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Resignation will be tendered and accepted.
if gen Shinseki is fired, every politician asking for his resignation should not be reelected. the va was deprived money and staff by congress, knowing the amount of sick and ill the va needed to support
I think that’s likely. Sadly, we appear to have hit the tipping point on this. Shinseki strikes me as a good and decent man, and I think it’s terribly unfair for all of this to fall on him. I mean, we’re talking about employees and supervisors at some of these VA facilities that were apparently engaging in criminal behavior on their own, with a method in place to conceal what they were doing. I would never believe in a thousand years that someone like Shinseki would condone that behavior in any way.
But when the media wants a head to roll, a head usually ends up rolling – whether it’s justified or not.
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Is anyone ever going to ask the question of WHY they were faking waiting lists?
It wasn’t because the people who work at the VA are evil. Its because they were under pressure to shorten waiting lists, while at the same time, Bush’s stupid war has created more maimed people with missing limbs and IED rattled brains than the system could handle.
Last time I looked, the VA did not decide how much money it had to hire doctors and nurses. That’s the Congress’s job. And when that evil socialist Bernie Sanders proposed better funding, 41 GOP Senators filibuster the law. SO is it the fault of the VA, or of the people who refuse to fund it?
Any time you see a news story that doesn’t ask and answer this question, you need to cry “Bullsh*t.” Firing Shinseki won’t make a bit of difference. He’s not the one deciding the funding.
All journalists must always remember the fundamental lesson of Watergate. FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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Shinseki’s character and military service are unquestioned IMHO. His problem is trying to change the climate/culture of the VA (a beast of bureaucracy). The number of troops returning with untold afflictions are staggering. You are obviously not going to fix anything if you don’t know what’s broken. A little Monday morning quarterbacking here…but he should have done a top down assessment from all regions and cleaned house from there. If this was done and there was still the entrenchment and secrecy we now see, then the place will never be fixed. You have to put people you trust in positions where total accountability is demanded. It seems as though he left people in place that needed to be fired…some of this stuff warrants criminal investigation.