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Top senator says cost-cutting culture fueled veterans scandal
Yahoo! ^ | 27 May, 2014 | Meredith Shiner

Posted on 05/27/2014 2:33:01 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota

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To: stubernx98

She has officially wrested the Washington DC Stupidfest Invitational title from Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee with this comment. I mean, hands down, right now. I mean, they just called off the competition.


21 posted on 05/27/2014 2:48:50 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

“You gotta hope this woman is too stupid to breed. A child from her gene poll would have a heavy cross to bear... “

We’re too late! She already has two children, one of each. Problem is that stupid people tend to breed more than smart ones. Just look at who’s on welfare, they aren’t Mensas.


22 posted on 05/27/2014 2:51:40 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: LucianOfSamasota

I call BS on the comment, one only needs to view the VA budget to understand Pelosi is flat out lying. Budget up over 100 percent from 2006 when it was 73.1 BILLION to 2015 163.9 BILLION...so were is the cost cutting?
http://www.va.gov/budget/docs/summary/Fy2015-FastFactsVAsBudgetHighlights.pdf


23 posted on 05/27/2014 2:52:53 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: LucianOfSamasota
Typical Democrat demagoguery aimed at the LIVs.
24 posted on 05/27/2014 2:53:01 PM PDT by A message
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To: cripplecreek

Of course, I am stealing VQBMS from you.


25 posted on 05/27/2014 2:53:45 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: LucianOfSamasota
Sen. Patty Murray, Deceiver-Wash
26 posted on 05/27/2014 2:53:53 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: andyk

“Spending is up 35% for the VA in the past 5 years, they spend additional millions on bonuses, and the problem is a cost-cutting culture.”

Bears Repeating!
How do they get away with such asinine statements?


27 posted on 05/27/2014 2:54:33 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born heI're in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Does she believe her own lies?


28 posted on 05/27/2014 2:54:51 PM PDT by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: LucianOfSamasota
'Don't tell me you need more money, because we can't say that,'” she added.

Worked in the military procurement system for years, and the HQ would beg us to order parts and office supplies to spend the entire budget for the FY. If we didn't, the next year we would get budget cuts.

29 posted on 05/27/2014 2:56:32 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Gee, the VA officials got bonuses because gamed the system to make it look like veterans were being quickly seen and treated. This is not only reprehensible it is criminal fraud. The VA is a bloated federal bureaucracy and by cutting the bureaucrats and paper pushers they could have more than enough money to treat veterans. Matter of fact the VA could be eliminated entirely and simply pay for veterans care.


30 posted on 05/27/2014 2:56:39 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: LucianOfSamasota
“In an environment where everybody is told, 'Keep the cost down. Don't tell me anything costs more.' — it creates a culture out there for people to cook the books,” Murray said in an interview with Yahoo News.

What evidence does this dope have that this is what happened? Zero. Absolutely none. But its a good story to say that people lied and cooked books as a result of pressure to cut spending and the DNC drones in the media simply repeat the lies.

31 posted on 05/27/2014 3:00:10 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Dogfaced Soldier
What lies. The VA Budget in 2009 was $97.7 billion. In 2014 it was $153.8 billion. The amount dedicated to discretionary (as opposed to mandatory benefits) increased from $47 billion in 2009 to $63.4 million in 2014, which is 35% increase just for medical care. And yet the problem is the “culture of cost containment.”

Everything about socialism is sham and affectation. - 23.11 Ch23; Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat

Secret lists, death panels, rotting corpses. The VA is microcosm of the Unaffordable, UNaccountable, Uncaring Act…aka TOTALITARIANCARE (forced).

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat

$17,515,327,000,000+ (US National Debt)

$89,695,241,000,000+ (Medicare Liability)

32 posted on 05/27/2014 3:00:55 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: LucianOfSamasota

This VA hospital scandal is a perfect preview of the Obama Communist healthcare that is coming.


33 posted on 05/27/2014 3:01:34 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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"Top senator says cost-cutting culture
fueled veterans scandal"


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34 posted on 05/27/2014 3:03:19 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: The Great RJ
Gee, the VA officials got bonuses because gamed the system to make it look like veterans were being quickly seen and treated. This is not only reprehensible it is criminal fraud. The VA is a bloated federal bureaucracy and by cutting the bureaucrats and paper pushers they could have more than enough money to treat veterans.Matter of fact the VA could be eliminated entirely and simply pay for veterans care.

BUMP!

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM

35 posted on 05/27/2014 3:04:05 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Isn’t she the original “mom in tennis shoes” or some such horsecrap?


36 posted on 05/27/2014 3:04:20 PM PDT by Marathoner (What are we waiting for? Where are the Articles of Impeachment?)
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To: griswold3
How do they get away with such asinine statements?

See the above post by A message.

Typical Democrat demagoguery aimed at the LIVs.

It is the Goebbels big lie repeated ad infinitum. It is relentless and shameless.

I get liberal friends in my face with this quackery all the time, and they swallow it whole. No logical argument will shake them from their belief. "Tea partiers hate all government; poor cash-strapped government; shrinking budgets; poor people losing programs".

I never have a budget table available to ask, "point out the shrinking budget to me".

37 posted on 05/27/2014 3:06:03 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: stubernx98

Clemens ? Who is that ?


38 posted on 05/27/2014 3:12:02 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

I just talked to a vet who’s waiting on a surgery I had a few years ago. He has an ileostomy bag and has been waiting a year to get his innards reattached. I waited 2 months, but my wait was totally based on my health. He served on a deck of a carrier in 68 and 69, 18 hours a day, 6 days a week. My point is, this is a real problem, this isn’t a time for hoes like Murray to score points.


39 posted on 05/27/2014 3:12:40 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Yes, the culture of the Democrat that knows they’re not likely to get a disabled Vet’s vote in favor of some trailer trash with no job, no education, no ambition but will gladly trade his vote, his baby-mama’s vote and his cuzins’ votes for an EBT card, Section 8 housing, SNAP, WICs for baby-mama-baby, EITC, TANF and all the rest.


40 posted on 05/27/2014 3:13:46 PM PDT by Gaffer
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