Not a huge surprise that Eric Shinseki took one for the team and tendered his resignation as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Either he knew or he should have known that his minions were not stretching their budgets far enough to satisfy everyone and provide the level of service the American public thinks it has promised our veterans. What remains to be seen is whether or not some of the heads of VA hospitals in various states also admit they were in on the concealment and inability to cope.
But what I'm waiting for is the mass resignation from Congress of all legislators who repeatedly voted against sufficient resources so that the VA could, in fact, comply with the expectations of the American public and veterans. Will the lackeys of the Koch brothers publicly admit they fully understood the VA had no chance of providing the levels of care they were demanding with the budgets that were being approved? Pretty sure I'll have a long, long disappointing wait.
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It doesn't bother me that nobody wishes to add comments to my screeds. But I think I'll add a little to this one. Equally at fault in this entire mess, in my opinion, is today's corporate media as it exists and functions. With the technology and advantages of social media that have progressed so much and so fast in the last decade, it is a crime or a sin, take you pick, that no media outlets invested any resources into checking out things like the waiting times for service in VA hospitals. I simply can't believe that the NY Times, or Washington Post or FOX News couldn't see their way clear to having reporters spend some time looking into how well local VA hospitals were serving their clientele. I mention those outlets because smaller, regional media have cut back even more than the bigger boys have. Yet the brains of FOX and other outlets proudly trumpet their horror at the discoveries that they refused to make but are willing to decry.
And when the Inspector General for VA is grilled at Congressional hearings and testifies that his shop has issued over 15 reports on problem to Congress, why doesn't anybody ever pin down the Congressmen who received those reports and insist that they answer for their inaction?
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