{"id":33028,"date":"2012-11-29T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33028"},"modified":"2012-11-29T10:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T14:43:51","slug":"va-not-forthcoming-with-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33028","title":{"rendered":"VA not forthcoming with Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tequila Volare sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/jamie-dupree-washington-insider\/2012\/11\/28\/congress-demands-answers-from-va-on-conferences\/\">Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a> that recounts the battle that Veterans Affairs is having with their oversight committee on their irresponsible spending that is not helping veterans one whit;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is a culture at the VA that doesn&#8217;t put the veterans first,&#8221; complained Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX), who said videos of dancing bureaucrats in Orlando brought back memories of the GSA conference in Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want you testifying about this kind of crap,&#8221; Flores told the VA&#8217;s Gould.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the battle is over the $6 million that DVA spent on training conferences last year, which we discussed earlier. The article says that the DVA has finally admitted that they spent $85.6 million on conferences last year, if I&#8217;m reading the article correctly, but the article is as convoluted as the DVA&#8217;s responses to 66 responses for the House Veterans&#8217; Committee which has arrived at that number.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that $85.6 million dollars would go a long ways to cleaning out the VA&#8217;s backlog of veterans&#8217; claims, not that it matters, apparently, since it looks like Veteran Affairs has more to do with entertaining it&#8217;s employees than doing the business of veterans.<\/p>\n<p>With the large number of phonies we&#8217;ve seen getting benefits they didn&#8217;t earn, I guess the DVA is more interested in rewarding everyone except veterans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tequila Volare sends us a link from the Atlanta Journal Constitution that recounts the battle that &hellip; <a title=\"VA not forthcoming with Congress\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33028\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA not forthcoming with Congress<\/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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028","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=33028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}