{"id":47414,"date":"2014-05-15T12:49:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=47414"},"modified":"2014-05-15T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:49:56","slug":"shinseki-vows-not-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47414","title":{"rendered":"Shinseki vows not to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’m still watching this thing on CSPAN of Shinseki answering what the Washington Post<\/a> calls “tough questions”. So he was asked by Senator Dean Heller, Nevada Republican, why he shouldn’t resign from the position at which he’s been such a miserable failure. I’m sure that the definition of “Peter Principle” will be edited to include his photo.<\/p>\n

So Shinseki’s response was recorded by the Post;<\/p>\n

[T]he retired Army general said he took the job \u201cto make things better for veterans\u201d and to \u201cprovide as much care and benefits for the people I went to war with\u201d and other veterans as he could. \u201cThis is not a job,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m here to accomplish a mission that I think they critically deserve and need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shinseki vowed to remain in office until he meets his goals for improving the department\u2019s performance or until President Obama tells him it is time to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny allegation like this .?.?. makes me mad as hell,\u201d Shinseki said in an opening statement. \u201cBut at the same time, it also saddens me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The short answer would have been “I haven’t killed enough veterans yet” apparently. Things under Shinseki haven’t improved even marginally, in all areas of the Veterans’ Affairs Department conditions have deteriorated substantially, so, I’m thinking that Ric is delusional if he thinks that he can improve conditions at the Veterans’ Affairs Department. He even admitted during testimony, that some of the things that need improvement are outside of his abilities. So, WTF is he still doing there?<\/p>\n

{Vermont Senator Bernie] Sanders noted that the VA health system generally receives high marks from patients who use it. The American Customer Satisfaction Index shows that the network, which serves more than 8 million veterans, achieved scores equal to or better than those in the private sector last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree with part of that statement. The actual medical treatment at the VA is superb, some of the best doctors and nurses in the country work there, but it’s the bureaucracy that stands between the care and the patients that sucks major ass. And that’s the part that would seem the easiest to fix. All of the complaints about the VA have been about the bureaucracy, since the beginning of time. Fixing that would require some leadership, though, and the VA execs aren’t interested in using any leadership, and Shinseki has never displayed a measure of leadership since he came to my attention more than a decade ago. <\/p>\n

I just don’t know how anyone, including Shinseki, can think that his continued occupation of that position can ever benefit veterans in any way shape or form. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’m still watching this thing on CSPAN of Shinseki answering what the Washington Post calls … Shinseki vows not to resign<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414","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=47414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}