What would it take for you to get fired from your job? Regularly showing up late? Stealing your coworkers lunch? There are all sorts of ways to get fired in the private sector, and in today's rough and tumble Obama economy, many of us have become all too familiar with them.
But what if you were charged with taking care of America's Veterans? Well, then you can get away with literally anything:
"Today's announcement from VA that no one will be seriously disciplined for wasting more than $1 billion on a failed construction project and that a few executives might receive a weak slap on the wrist or a temporary written warning for a relocation scandal that cost taxpayers more than $400,000 is more proof of this sad fact," Miller said in a statement late Tuesday.
The project is known as "the biggest construction failure in VA history" and its cost has tripled from its original $604 million budget.
The VA announced Tuesday afternoon that the four leaders at the Veterans Benefits Administration who mismanaged the Denver hospital replacement project would receive suspensions and be reprimanded for their misuse of taxpayer funds.
Another day, another government employee getting away with highway robbery.
Source: AAN
6 comments:
I was at the VA clinic in Cambridge the other day. I don't know who takes care of the exterior of that building, but they need to take care of a lot of structural problems before they get worse.
It's all about the Merit Board...
"The Merit Systems Protection Board is an independent, quasi-judicial agency in the Executive branch that serves as the guardian of Federal merit systems. The Board assumed the employee appeals function of the Civil Service Commission and was given new responsibilities to perform merit systems studies and to review the significant actions of OPM.
MSPB carries out its statutory responsibilities and authorities primarily by adjudicating individual employee appeals and by conducting merit systems studies.." (from mspb.gov)
The short version: Government employees are so well-protected that it (literally) takes an act of Congress to get rid of them. I'm sure most administrators don't bother to try, because they know they will be wasting a ton of time and effort on an almost guaranteed failing outcome.
THAT is the problem that needs to be addressed.
The VA is a cluster----!!! Filed claim 10-15 they asked for further medical documents they acknowledged receipt now their saying no record of claim filed UNREAL
PS- When the Merit Systems Protection Board was established in 1978, Jimmy Carter was President.
That should explain a lot.
11:37-- if you haven't already, contact the DAV (DAV.org) and have them run the claim for you. They're the BEST at it, and they will get through the red tape. It costs you nothing, and you don't need to be a member. People like you are why the organization exists. I'm a life member.
@2:09 thank you!!
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