{"id":20326,"date":"2010-08-31T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20326"},"modified":"2010-08-31T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T17:15:41","slug":"dva-wastes-millions-on-abandoned-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20326","title":{"rendered":"DVA wastes millions on abandoned buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry920 sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/08\/31\/veteran-affairs-spends-millions-on-hazardous-buildings\/\">Fox News story<\/a> about the Department of Veterans Affairs wasting millions of dollars every year on buildings it can&#8217;t occupy and won&#8217;t fix;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Exactly how much it costs to maintain the run-down and abandoned buildings is a matter of dispute. The General Accountability Office estimates that the VA has spent $175 million every year since 2007. But the VA disputes that figure, saying it spent $85 million on the buildings in 2007 and only $37 million last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get that? &#8220;Only&#8221; 37 million bucks last year. So given the best case scenario, they wasted enough money to pay more than 1200 people $30k each last year to fix those buildings&#8230;or tear the things down.<\/p>\n<p>VA blames complicated federal property rules. Like they&#8217;ve never broken other rules to shortcut quality treatment of veterans, but when it comes to being useful or saving some money that could help veterans, they&#8217;re suddenly hamstrung by rules.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not entirely Shinseki&#8217;s fault, but if he&#8217;s really for the veterans like he&#8217;s claimed since day one on the job, he should fix this as expeditiously as possible and put that money to work for veterans. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry920 sends us a link to a Fox News story about the Department of Veterans Affairs &hellip; <a title=\"DVA wastes millions on abandoned buildings\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20326\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DVA wastes millions on abandoned buildings<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}