Obama Administration Trashes Vets

Conservative scholars like Thomas Sowell have noted that at its heart, liberalism is a vehicle for self-congratulation. That is, liberals will often pass sweeping, seemingly well intentioned laws without regard for the consequences. What matters is not the success of the program, but the intentions of its sponsors. If the War on Poverty actually increase illegitimacy and government dependence, it's irrelevant. What matters is the singular fulfillment of the person or group that "did something" to alleviate pain. 

This disregard for outcomes is evident across our bloated bureaucracy, and nowhere more than at our broken VA hospitals. Today, the Obama Administration admitted it's not something they're really concerned about. Just keep writing checks, right?

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn't use wait times as a measure of success because Disney doesn't either.

"When you got to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line? Or what's important? What's important is, what's your satisfaction with the experience?" McDonald said Monday during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters. "And what I would like to move to, eventually, is that kind of measure."

McDonald's comments angered House Speaker Paul Ryan, who tweeted out Monday afternoon, "This is not make-believe, Mr. Secretary. Veterans have died waiting in those lines."

Ryan wasn't the only one. Conservatives took to Twitter to slam the foolish statement. 

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