{"id":22326,"date":"2011-02-18T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22326"},"modified":"2011-02-18T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:17:11","slug":"shinseki-apologizes-for-being-an-incompetent-boob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22326","title":{"rendered":"Shinseki apologizes for being an incompetent boob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing his long stream of apologies for being an incompetent leader, Eric Shinseki apologized that he&#8217;s been unable to influence his subordinates to begin paying out to caregivers who treat the troops, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/shinseki-apologizes-for-missing-deadline-for-caregiver-benefits-1.135168\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki apologized Thursday for delays in the new caregivers benefits plan, pledging that families of wounded troops remain a top priority for the department.<\/p>\n<p>Under legislation passed last year, the VA was mandated to begin awarding caregiver benefits \u2014 living stipends, medical training, and counseling support \u2014 to select families of wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans by Jan. 31. However, that deadline passed without officials even presenting basic details of how the program would be administered.<\/p>\n<p>When those details were released last week, veterans groups criticized the department\u2019s narrow interpretation of the rules, which as written now would not cover many families caring for troops with traumatic brain injuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, he&#8217;s a real leader. <\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that this administration is real good at signing ceremonies for veterans&#8217; programs, but absolutely retarded when it come to delivering the benefits of the programs to veterans, and I hold Mr Black Beret personally responsible.<\/p>\n<p>If you wonder why I despise Shinseki so much, the story goes back about 11 years when the Army Times quoted an open letter I published on paratrooper.net in regards to the black beret issue. Reportedly, the Army Chief of Staff, Eric Shinseki expressed to his staff his surprise that an infantry platoon sergeant knew how to use the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Now who&#8217;s the fucking retard, Eric?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing his long stream of apologies for being an incompetent leader, Eric Shinseki apologized that he&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Shinseki apologizes for being an incompetent boob\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22326\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shinseki apologizes for being an incompetent boob<\/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":[86,118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326","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=22326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}