Our Department of Veterans Affairs at "work"

What with all the delays in helping our Veterans and the keeping of secret lists to make it seem that wait times are minimal, we see this egregious mismanagement. From The Washington Free Beacon:

VA Drops Millions on Delayed Solar Power Projects
The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent more than $408 million to install solar panels on its medical facilities in recent years, despite many of the projects experiencing significant delays and some of the systems not becoming operational at all.

The VA has failed to effectively plan and manage these solar panel projects, resulting in significant delays and additional costs, according to a report released by the agency’s inspector general last week.

The watchdog conducted an audit of 11 of the 15 solar projects awarded between fiscal years 2010 and 2013 that were still in progress as of May last year. The investigation, which was completed in March, found that only two of the 11 solar panel projects were fully completed.

“This occurred because of planning errors, design changes, a lengthy interconnection process, and contractor delays,” the inspector general concluded. “As a result, VA did not increase renewable energy for those solar projects in the time frame planned and incurred additional costs through needed contract modifications.”

Good Lord - it takes maybe six months to install and complete a solar installation. Maybe another six months for the initial planning and to secure funding. These are installations that are still offline five years after the initial planning and funding - when the go-ahead was given to the contractor.

That inspector general needs to take the people responsible up to the roof to view the installation and then give them a hearty shove. Do this enough times and the surviving administrators might take a renewed interest in doing their job.

I hope that Trump wins in November - this is precisely the kind of thing he will get to the bottom of and fix. The issue here is not individual slackers, it is the corporate DNA - the corporate culture. Nobody cares and nobody is willing to take the effort to change anything.