{"id":34949,"date":"2013-04-05T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34949"},"modified":"2013-04-05T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:40:16","slug":"white-house-supports-shinseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34949","title":{"rendered":"White House supports Shinseki"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy Ward Carroll writes at Military.com<\/a> that the White House expressed their support for Ric Shinseki’s plan to clear the blacklog of claims at the Veterans’ Affairs Department;<\/p>\n

“The president views this as national problem,” White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said during a roundtable he hosted along with Secretary Shinseki for a number of national media organizations….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, great. We’re screwed now. The president viewed healthcare, unemployment, and the economy as national problems, too, and it’s only gotten worse since he “focused” on those problems.<\/p>\n

McDonough stated that the president’s support of veterans is primarily manifest in his 2014 budget priorities that were just released, specifically the plus-up of the Veterans Benefits Administration funding to $2.5 billion, an increase of 13.6 percent. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’ll fix the problem – throw more money at a broken system. They’ve been increasing the funding at the VA for four years and nothing has changed. I appreciate the sentiment, but when the DVA is spending the money on millions-of-dollars conventions and training programs that turn into Roman orgies, maybe more money isn’t the solution anymore. And I think I found the problem;<\/p>\n

“In this job I get to take care of kids I went to war with 40 years ago in a place called Vietnam,” [Shinseki] said. “I get to take care of those kids we deployed when I was service chief. I get to take care of the great giants, those veterans of World War 2 who saved the world and those who saved a country in the \u201850s and who raised me in the profession. For those reasons, when the president offered me the opportunity I took it, and I haven’t really thought much more about it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe Shinseki should think about it occasionally – not just when someone is holding his feet to the fire. Shinseki is good at taking blame, but that isn’t turning into results. He makes pretty speeches and touches on all the key subjects when he talks to the public, but he’s just an incompetent boob with no leadership skills. No one on his staff knows how to manage their assets properly and lead their subordinates. The VA needs a housecleaning, personnel-wise, and Shinseki doesn’t have the cojones<\/em> to do that. So the house-cleaning needs to begin at the very top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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