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2014-05-17 Government

VA won't commit to firing employees who cooked the books.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 "Mad as hell" was he? I've seen a few "mad as hell" generals. He certainly didn't look or act like any of them. Theater, all theater.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-17 03:31|| 2014-05-17 03:31|| Front Page Top

#2 If you are a Vet and you go to a VA hospital...you are ...stupid and ( like Kerry said ) if you actually once HAD anything to offer you would have gotten a "real" job.

You want to know what the people in Washington DC think of you?
Go over there and lay in the corner and wait to die.

No?
I must have just imagined it then.

Posted by Big Thromoth3646 2014-05-17 04:43|| 2014-05-17 04:43|| Front Page Top

As Barbra Walters week draws to a close, it's always great to see Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon and supporting our veterans.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-17 07:59|| 2014-05-17 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't they give people like this (cooking the books) a big bonus and promotion?

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-05-17 08:49|| 2014-05-17 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 When so called "performance objectives" include targeted a numeric [see the veteran within 14 days], failure to meet the 'objective' can have adverse career impacts to include salary and promotion.

If you're not cheat'n, you're not winnin.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-17 08:57|| 2014-05-17 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 duuuuhhh, apologies.... 'targeted numerics.'

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-17 09:12|| 2014-05-17 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Millions for ~~Marie Antoinette~~ the first family and entourage junkets to China et al, but not one penny more for the VA care of veterans*. You know where these people stand and believe, not by their words, but by their actions - you peasants.

* if you don't have the staff, you can outsource it, if you have the money. America this is the one payer healthcare the socialists want you to have (exempting their top 5 percent of course, as always).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-17 09:34|| 2014-05-17 09:34|| Front Page Top

If you're not cheat'n, you're not winnin.
Gotta be Smokey

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-17 10:41|| 2014-05-17 10:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Meh, why NASCAR invented templates. FireBall Roberts wasn't all that tall. :)

Don't touch the F#c#k1ng Car!

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-17 10:50|| 2014-05-17 10:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Financial Times (behind all kinds of walls:)

Amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its healthcare reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal about its treatment of military veterans that has the potential to attract broad political condemnation of its competence.

If the FT is worried, then there's a problem.

Posted by Pappy 2014-05-17 10:59|| 2014-05-17 10:59|| Front Page Top

#11 the VA has plenty of money, its the incompetence and corruption that is killing my fellow vets.

Posted by bman 2014-05-17 11:15|| 2014-05-17 11:15|| Front Page Top

#12 .....its the incompetence and corruption that is killing my fellow vets.

...and the nation.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-17 11:32|| 2014-05-17 11:32|| Front Page Top

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