{"id":34727,"date":"2013-03-24T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34727"},"modified":"2013-03-24T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T19:21:14","slug":"shinseki-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34727","title":{"rendered":"Shinseki on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Ric showed up on CNN today. CNN made a big deal that this is the first time Shinseki has sat for an interview in four years and here he is. You really don’t have to watch, because it’s the same old bullshit about how he doesn’t think veterans should have to wait hundreds of days for their claims to get approved, that the backlog will magically disappear in 2015, that the president has increased his funding by 40% and there’s no excuse for his people to be incompetent boobs who can’t get through the backlog. <\/p>\n

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Candy Crowley asks Shinseki what the President can do to help Shinseki reduce the backlog of claims and Shinseki says that there’s nothing he can do – so obviously, the VA is so broken there’s nothing anyone can do. Shinseki doesn’t even seem embarrassed that the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs can’t even transfer digital files between the agencies, despite the fact that the two agencies have tossed millions of dollars down a black hole trying to solve it. <\/p>\n

In other words, no one at the VA is interested in solving any of their problems – but they’re willing to talk about what a big problem it is. It’s no wonder that Ric hasn’t been on any of the news shows – he has nothing new to say. <\/p>\n

Oh, and he tells us that the problem is Bush’s fault because it’s a decades-old problem, and if we hadn’t been fighting those damned Bush wars, he wouldn’t be saddled with the growing number of veterans. Any half-way competent manager could solve the problem at the VA in less than two years. But Eric Shinseki isn’t half-way competent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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