Yet Another Government Outrage: VA Officials Given Hefty Bonuses
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
by Gary A. Ballard
It has become an indisputable fact that the Bush administration is one which rewards failure in all its forms. The examples are legion. We have the promotion of Condi Rice from the top National Security Post to Secretary of State despite her overseeing the greatest national security intelligence blunder in history. George Tenet receives a Medal of Freedom, ostensibly for overlooking evidence that contradicted the administration's public statements about Saddam's WMD's. Competence, forthrightness and efficiency are not rewarded in the Bush administration, unless these qualities are accidentally attached to unquestioning obsequiousness. Failing upward is a Bushie trademark. But some days, the bullshit just gets to be too much. Today is one such day. How else but incoherent, frothing rage is one to react to this story about Veterans Affairs officials receiving sizable bonuses?
Is this supposed to be the sign of a functioning, small government? These assholes are the same ones who determine budgets for places like Walter Reed Army Medical Center. These bloodsucking profiteers are the ones who set budets for the department, a department created to pay claims to those brave Americans who are wounded in our wars, including the wars we don't need like Iraq. Anyone who has had veterans in their family can attest to the insane amount of time it takes such medical claims to crawl through the bureaucratic belly of the VA. My grandfather used to complain of that problem in the 80's and early '90's and over a decade later, it's still a problem. According to this story, claims take an AVERAGE of 177 days to be paid, over SIX FUCKING MONTHS for wounded verterans to recieve any sort of promised recompense for their sacrifice.
And these fuckers get bonuses? Some of the officials who received a bonus were the same sniveling bitches who used fallacious accounting to hide a $1 billion shortfall in their budget from Congress, most likely because President Bush didn't want to ask for more money for veterans in his budget. While the bonuses these assheads received were not of the obscene amounts that Raging Douchebags like State Farm's Ed Rust, Jr. received, they were still sizeable, some ranging as high as $33,000. I can guarantee you that a vet with a prosthetic leg is a fuckton more deserving of that much money than a burueacrat gathering saddle sores riding a desk in Washington. That $33,000 could probably have gone a long way to removing mold from some rooms at Walter Reed. It might even have paid for an exterminator so the vets wouldn't have Stuart Fucking Little's thug cousin Arturo as a roomate. But the statement made by a VA spokesman really puts this beyond the pale.
You sniveling motherfucker. That's some serious audacity right there. You might as well have walked to the podium of a giant press conference and laid your junk out on the glass for all to see, rubbing your engorged genitalia all over the cameras for good measure. Where the fuck do you get off?
We're not talking about rewarding good service to the American people, you festering gob, we are talking about rewarding people who have shown ineptitude on a grand scale. We are talking about the fact that these assholes have shit upon our men and women in service while reaping bonuses for such insults. In short, we are talking about the pattern of rewarding failure that is the very definition of government corruption. Knowledgeable public servants do not take money for failure. Committed leaders do not grab the cash while their department flounders in incompetence and illegal accounting practices. Leaders lead people to achieve better things, and if they get rewarded for it, it's because their efforts succeeded.
Stop rewarding thieves like this bunch, and perhaps career public servants won't leave for the private sector. Stop handing out sweetheart government contracts to outfits like IAP who are ill-equipped for the task. Stop stealing from the American people while your fearless monkey leader whines about opposition to his treasury-sapping war not supporting the troops. It's your jobs to support the troops, VA, so start fucking doing it.
Is this supposed to be the sign of a functioning, small government? These assholes are the same ones who determine budgets for places like Walter Reed Army Medical Center. These bloodsucking profiteers are the ones who set budets for the department, a department created to pay claims to those brave Americans who are wounded in our wars, including the wars we don't need like Iraq. Anyone who has had veterans in their family can attest to the insane amount of time it takes such medical claims to crawl through the bureaucratic belly of the VA. My grandfather used to complain of that problem in the 80's and early '90's and over a decade later, it's still a problem. According to this story, claims take an AVERAGE of 177 days to be paid, over SIX FUCKING MONTHS for wounded verterans to recieve any sort of promised recompense for their sacrifice.
And these fuckers get bonuses? Some of the officials who received a bonus were the same sniveling bitches who used fallacious accounting to hide a $1 billion shortfall in their budget from Congress, most likely because President Bush didn't want to ask for more money for veterans in his budget. While the bonuses these assheads received were not of the obscene amounts that Raging Douchebags like State Farm's Ed Rust, Jr. received, they were still sizeable, some ranging as high as $33,000. I can guarantee you that a vet with a prosthetic leg is a fuckton more deserving of that much money than a burueacrat gathering saddle sores riding a desk in Washington. That $33,000 could probably have gone a long way to removing mold from some rooms at Walter Reed. It might even have paid for an exterminator so the vets wouldn't have Stuart Fucking Little's thug cousin Arturo as a roomate. But the statement made by a VA spokesman really puts this beyond the pale.
A VA spokesman, Matt Burns, said the department was reviewing Akaka's request. Burns contended that many of the senior officials had been with the departmentfor years, with an expertise that could not be replicated immediately if they were to leave for the more profitable private sector.
"Rewarding knowledgeable and professional career public servants is entirely appropriate," he said. "The importance of retaining committed career leaders in any government organization cannot be overstated."
You sniveling motherfucker. That's some serious audacity right there. You might as well have walked to the podium of a giant press conference and laid your junk out on the glass for all to see, rubbing your engorged genitalia all over the cameras for good measure. Where the fuck do you get off?
We're not talking about rewarding good service to the American people, you festering gob, we are talking about rewarding people who have shown ineptitude on a grand scale. We are talking about the fact that these assholes have shit upon our men and women in service while reaping bonuses for such insults. In short, we are talking about the pattern of rewarding failure that is the very definition of government corruption. Knowledgeable public servants do not take money for failure. Committed leaders do not grab the cash while their department flounders in incompetence and illegal accounting practices. Leaders lead people to achieve better things, and if they get rewarded for it, it's because their efforts succeeded.
Stop rewarding thieves like this bunch, and perhaps career public servants won't leave for the private sector. Stop handing out sweetheart government contracts to outfits like IAP who are ill-equipped for the task. Stop stealing from the American people while your fearless monkey leader whines about opposition to his treasury-sapping war not supporting the troops. It's your jobs to support the troops, VA, so start fucking doing it.
Labels: Bush Administration, Government Corruption
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