If you want to see what ObamaKare looks like, look at the current VA. The VA is the minor leagues, and ObamaKare is the majors.
God bless David Scott for DARING to make this statement in public for all to see.
However, the American Media Maggots will not broadcast this video far and wide. They will do their best to ensure you will NOT see this video for even a few seconds.
Take it away David Scott:
And there you have it. From HotAir.com:
Via the Free Beacon, watch to the very end for the crucial counterpoint to Obama’s nonsense this morning. Namely, the VA’s problems are very well documented. When O harrumphs that he needs to study the problem or whatever, he’s transparently doing nothing more than buying time to plot his next move politically. He’s the guy who was calling VA wait times an “urgent” problem seven years ago. Now, suddenly, he needs a few weeks or months or years for you to lose interest to get to the bottom of all this. And the fact that it’s a Democrat, not a Republican, who’s on the floor laying that out tells me this is now a five-alarm fire inside a caucus that’s already panicked about being burned to the ground this November by Obama’s unpopularity. If he’s at 42 percent today, where’s he going to be in a month when his passivity, inaction, and — to borrow a Bush-era phrase beloved by the left — incuriosity about veterans languishing from VA corruption and sclerosis are firmly on the public’s radar? Wait until they find out that he hasn’t even formally met with Shinseki in nearly two years.
Thank you, Representative Scott, for daring to state something that, unfortunately, won’t be covered or mentioned by your compatriots. You appear to stand alone for a bit but at least you took a public stand. Forty veterans have likely DIED while simply waiting for care that was due and promised to them.
On the other hand, Mr Obama, you said and pledged and promised to build a “21st century VA” that would take care of our veterans. Video of you saying that, here.
And to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki I say:
You sniveling jackanape.
You think you inherited a problem-free environment? Were you that stupid?
You sacrificed your fellow veterans and failed — FAILED — to take care of them and honor them and look out for them. They were the least capable to help themselves whilst, simultaneously, you were tasked to help them. How could you possibly not do everything within your power to help each and every veteran having landed in a VA hospital?
Let me please state the obvious, Mr Shinseki: these veterans did not land in VA hospitals because they were happy and fulfilled and whole and uninjured.
They landed in VA hospitals because they were shot or blow apart or lost limbs or had extremities sawed off or had their minds inexorably altered by war and explosions and the searing redness of seeing their friends torn apart.
And you, sir, upon an Army Chief of Staff’s retirement — which is very, very generous — additionally served as a director for Honeywell, Ducommon, Grove Farm Corporation, First Hawaiian Bank and Guardian Life Insurance.
Let’s look at your portrait here, sir:
Once proud and true; an actual warrior. You now make me ashamed, sir.
Since then you seem to have forgotten more than you have ever learned. You are a minute shadow of your former self.
With you in mind, here is my goal at my advanced at of 63 and in my lowly position of Sergeant: my job is to ensure that, every shift, my troops go home at end of watch
As a supervisor for my Sheriff’s Department, my job is not to do anyone else’s job; not to do my Lieutenant’s job, not to do my Captain’s job, not to do the job of a deputy. But still, to ensure that each and every person on my watch goes home safely and securely, no matter the cost or the advocation.
Because my job is to be an advocate for my troops unless and until they prove themselves unworthy of my advocation.
Safety rules all. It trumps job or goal or mission. Because if my troops aren’t safe and secure, then no one else can be safe or secure.
If this country cannot take care of 85 million Americans via the VA — then how can it possibly take care of 300 million Americans?
BZ
