Our government doing what it does so well...
First -- from The Daily Caller:
Dem Congressman: ‘We’ve Proved That Communism Works’
Democratic Florida Rep. Joe Garcia — fresh off being caught eating his own earwax on camera — was caught red-handed (or is it yellow-fingered?) in another gaffe this week, claiming that low crime rates in border cities with lots of federal immigration workers is proof that “Communism works.”
Second -- from The Blaze:
Howard Dean Went on Another Tirade…Calling Republicans ‘Not American’
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean at a rally in Colorado last week railed against the Republican Party, saying that it’s members are “not American” and that they would be “more comfortable in the Ukraine or Russia.”
“This is a Republican party that has decided they like power so much that they think it’s okay to win by taking away the right to vote,” Dean said in an address that only recently attracted the attention of many news sites.
Taking away the right to vote??? What the #uck is this guy smoking???
Third -- from the Miami, FL CBS affiliate:
Miami VA Whistleblower Exposes Drug Dealing, Theft, Abuse
When asked why he would risk his job and speak publicly, Detective Thomas Fiore considered the question carefully before answering.
“People are dying,” he finally said, “and there are so many things that are going on there that people need to know about.”
Fiore, a criminal investigator for the VA police department in South Florida, contacted CBS4 News hoping to shed light on what he considers a culture of cover-ups and bureaucratic neglect. Among his charges: Drug dealing on the hospital grounds is a daily occurrence.
“Anything from your standard prescription drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet, and of course marijuana, cocaine, heroin, I’ve come across them all,” he explained.
Even inside the hospital, he says he was stopped from doing his job – investigating reports of missing drugs from the VA pharmacy. When the amount of a particular drug inside the pharmacy doesn’t match the amount that the pharmacy is supposed to have, a report, known as a “discrepancy report” is generated. Normally it was his job to investigate the reports to determine if they were the result of harmless mistakes or criminal activity. But all that changed, he said, about two years ago.
“I was instructed that I was to stop conducting investigations pertaining to controlled substance discrepancies,” he recalled.
He said he was personally told to stop investigating them by the hospital’s chief of staff, Dr. Vincent DeGennaro.
“I have no idea why,” he said. “He’s the chief of staff he doesn’t have to tell me why.”
DeGennaro declined our request for an interview. A spokesman for the VA wrote CBS4 News: “The Miami VA is required to monitor all controlled substances and resolve inventory discrepancies within 72 hours. Any unresolved discrepancies are reported to the Miami VA Healthcare System Director and Controlled Substance Coordinator, VA OIG, DEA and VA Police for independent investigation.”
The culture of corruption in the Veterans Administration is disgusting. That nest of vipers needs to be flushed, people need to spend time behind bars and the administration needs to reorganize and streamline that bureaucracy. Hire a CEO from a successful American Corporation to manage -- the head should be hired (and compensated) on merit - it should never, ever be a political appointment.
The thing to consider here is that if this administration is allowed to act with such disregard to people who have served our Nation, imagine what they will do to us when we ask for treatment under Obamacare. Do you really think that there will be any difference?
