PANACEA THE GOD OF LIBERALS

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.