What a Waste

Every time you go to work and sweat, strain. work overtime and struggle to pay your bills remember that the government has so little contempt for your labor.

They confiscate part of your pay to waste it.

Little Rock VA Hospital Tears Down Never-Used Solar Panels

Two years after being completed, $8-million-worth of solar panels at a Little Rock, Ark., Veterans Affairs hospital have never been turned on, and now the hospital is tearing down some of the panels.
A chunk of the roughly 7,000 inactive solar panels outside the Little Rock Veterans Affairs Hospital was recently dismantled to make way for a new parking garage, Little Rock news outlet KATV reports:
The panels are being taken down for the construction of a parking garage. Channel 7 News obtained video of some of the panels being torn down last week. The panels will eventually be relocated to the top of that parking garage.
The Central Arkansas VA would not release the estimated cost to construct the panels and then later deconstruct them, calling it “procurement sensitive information”, because the parking garage contract is ongoing.~snip~

What's really galling is that they feel no need to disclose the costs to us peasants because in their mind it's their money.

Let the Festivities Fizzle

This whole Bowe Bergdahl deal seems to have given a lot of people pause. What mystifies me about this is that again no one bothered to vet these people before throwing their support behind them. Which is a shame because folks maybe become a lot more cautious before they throw in for someone who really deserves it.

Newly freed soldier's Idaho hometown cancels rally amid backlash

By Laura Zuckerman
HAILEY Idaho (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl's hometown, feeling a backlash over allegations that he was a deserter, has canceled a rally planned for later this month celebrating his release from five years of Taliban captivity, city officials said on Wednesday.
In calling off the June 28 event, the officials cited concerns that they lacked the resources to safely manage the thousands of supporters and protesters who were expected to converge on the small mountain community of 8,000 residents.~snip~

Since the current news cycle seems to be Bowe Bergdahl all the time let us not lose sight of the other scandals affecting our veterans.

Dr. Manny: Don’t let Bergdahl’s rescue distract from the VA scandal

Just two weeks ago, we were in the midst of one of the biggest governmental scandals in American history. Our beloved veterans were dying for lack of access to VA hospital services. Mysterious “secret” lists revealing falsified wait times for patients seeking care at VA hospitals were being identified. Physician whistleblowers were coming out of the woodwork. And on Friday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki finally resigned.
But this week, President Obama has been quick to shift the national attention to another news story: The release of the last U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
People, don’t let Bergdahl’s rescue make you forget about the VA scandal.
Now, I don’t want to get into the specifics surrounding the controversial release of this solider. There are many questions left to be answered, regarding the president’s decision to release what has been referred to as the “Taliban dream team” in exchange for Bergdahl. Or the president’s failure to notify Congress before the exchange took place.
But I think it’s funny that the president is not using the same lines he’s used during other controversies – such as ordering a “study” of the problem, as he did during the VA scandal – to address his current predicament surrounding Bergdahl’s release. Instead, Obama has been quick to characterize the release of Taliban prisoners as something that needed to be done.~snip~

You would think it would be a no-brainer for people to remember that Obama and the dems have a history of slapping those in uniform in the face. Truth is that the liberal/commie media in this country has the attention span of a 2 year old and would be more than happy to stop talking about all that VA stuff that might embarrass their Obamessiah.
What the government is doing to our warriors is to neglect them and treat them with disdain. They deserve better and we need to remember that.

Bergdahl’s conduct investigated

It seems that everything Bowe Bergdahl has pretty much knocked the VA scandal, among others, off the current news cycle. Quite possibly never to be taken up by the MSM again.

Not that Bowe Bergdahl’s possible desertion and possible release of a classified file put together by the U.S. intelligence community showing collaboration isn't important.

Sources: Intelligence community investigated Bergdahl’s conduct

A senior official confirms to Fox News that the conduct of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- both in his final stretch of active duty in Afghanistan and then, too, during his time when he lived among the Taliban -- has been thoroughly investigated by the U.S. intelligence community and is the subject of "a major classified file."
In conveying as much, the Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy.
The Pentagon official added pointedly that no relevant congressional committee has sought access to the classified file, but that if such a request were made, key committee chairs would, under previous precedent, likely be granted access to it. Separately, the Pentagon confirmed Monday that it is looking into claims Americans died during the search for Bergdahl.
The administration announced over the weekend that Bergdahl's release had been secured, in exchange for five Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. President Obama was joined by the soldier's parents in making a public statement on the release Saturday evening from the Rose Garden.
Sources told Fox News that many officials in the Executive Branch are "quite baffled" by the White House's decision to allow the president to stand alongside Bergdahl's father this past weekend, given the father's history of controversial statements, emails and online posts.~snip~

You can't tell me that Obama and his administration had no idea how problematic this swap for Bergdahl could be given the stuff just now starting to come out not only from his fellow soldiers but along official channels also.
It's the equivalent of shifting attention from one scandal by essentially creating another one.

Then again why not?
This administration has yet to be held accountable for anything from Fast and Furious to the IRS to Benghazi to the VA.
There's way more to this swap than we'll ever know and Obama will get away with weakening this country again.

Obamas Silver Bullet?

Bill Clinton seemed to be the teflon president. Any and all scandals that were thrown at him never seemed to stick. Mostly because the media would do what they have always done with leftist administrations.
Cover for them like a blanket.
Because of Clinton the corrupt media has refined the art of covering leftist/liberal ass.
Until now....maybe.

Veterans scandal risks engulfing Obama

Leftists believe and have been able to spin other boneheaded fumbles of this administration as contrived, but the scandal over deceiving veterans and allowing some to die is not something that the lapdog media can sweep under the rug for their democrat masters.
It's also a precursor for what the democrats have in store for us and our loved ones.
You know this is government health care, implemented in the same way the post office,IRS, EPA,and every other incompetent federal program ever enacted.
Why we would want to entrust the government, especially one headed by an incompetent boob like Obama, to safeguard the health of our families is beyond me.

But hey!!
He won so we should get over it....amirite!!!

Here's Your Government Healthcare

You know the government could have just contracted to a private insurance company to take care of our veterans and they would be better off in most cases. Because the idea that they created a government agency to control costs is laughable. No government agency can control their costs.

'Pushed Aside Like an Animal': Vet Dies While Unable to Get Care Through VA

There are alarming new reports this week about how difficult it has become for veterans to receive medical care from VA hospitals. Reports indicated at least 40 veterans died while awaiting appointments at the Phoenix VA Medical Center, prompting calls for an investigation and Senate hearings from the state's two senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake.
A former doctor alleges that senior management kept a secret waiting list in order to conceal the fact that 1,400 to 1,600 sick veterans were forced to wait months to see a doctor. ~snip~

The examples of malfeasance, incompetence and bias of government civil "servants" have been plain to see for decades. Yet people still voted for a second term of Obama so he could begin to implement another government program that will punish the American people with ever rising taxes and declining accountability.