This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Texas VA Run Like A "Crime Syndicate" Claims Whistleblower
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
“For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate,” a whistleblower who works in the Texas VA told The Daily Beast. “People up on top are suddenly afraid they may actually be prosecuted and they’re pressuring the little guys down below to cover it all up.”
What’s worse, the documents show the wrongdoing going unpunished for years, even after it was repeatedly reported to local and national VA authorities. That indicates a new troubling angle to the VA scandal: that the much touted investigations may be incapable of finding violations that are hiding in plain sight.
- From the excellent Daily Beast article published yesterday: Exclusive: Texas VA Run Like a ‘Crime Syndicate,’ Whistleblower Says
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, you are probably well aware of the latest in a consistent stream of scandals that have rocked the Obama Administration since he took office over five years ago. Yes, I am referring to the Veterans Affairs (VA) scandal, and while you might think you have read enough on the topic, the following article is very important.
It tells the tale of a VA hospital in Texas that had institutionalized the practice of manipulating hospital wait lists many years ago. For example, all the way back in 2011, the VA’s inspector general investigated the Central Texas health-care system in response to complaints received. Despite finding that such manipulation was rampant, not a single VA official was disciplined. As you might expect, the practice continued and the hospital highlighted in this article actually received an award in the face of an OIG investigation!
As such, this story has much wider implications than the obvious one. It demonstrates why corruption, fraud and white-collar crime is metastasizing throughout the land. The rich and powerful have recognized the rule of law has been completely suspended when it comes to them. They realize that no matter what they do, the worst thing that will happen is a slap on the wrist. So they continue to eagerly commit crimes at every conceivable opportunity. Of course, it’s the crimes of the rich and powerful that affect the largest number of people, not the impoverished youth slinging a dime bag on some ghetto corner. But which one is getting locked up?
As I have said time and time again, this suspension of the rule of law for the so-called “elites” is the most cancerous thing pervading American society at the moment. Dealing with this will go a long way to solving a lot of other problems.
From The Daily Beast:
Last week, President Obama pledged to address allegations of corruption and dangerous inefficiencies in the veterans’ health-care system. But before the president could deliver on his pledge, the scandal has spread even further. New whistleblower testimony and internal documents implicate an award-winning VA hospital in Texas in widespread wrongdoing—and what appears to be systemic fraud.
Emails and VA memos obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast provide what is among the most comprehensive accounts yet of how high-level VA hospital employees conspired to game the system. It shows not only how they manipulated hospital wait lists but why—to cover up the weeks and months veterans spent waiting for needed medical care. If those lag times had been revealed, it would have threatened the executives’ bonus pay.
What’s worse, the documents show the wrongdoing going unpunished for years, even after it was repeatedly reported to local and national VA authorities. That indicates a new troubling angle to the VA scandal: that the much touted investigations may be incapable of finding violations that are hiding in plain sight.
For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate,” a whistleblower who works in the Texas VA told The Daily Beast. “People up on top are suddenly afraid they may actually be prosecuted and they’re pressuring the little guys down below to cover it all up.”
The current VA scandal broke in Phoenix last month, when a former doctor at a VA hospital there became the first whistleblower to gain national attention. The doctor’s allegations of falsified appointments—and veterans dying while they waited for treatment—unleashed a wave of similar claims from VA employees nationwide. In Cheyenne, Wyoming, Chicago, and Albuquerque, more VA whistleblowers came forward claiming that the same fraudulent scheduling was being used in the hospitals where they worked. At last count, the VA inspector general’s investigation had expanded to 26 separate facilities.
Though VA hospitals may be struggling with increasing patient loads and inadequate resources—including too few medical providers—they are punished for acknowledging those problems. The VA’s current system appears to reward executives’ accounting tricks that mask deep structural issues and impede real solutions.
Sounds a lot like our entire financial system.
According to Spann, Dr. Gordon Vincent, chief of radiology at Olin E. Teague Veterans Medical Center in Temple, Texas, didn’t just break VA policy by manipulating veterans’ appointments himself. He ordered VA employees across central Texas to engage in the same fraudulent practice.
The VA said it investigated Spann’s charges, and, after, finding nothing to substantiate the claims, cleared Vincent and the Texas VA.
We arrest someone every two seconds in America, largely for non-violent drug possession charges, yet the real criminals roam free to feast on society with zero repercussions.
But documents obtained by The Daily Beast appear to show Dr. Vincent doing precisely what Spann accused him of—the activities the VA said it could not substantiate.
By changing the desired date, Dr. Vincent, a VA section chief, was violating well-established scheduling rules detailed in an official VA memo from April 2010 and re-emphasized in a separate policy directive from June of that year. But forging veterans’ desired dates seems to have been widely considered a low-risk, high-reward form of cheating. Changing the dates made it seem as if patients were being seen within the prescribed 14-day window, which reflected well on the hospital and put its staff in line for bonuses.
For the veterans seeking care, however, it had no such benefits.
Anyone caught doing this to veterans should be locked up for decades.
The document described above is only one piece of evidence in a larger docket against Vincent, which is itself part of a larger record of corruption in the VA that extends far beyond Vincent or any one individual. In 2011, the VA’s inspector general investigated the Central Texas health-care system in response to complaints it had received. The inspector general found that manipulated appointments were widespread and hid significant delays, but the report doesn’t seem to have led to a single VA official being disciplined or officially held responsible for gaming the system.
"I saw the press release saying it wasn’t Vincent or any of the executives, that the schedulers were entering the desired dates incorrectly but they were not directed to do so by management. That’s just not true and we’ve got mountains of evidence proving it,” the clinician told The Daily Beast.
“Every doctor, nurse, and clerk in the hospital knows it’s true, but the VA’s investigative team wasn’t able to find any evidence,” the clinician said. “They didn’t interview any of us or really try to find out what was going on. This was reported in 2011 and it’s still not fixed today.”
The Central Texas management parroted the inspector general’s findings when the hospital applied for a “Robert W. Carey Performance Excellence Award.” According to the clinician, in the hospitals award application they actually listed as an accomplishment that they had found “front line staff” incorrectly using desired dates in the scheduling process and fixed the problem. It must have been convincing. Despite the OIG investigation, the hospital won the award.
What does it say that a VA hospital with this many complaints has not only avoided an accounting—but actually received awards?
It tells you all you need to know about the state of affairs across virtually all institutions and multi-national corporations. As I have said many times before, the primary driver of U.S. GDP at the moment is corruption, fraud and criminality.
Full article here.
»
- 14167 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
But isn't socialism great for the people?
USSA
If this doesn't show that our government view soldiers as cannon fodder, nothing will convince them. Please don't fight or die for the the scum that runs our government.
“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” Henry Kissinger
With all these whistleblowers coming forward shouldn't Obama be revving up the domestic drones with hellfire missiles to take out the little squealers?
Armed militia, bands of brothers, free men, guerrilla marksmen, freedom fighters, insurrectionists, assymetric insurgents, rebels: this is the standing army of America. We are not hessians or mercenaries. We are free men and the gold belongs in our pockets as rifles belong in our hands. God Bless America, and its Fighting (not Warring, not Bloodlusting) Spirit. Death to the Oppressors.
Deleted
Similar post below @1000yrdstare.
Welcome to Obamacare
Amuika! Amurika! gwod shred his gwace on flee!
Fraud Flam and Flim
Amputate my gangrenous limb
Then dock me a special fee...
I shudder to think how much more of a fucked up, evil, murdering cabal we would have if we were not History's Indespensible People, occupying That City Shining On A Hill.
AKA: Terrorist
Ronin.
Keep joining the service you dumb fucks. Serve your country with pride.
This veteran told me the other day how a young teen thanked him, with tears in his eyes, for defeating the combined Naval Power of the Caliphate of Iraq and Afghanastan, and in a pitched battle sinking 11 Iraqi Super Carriers and not less than 10 Afghani goat transports in the battle of the Chick Pea Sea.
He said it was a close run thing but with the help of Jesus and a sleet storm of Harpoon Brand Cruise Missiles the Demonic forces were completely wiped out and never made it to our shores thus enabling us to continue our slow devolution into 4th world debt peonage.
In other news record illegal immigrants continue to cross the border unimpeded getting ready for the mass amnesty.
I'd write more but I'm off to the beach in the hope that some of the invasion goats survived and washed ashore; gotta get a jump on setting up my goat farm and mud barn.
The future of Obamacare is being played out before us. Soon we will all be traveling to Mexico for healthcare.
Speaking of which, should we start pooling out funds an open up Health Insusrance and Medical facilities South of the Border? Might be a good investment.
Come to Cancun for a hip replacement and recover from surgery on the beach. Just a thought.
"The future of Obamacare is being played out before us."
That.
That's why he had to sound so angry in his last speech. Someone sees the connection. The problem is the problem they see is perception, not the system. They love the system.
Already under construction in the D.R.
Health "tourism" for the wealthy is going to be huge when this abomination gets rolling.
It is already happening, far more than you realize. Heart surgery in India, plastic surgery in Colombia, Mexico, and Costa Rica, just to name a few. As Obamacare comes into full effect, the medical tourism industry will only grow, lead by a stampede of American healthcare professionals who can't deal with the bullshit anymore.
Yep. I call it mass murder. The case isn't even slightly ambiguous - every vet dead due to delays is a second-degree murder, committed in the commission of another felony - fraud. http://thebullelephant.com/murder-numbers/
"Anyone caught doing this to veterans should be locked up for decades."
The author is correct, but there is a chasm filled with corruption and bureacrats between "should" and "will".
Who will arrest "them"? Who will prosecute "them"? Who will sentence "them"? Answer: no one, because they'd have to subect their selves to the same process (considering that they themselves are a pack of lawbreaking impunity-granting pieces of shit).
Don't hold your breath waiting, else with a few deleted and amended entries some VA fraudster might turn your 2 minute breathholding into a 2 hour activity...and collect a bonus for doing so.
Flashpoints are emerging nationwide, and it's a matter of time until the bread and circuses stop dousing the public's consciousness thereof.
If the local VA execs (i.e. collectors of fraudulent bonuses) were murdered tomorrow, then during then juror selection process for the killers' trial I'd proudly say, "Not guilty!" The judge and prosecutor would reply, "But you haven't yet heard the facts of the case." To which my refrain would be, "NOT...FUCKING...GUILTY!" Been voting since 1980 and still have yet to be called for jury duty.
For punishment, we can send them to the VA hospital for brain surgery.
"-1" Is that you Dr. Vincent ?
Flash forward to May 29, 2024: "Obamacare Run Like A Crime Syndicate, Claims Whistleblower"
Wonder who did the one, lone, sole down vote?
Can those with frontal lobotomies muster the wherewithal to register here?
Lobotomies are most definitely covered under Obamacare. In fact, they are encouraged.
Silly me!! And I always thought these people were OUR employees!!
Whenever I hear that they work for "us" I can never remember when "I" hired them.
... somebody wanted more freebies and I guess it wasn't you ...
on the plus side they get to keep their Doctors as Obama promised!
The Greatest DeGeneration continues....
The issues with the VA hospitals delivering health care is rampant system wide... the root of the problem is the massive bureaucracy.... the bottom line is there are more people who are bureaucrats, paper pushers and do nothings than those who have hands on care of the patients in that system... in this massive bureaucracy many if not most of the decisions regarding how to take care of patients and how it is to be delivered comes from the Washington DC central VA bureaucracy... you have in such a system people who do NOT take care of patients telling those who do how to take care of patients. You will see this bureaucratic delivery of health care phenomenon in any large, bureaucratic health system, VA or not. The paper pushers and do nothing bureaucrats far outnumber those who actually take care of patients in these systems.
So, "hang on to your butts" (Samuel L. Jackson in Jurassic Park) because VA quality of care is coming to your neighborhood soon courtesty obamascare which favors behemoth bureaucratic hospital systems.... aren't you glad they elected and re-elected the ruling political elite turds that passed this "we have to pass it to find out what's in it" law??? BTW, those same political elite turds voted to exempt themselves from obamascare....
Hey Kerry, listen up. Criminal activity is being reported to proper channels and NOTHING happens. So shut the fuck up and stop calling Snowden a traitor for trying to stop the criminal activity.
Wow! you mean to tell me that there is corruption in another .GOV program? Hey everyone! BIG FUCKING GOVERNMENT IS A CRIME SYNDICATE!...(now, make sure you all run out to vote...)
Sad thing is....it's the same here in Florida. To the extent that Governor Skeletor is suing the VA for blocking Florida State Health inspectors from checking into this situation. Just read what this VA attorny cocksucker had to say to our Florida reps....
"It is my understanding that AHCA representatives have continued to arrive unannounced at VA medical centers within the state of Florida," said a recent letter sent to state officials by the VA's top attorney, Will Gunn. "Please be advised that VA and its medical centers are components of the federal government and as such are not subject to Florida laws."
What fucking chutzpah !!!
Sadder still.....Gov. Skeletor is a scandal ridden politician in his own right because his company Columbia/HCA was dinged for nearly 2 billion dollars for Medicaid fraud. So this is a battle between a hypocrite and a complete douchebag federal agency.
If I were governor.....I'd roll up to every VA hospital with a contigency of Florida State National Guard troops and dare any of those motherfuckers including that cocksucker Will Gunn to not let my state inspectors in.
Or....just claim Eminent Domain and take the property over. And then send in the inspectors.....with the National Guard leading the way.
These Federal fucks are killing our veterans. It's time for governors to grow some balls and roll the National Guard in.
Here's the story of Governor Skeletor suing the V.A.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/gov-rick-scott-sues-f...
Wow..thats crazy.
As fucked up as Jersey is, the VA here hasn't suffered the same problems I'm reading here.
My father (a vet) loves his doctor (a vet) 2 knee replacments and other minor ailments taken care of with genuine concern. pops dosen't want to go anyware else, even with the commute.
I hope they get this shit together
"...VA and its medical centers are components of the federal government and as such are not subject to Florida laws."
A physician does NOT need a state-issued license to practice medicine in order to practice in the VA system, which says a lot about the overall quality of VA care.
Still, the "no license required" policy does tend to attract the more freedom-oriented, small-L libertarian medical professionals.
This is aweful, but I fear the new direction of every aspect of our lives if we continue to give freedom away in this new age wholesale manner.
Since when is the govt good at running anything? The EPA has a long history of mismanagement and lack of accountability. So does the SEC. Now healthcare? This VA hospital debacle is just a precurser to the nightmare we are to experience under obozocare.
The VA healthcare system is THE pattern for the ACA.
The ACA = 2700+ pages of societal control.
It has nothing to do health or care.
The US military is just a tool for the global banksters. The banksters view them in the same light as Mexican landscapers in the civilian world. It's a shame our kids are being used.
They wouldn't allow their children to become a tool to die for them.
No surprise those in the government have this view. Who funds the politicans? Follow the money.
The whistleblowers are going to face a fate worse than dying at the hands of a retarded VA asshat: namely being audited by a retarded IRS asshat.
Is everyone sick of this fucking federal govt yet? From top to bottom, it is infested with elected and unelected incompetent pricks who feel not only entitled to your money, but also now to your liberty and life. I fucking hope DC gets nuked. Fuck em.
"Blame Bush" press conference to be convened in 3... 2... 1...
.....0
BOOM !!!
http://washingtonexaminer.com/nancy-pelosi-blames-george-w.-bush-for-vet...
http://americanlibertypac.com/2014/05/nancy-pelosi-blames-george-w-bush-...
It's all those wars the democrats didn't vote for ... no, wait -
Federal Government employees lie, people die. The norm.
Heads must roll.
The only heads rolling around are in Obama's mouth.
Heads will not roll. Shinseki will be sent away (with his full pension and.... VA benefits!). Obama will launch an "investigation" that will never see the light of day. Congress largely the same with hearings until we're through the 2014 election cycle. Then it all goes away, not to be given coverage again until Hillary Clinton is in her second term.
And, of course, nobody goes to jail.
Shinseki will not be sent away with full pension.......He will be given a free one year vacation with full pay (administrative leave). Then he will be promoted into another position at twice his current pay. He will stay there a few years and gain the right to have two full pensions. During his stay he will mull over the possibilities of murdering a few hundred or thousand other US citizens and repeating the same process again. After which, he will qualify for 3 full US pensions. Then he will move back to his homeland and rape the US the rest of his life. Ain't it grand.
I love all the affirmative action politicians who have been promoted to their level of incompetence. The Peter Principal.
Better yet....he'll become a highly paid think tank member and paid "analyst" for MSNBC or Fox News.
Oh...yeah....forgot about the book.....and the speaking tour....at $100,000 a pop.
Make that "Expert Health Care Analyst".
You nailed it.
I'm starting to think that those "speaking fees" come indirectly from "Belgium", as well as the salary of the typical Vice-President for Community Relations that some Chicagoland medical centers employ, from time to time, as the situation may demand.
Yeah I get the gist of this. Allow a whisleblower to come forward and then "reform" the VA and basically destroy the VA system. This is the plan.
Good catch. "Never waste a good crisis."
Obamacare is proving to be less lucrative than planned for the big hospitals who assisted in writing it with the big insurance and pharma companies. So what does one do? Take a criminal abjection of VA obligations and turn it into a money tree for themselves.
http://news.yahoo.com/va-approves-more-private-care-veterans-212250950--...
https://www.google.com/search?q=va+to+allow+private+hostpitals&ie=utf-8&...
And being that all of the propaganda media outlets are spouting the same "talking-point" and "whoo-hoo" lines, one gets the sense that the fix is/was in.
"Only the criminals of government could turn corruption and theft into more corruption and theft."
Kerry is supposed to be very busy today, too busy to testify re Benghazi. Anyone know where JF Kerry is today?
He's in the barn, getting re-shoed.
merely business as usual
There is no criminality in government as there is not penalty clauses which are enforced.
Here's the take away. The rule of law is dead. That which doesn't apply to them, doesn't apply to me. Enforcement will come at the barrel of a gun, theirs and ours.
"...en lugar de la justicia, busqué la cuatificación...."
In place of justice, I sought cronyism.
Rafael Bernal -- "El complot mongol" [novel, 1969]
Everything is run like shit these days. As long as there are humans, there will be some degree of corruption and gaming whatever system is in place, but what we're experiencing is over the top. There are so many bureaucratic rules that nothing is allowed to run well, and thus, fraud has become the status quo.
How is this NOT like scrappers who scrounge for (and often 'steal') copper and aluminum to turn in for reclamation?
BOTH are working to 'hollow out' america, one on a human level and the other on a physical infrastructure level.
But Obama said they could keep their doctors!
Oh...you CAN keep your doctor. You're life....well....that's another matter altogether.
2009 VA budget - $87.6 Billion
2014 VA budget - $152.7 Billion
280,000 employees "serving" 6.5 million veterans
Total cost = $23,500 per year per veteran.
This can't be fixed. Shut it down. Claw back the bonuses. Arrest those responsible for causing the deaths and let the private sector serve these veterans.
Oh, and about John McCain feigning anger...give me a break. This didn't happen overnight. He's been in office for 30 years. This happned on his watch.
Assuming about 100k salary + benefits that means about 20% of the VA budget is for the staff. Infuckingsane.
Add to that it means the average staff services 23 VA cases per year (6.5M into 280k), which is 2 cases per month, or over 80 hours per case.
Govt efficiency at its fucking finest.
Cracks me up how Oblowhard commented that people need to be less cynical about government. Yeah ... less cynical ... yeah, fuck you up the ass Obama with a pushbroom ... sideways, you govt-humping cunt.
And let us not forget about this story from 2011...
Family: V.A. Cops Stomped On Veteran’s Head, Killing Himhttp://dailycaller.com/2014/05/27/family-alleges-va-police-killed-vet/
Charles Dickens wrote the following about the English Legal System in 1853. It can be found at the beginning of Chapter 39 of "Bleak House." I have taken the liberty to substitute government for English law. Nothing has change in over 150 years.
"The one great principle of government is to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble. But not perceiving this quite plainly — only seeing it by halves in a confused way — the laity sometimes suffer in peace and pocket, with a bad grace, and DO grumble very much. "
It is a Dickensian world we live in now....isn't it ?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Tale of Two Cities
“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.”
? Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
The Law by Bastiat is the tiniest book (about 62 pages), but has the hardest punch against the rulers and their "instrument of plunder," the law, that has ever been written. If one were to read one and only one book in an effort to bring understanding and clarity to the world of today, this book would be it.
And next time a pol, crat or gun and badge thug tells you, "It's the law," you will know what they mean more than they do.
http://mises.org/books/thelaw.pdf
http://mises.org/books/TheLaw.epub
Just wait 'till the CIC finds out!
va hospitals will be perfect for obamacare. they should just nationalize all sick care into a single slayer system
"they should just nationalize all sick care into a single slayer system"
ROTFLMAO !!!! That's BRILLIANT !!!! +1000
The VA is a crisis and just a tip of the iceberg as we have become a nation of "stat rats" and it's sad and this goes all the way up to the White House and Congress on how we get fooled by numbers as you have to remember there are those on the other side that will game the system..smart people on both sides and due to the gaming here, people died. When this broke I went over to the VA message boards and you know what, the VA appears to not read them I kind of assumed as you will get an earful with them discussing amongst themselves about the problems they have.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/05/va-crisis-just-tip-of-iceberg-as-...
Nice that the VA will make accommodations for Vets to go to private hospitals too as private hospitals would love to get paid as I see in the LA area, when the ERs get full Vets end up being told they can go visit a private hospital around the corner. What happens here then is that many of the Vets are older who don't have Medicare B or C or Tri-Care so the hospitals eat it as take care of the Vets under their charity write offs, so yes they would love to get paid for taking care of our Vets when the load is over what the VA can handle.
I keep saying this over and over that people can't tell the difference anymore between "real world values" and "virtual values" and here's one more case to where false virtual values hurt people and it happens in the regular insurance world too.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/03/virtual-worlds-real-world-we-have...
Look at what Wellpoint is doing with paying oncologists now to use their cancer treatment regimens, paying MDs 350.00 per patient to use what "Wellpoint" says is best.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/05/wellpoint-begins-new-oncology-pro...
VA situation is a tragedy -
But are the people running the VA really considered to be "the rich and powerful"?
"As such, this story has much wider implications than the obvious one. It demonstrates why corruption, fraud and white-collar crime is metastasizing throughout the land. The rich and powerful have recognized the rule of law has been completely suspended when it comes to them."
If the VA bureaucrats are now considered to be part of the rich / powerful elite - the TPTB if you will - then we are truly fucked.
No, the VA is not a crime syndicate: Syndicates don't take guns away from their own people.
I'm just amazed that people continue to voluntarily sign up for the military given the little benefits associated with the "job". Maybe this is all good if numbers of willing "killers for hire" drop ..
Let me say, I have some experience inside government and inside the military. Just when I was young, but enough years to know how government supervisors and managers work inside Federal Government Agencies. Let me be clear. Mafia is too mild a word! Those who gain high government positions, and supervisor and manager positions inside the Federal Civil Service and government agencies are criminal in nature and psychopathic by birth. I saw people in charge who were stupid, evil, criminal and mentally psychopathic. That is why I got out as fast as I could go. These people are like Soviet Communist Commissars.
“For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate,” a whistleblower who works in the Texas VA told The Daily Beast. “People up on top are suddenly afraid they may actually be prosecuted and they’re pressuring the little guys down below to cover it all up.”
Government in a nut shell.
"Is it time for the guillotines yet?!"
Waaayyy past time, my friend.
"Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week"
more like past 3 decades.
This isn't an Obama thing, the president is NOT a micromanager of every bureaucracy, people complain to their congressman when they have problems with federal agencies NOT THE PRESIDENT.
This is Senate warmonger #1 John McCain's home turf, remember he wanted to send troops into Iran, Syria, Georgia, S Ossetia and ukraine to steal oil on the EU behalf.
International warmongering for broke Socialist banker Jews has liabilities beyond the dead, most injured homecoming troops DON'T dump their middle class wife and family and move in with a hot young wealthy Socialite to pick up the medical tab, (also helped being the admiral's son).
McCain was behind the S&L looting, then sub-prime looting and bailout theft and cost shifts from foreign banks, and burning American blood and treasure and growing fat and rich every step of the way.
John mcCain is a embasarrment to human males.
'
VA Secretary Is On ‘Thin Ice’
TND Editor’s Note: During the State of the Union before America’s unproved and illegal attack on Iraq, the mainstream media made the mistake of capturing on live television General Eric Shinseki, then Army Chief of Staff, visibly shaking his head in a “no” fashion as the Liar in Chief told the American people that the intelligence proved the need for America to go to war. Shinseki knew the war was a fraud. Say what one will about the current VA scandal, but there are indications that Shinseki has been honestly trying to clean up the VA. As far as I’m concerned, Shinseki has proven himself to be a man of integrity over the years. – Eric Dubin
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=160631
Eric Shinseki staying or going won't make a difference. The real criminals are the untouchable federal employees that continue to f*ckup but still continue to collect a paycheck, healthcare, a bloated retirement and daily doses of porn at their desks.
puh-leeze. There is NO WAY anyone can make it to general grade without being a sociopath and being a fully trusted part of that 'in crowd' of co-conspiring sociopaths.
No decent person could do the job he did for those various administrations. Being caught one time accidentally communicating just how false everything is, does not make him any kind of saint!
Who said he was a saint? All I said was that there are indications he tried to address the problems at the VA and that the guy was not all bad, citing an additional example. If anything, I'm likely more cynical and skeptical than either of you -- but don't take what I said and frame it into something I didn't say. The guy is a "fall guy" - a scapegoat. Calling that out is just as important as pointing to the general level of corruption that pervades the system.
If Shinskei were "a man of integrity" he would not be a crat within the criminal DC US government. He would be outside railing against these treasonous criminals.
And if he were so really against the war in Iraq, he would have resigned in protest before its commencement and then yelled about it from the highest Internet mountain tops.
Sorry, but he's guilty.
Replace "Texas VA" with "The Government". The whole thing is a crime syndicate.
O'bummercare is bound to be much better.
Just too many soldiers returned back from battlefield.
And if you paid your taxes like good little sheeple....
America, the only country where citizens pay to be abused by their government and then whine about it...