perhaps 300,000. Click the link. These are not statistics I am pulling out of my ugly, hemorrhoid-ridden ass.
But then, beyond that, the VA decided that a fond course would be that of lying about those selfsame statistics. Yes. The VA LIED about service times. The VA lied about our Special Forces.
Even more disgusting, McDonald actually LIED about himself having served in the Special Forces. LIED.
This is a point that will be IGNORED BY THE AMERICAN MEDIA MAGGOTS.
The problem is that the bulk of the VA is populated with various GS ranks who are union-protected. The secretary needs to be empowered with the ability to fire people but cannot. It is the overwhelming bureaucracy that government places not just on the civilian sector but upon itself as well — and the VA is one such result.
The major problem is that, unlike Disneyland, our veterans can die from having to wait for their ailments to be diagnosed, much less treated. I don’t see people dropping dead in Disney’s wait lines.
To compare having to wait an extra 30 minutes for a rollercoaster with our warriors who have served this nation either by draft or volunteering is reprehensible.
Further, it’s not just a matter of our veterans being compared to cartoon characters, it’s the fact that a recent report indicates that VA employees in at least SEVEN states were told to falsify wait times.
It’s not just that the VA is insufficient. It’s that the VA is insufficient and that it provides false statistics and then LIES about these facts in order to bury the dollars that were spent there for higher administrators. In other words: useless personnel who could NOT attend to actual patients.
Like Robert McDonald.
Robert McDonald needs to go. A person that dismissive, that dense, tone deaf and cavalier about our veterans needs to be fired with harsh impunity. He already has a nice private pension. Let him live off that and cease the double- and triple-dipping. Yes, he “made a stupid mistake.” He is “being pounced-on.” But if you are sufficiently stupid to make such a comment, you are not the person to advance the VA. Fine. Make those comments in private. But you were hired NOT to be stupid or make the same mistakes of your predecessors. Accountability? Responsibility? Fuck you. You need to go. You have proven yourself to be JUST ANOTHER CAREERIST.
But instead now: boo-hoo. You’re “picking on McDonald.” Right. Robert McDonald. That means he’ll only be able to afford a tune-up for his Mercedes-Benz S Class instead of his once-anticipated 2016 Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Here is a Truism. The US Military does not, in general, vote Democrat. That bespeaks volumes. Volumes.
There are only two hopes for the VA:
- That it is privatized, and/or
- That DC politicians are forced into its system for their medical care
Then and only then would things change.
Until that point, the callousness of the federal bureaucracy will continue to kill some of the best of our United States citizens, who have served and only want what was promised to them.
And that is: just a bit of care and concern.
BZ
P.S.
Elitist. Phony. Power hungry. Control freak. Dishonest. Statist. Wooden. Cynical. Obsessive. Lazy. Lack of dignity. Pandering. Arrogant. Incompetent.
Oh wait.
I’m not describing McDonald.
Sorry.
I was saving those descriptors for Hillary Clinton.
My bad.
