POL: VA Officials Receive Bonuses Despite $1 Billion Budget Fraud

duckman · 05-03-2007, 08:31 AM

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Months after a politically embarrassing $1 billion shortfall that put veterans' health care in peril, Veterans Affairs officials involved in the foul-up got hefty bonuses ranging up to $33,000.

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The bonuses were awarded even after government investigators had determined the VA repeatedly miscalculated — if not deliberately misled taxpayers — with questionable methods used to justify Bush administration cuts to health care amid a burgeoning Iraq war.

st.cronin · 05-03-2007, 08:50 AM

Isn't that nice.

flere-imsaho · 05-03-2007, 02:12 PM

I have to ask at this point - are there any honest professionals doing jobs in the Bush Administration?

canadiancreed · 05-03-2007, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

I have to ask at this point - are there any honest professionals doing jobs in the Bush Administration?

The janitors for the oval office?

And man I've got to apply for a job there. No matter hwo badly you screw up, at least you can say that you didn't lose a billion dollars, then get rewarded for it.

Crapshoot · 05-03-2007, 02:34 PM

Creed, is there a forum out there you don't spam?

canadiancreed · 05-03-2007, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Crapshoot

Creed, is there a forum out there you don't spam?

I think there's a knitting one that I haven't hit yet, but give me time.

(and thanks for the laugh, it was well appriciated.

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MrBigglesworth · 05-03-2007, 03:59 PM

Of course they got bonuses, they did exactly what the White House wanted them to do: provide political cover for the tax cuts. People that would lie to congress in order to sacrifice care for war veterans for tax cuts to the wealthy don't just grow on trees. You have to keep those people around.

Same reason the White House isn't demanding Gonzalez resign. He did what they told him to do.

05-03-2007, 08:50 AM	#2
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	Isn't that nice. __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

05-03-2007, 02:12 PM	#3
flere-imsaho Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Chicagoland	I have to ask at this point - are there any honest professionals doing jobs in the Bush Administration?

05-03-2007, 02:34 PM	#5
Crapshoot Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Dec 2003	Creed, is there a forum out there you don't spam?

05-03-2007, 03:59 PM	#7
MrBigglesworth College Starter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: PA	Of course they got bonuses, they did exactly what the White House wanted them to do: provide political cover for the tax cuts. People that would lie to congress in order to sacrifice care for war veterans for tax cuts to the wealthy don't just grow on trees. You have to keep those people around. Same reason the White House isn't demanding Gonzalez resign. He did what they told him to do.

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