The Veterans Administration heartless management is
shockingly unacceptable yet not in the least surprising for those who have a healthy disdain for bureaucracy.
Government programs especially one as large as Veterans Administration will falter,
fail and stumble, but when it trades veterans' lives for bonuses, then the
system has a sinister incentive. We now know one can literally die by a government
paper cut and it should anger all Americans.
Conservatives have been calling for limited government because
they understand government has efficiency limits. Bigger bureaucracy
means bigger waste, bigger ineptitude, bigger fraud, bigger corruption, bigger
red tape and stone cold callousness.
The political pundits discussing the V. A. scandal seem to
agree that blame falls on both political parties equally. And once again we
hear the excuse from this administration's loyalists that it is not Obama's
fault. Although it is true that many previous administrations Republican and
Democrat, ignored the multiple complaints about the V.A. system, no previous
President or political party has pushed for more big government, more bloated bureaucracy,
more central control over more aspects of the American life than Obama's
Democrat party.
Absurd, that this deathly V.A. scandal replete with demons
and devils should have no political side blamed more than the other. Democrats
warn Republicans not to politicize this scandal for political gain, because the
problems were long known. Their argument being that just because the music
stopped and Obama was left without an empty chair to sit on, many previous
administrations and Republican controlled Congresses sat on their hands.
Interesting, but stupid, because when did the Democrats take
responsibility for the financial housing meltdown? Didn't they blame George
Bush even though it was known that the housing bubble was caused by the Clinton
administration and the Democrats control of Fannie and Freddie? In fact, when
has the Democrat party ever taken accountability for the myriads of failed
programs it championed and supported over the years? The Democrats have tried
to blame funding cuts for the fiasco of Benghazi? The Democrats have excused,
denied and lied about all the multiple government scandals under their
leadership.
Yes, American voters can and should lay blame on the callousness
of Washington and the inevitable ineptitude of micro and macro socialists
programs instituted against the ideals of private enterprise. The nub of the
scandal has a bore hole that runs deep into the heart of the debate between
leftist idealism and conservative pragmatism.
Democrats support big government, unions in public service
and blame every instance of government programs ineptitude on a lack of
funding. In fact to all scandals, Democrats have a mantra that blames
conservatives for being stingy with funding because their only solution to any
government problem is ; more money.
Equally, the Democrats constantly seek to increase the
federal agencies' budgets except where? Yes, you are right, the Democrats have
a long history of constantly cutting the military budget. Worse, they have played
politics with our military trying to micro-manage its social structure. To
Democrats having gay soldiers in the ranks is a bigger priority than the
effects on the morale of our fighting force.
The Veterans Administration hospital wait list scandal may
be bipartisan guilt, but the underlying causation is endemic to three known
ills, big government bureaucracy, civil servant unionization and a complete
absence of accountability in leadership. Sorry, Democrats but you own and
champion all three of these blights on our nation's proud legacy.
Bureaucracy has always been the curse of big government
because it is slow, inept and buck passing. The smaller the bureaucracy the
more agile is its performance. In the late 1980's American corporations and
business started to realize the need to downsize. Running meaner and leaner was
both the credo and the reason that many of them no longer remain top heavy.
They were able to make more profit with less mid-level management.
Conservatives have been calling for smaller government and
less bureaucracy for years for similar
reasons. One is to rid our system of the wasteful and unconstitutional
Washington bureaucracies from stealing from the public wallet and the other is
to ensure that the necessary and constitutional administrations of government
are able to run more efficiently and responsibly.
The Democrat Party has been fighting against small
government at every turn and demonizing conservatives as selfish anarchists.
The Democrats have made political sport out of slandering small government and
free enterprise as inhumane ideals while it has championed collective control
over the citizen.
Unionized pencil pushers that work for their bonuses and
pensions are replete in all of our government agencies. The union contracts are
why some of them can watch porn at their desks and not be fired. It is why
stories abound about lavish partying on the taxpayers dime by agencies like the
GSA and IRS. It is why even when caught, (Lois Lerner) acting in a possible
criminal IRS scheme to harass conservative Americans, civil servants are not
fired, but instead are put on administrative leave, and or are able to retire
with full pension. Democrats have propped up unions, that were once needed, but
now given abundant labor laws, have become expedient organizations that use
greedy extortion for monetary gain and political capital.
Those involved in the V.A. waiting list scandal had one agenda.
No, it wasn't a respectful moral
imperative to move heaven and earth to ensure that our embattled service men
received the healthcare they deserved. Yes, it was the self-serving entitlement
mindset to earn bonuses fomented by years of liberalism's collective accountability. It is a mindset
that suggests we are all to blame, so therefore, there is no one to blame.
Because if you are looking for individuals to blame then the response is;
"What difference does it make?"
Imagine if the Phoenix V.A. hospital was completely private
and instead took government money for the care of veterans and they were called
out for sending even one soldier home to die? Heads would roll, reputations would be mud and
orange jump suits would be issued (by DOJ) to all involved.
No I am sorry but at the heart of this horrific scandal is
the battle of idealism between liberalism and conservatism. Between personal
accountability and collective victimhood. Between big federal government
bureaucracy , statehood and local control. Between honoring and understanding that
America owes its freedom to pursue happiness from the patriotic soldiers who
served the highest duty and we in turn, owe them respect, dignity and promises
kept, not lip service.
Years of liberal mystification has been taught to generations
of youth to view government as the god named
"Panacea" that will cure all ills. And when that god screws up, there
is only one solution, blame a lack of funding and increase the offering on the
sacrificial table. And when it comes to accountability, blame it on low rung
pencil pushers but don't fire them, let them sail off in a pension balloon into
the sunset.
And when it comes to leadership, pretend you are just as
shocked as the public because you heard it in the press like everyone else. Give
a another partisan speech touting the goodness of government, while making sure
you bash limited government conservatism. Act official as you pronounce that
you will fix the problem after you wait for another report that investigates
the report that reported the problem. Show false outrage and challenge your
political adversaries to not call these mishaps of ineptitude scandals even
while you stonewall the truth about dead Americans and call them bumps in the
road.
Yes, Americans know many in the Republican party both past
and present have knelt and prayed to that same government god, which is why a
groundswell has emerged by the pragmatic patriots to enlist new representation.
So yes, a pox on both parties.
But also yes, we as constitutional conservative voters have
the right to point political blame on liberal, big government, socialists'
Democrats for the Veteran's scandal. Because, it is the demons of me-ism,
unions, big government collectivism and buck passing leadership that Democrats
have been promoting for generations. It is the complete opposite of our
nation's heritage of individual freedom, puritan work ethic, personal moral
responsibility, and devotion to God and country.
Our brave men and women fought for their lives on the
battlefield for America's values and Democrats have welcomed them home to die by
government bureaucratic dispassion filled with collective cowards.
