Green energy gets the green light while people that served our country with honor have to wait in line, dying while waiting.
For example, does anyone other than Eco-zealots give a flying f about having solar car ports at the VA?
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at its Phoenix Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, plans to install a 3.003-megawatt (MW) DC solar electric system. This project will expand a 630-kW carport system currently under construction by SunWize Systems at the site.
It seems to me that the VA has failed their primary mission, and in a spectacularly bad way. Nobody other than eco-zealots gives a rats-ass if your office is sustainable – but they DO want you to adhere to your primary mission take care of veterans. The word “shameful” doesn’t begin to describe the FUBAR at the VA. – Anthony
From the Washington Times Opinion Section:
The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand.
The department early on set up an Office of Green Management Programs designed to “help VA facilities nationwide recognize opportunities to green VA, and to reward innovative ‘green’ practices and efforts by individual facilities and staff within the VA.” This sometimes means paying more attention to greening the department and saving the polar ice caps than to health care.
In the department’s words, it adopted a far more important mission to “become more energy efficient and sustainable, focusing primarily on renewable energy, energy and water efficiency, [carbon-dioxide] emissions reduction, and sustainable buildings.”
You’re welcome, Michael. Take care. Janice
It’s abbreviated WAG. 🙂
This makes me soooooo very angry……
If it bothers you, please, please contact both your US Senator and Representatives and tell them in blunt terms just how angry this stupidity makes you and your expectations for their direct involvement for bringing this stupidity to an end.
First, compose a blunt email with the key points you wish to make and send it to their office email addresses. Then call their office phone number and ask if you can speak directly to your Senator or Representative. Use your email as a guide to personally inform them of your disgust with this stupidity and your expectation that they will be directly involved in putting an end to it and getting the VA refocused on serving our warriors healthcare needs.
If you need to locate the contact information for your US Senator and Representatives , use the following two links to do so.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Do it today.
Then check their schedules and see if they have any ‘townhall’ meetings scheduled in your area. If so, attend and give them the full measure of your disgust and anger.
If they have a local office in your area, go there and blast them again.
They won’t act unless we all blister them into action….
““shameful” doesn’t begin to describe the FUBAR at the VA. – Anthony”
Criminal is the first that comes to my mind. At some point you really wonder “is this by design?”. I mean can you really screw things up this bad REPEATEDLY by accident, incompetence, etc?
With the IRS getting rid of all its hard drives, they should save quite a bit of energy.
MarkW says: June 20, 2014 at 10:08 am
Latitude says:
June 20, 2014 at 9:12 am
anyone else have the feeling our government has grow too big…..
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By a factor of 10
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There are so very few in Congress who will stand up and say “NO”! Ted Cruz is the most obvious, although there are more lower profile ones. Don’t like Ted? You have been watching way too much ABC/NBC/MSNBC/CNN. The same ones who told you to vote for The Messiah (Barbara Walter’s words). Also they tell you to believe in CAGW. So……..Why would you believe them about Ted or anything else for that matter??
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin.)
by a factor of 10 (missed the “0” on cut-and-paste
All,
Off track but still has to do with the politics that will be required to straighten out the VA. Also, the failure of the MSM.
The Long Suffering Mrs. Jewett and I went to the Texas Republican Party convention. There were some 10,000 in attendance.
Thought you might be interested in a “man bites dog” story. You might have missed it in the so called “main stream media”. It is so contrary to the conventional wisdom that it should have been the lead story.
They had a Presidential straw poll with the first place won by a Hispanic and the second won by a Black. Together, they won 55.6%. Hmmmmmm……wonder why you didn’t know that! Except maybe some Texans out there.
Regards
After years working for the Government funded Australian Medicare system, I am sad that people do not understand the purpose of these government health care systems. They serve one purpose, to allow pork barreling to enable local representatives to be re-elected. Health Care is a fiscal drag on the economy, so cutting health budgets is a priority, to allow funds to be shifted to other pork-barrel projects. In addition, Medical Professionals (doctors and Nurses) need to be cut from the system, and beds closed, to fund the ever growing needs of the bloated bureaucracy required to oversea the reduction in services. Any health professional advocating new services that may benefit patients, save lives, will eventually be sacked. Where do you think the money from this Greening project came from? It came from cuts to services. Sorry for the USA, your new Obamacare copies some of the worse aspects of the Australian Health Care system.
I’ve noted over the years that government indifference to their vets is widespread across the world. Once their ‘cannon fodder’ days are over they are surplus to requirements. Hundreds of billions for wars and yet no spare change to save lives once home.
No different to the UK. The defence budget is being cut but money is being spent on wind turbines, and other green measures
Vets Died – Obama Lied
True for the VA scandal. True for the Benghazi scandal.
Plaster It Every Where.
Steamboat Jack says:
June 20, 2014 at 8:21 pm
They had a Presidential straw poll with the first place won by a Hispanic and the second won by a Black. Together, they won 55.6%. Hmmmmmm……wonder why you didn’t know that! Except maybe some Texans out there.
Steamboat Jack,
We judge these men based on the content of their character and not the color or their skin.
Are these people conservatives or liberals? Do they support fiscal discipline or greater government expenditures and indebtedness? Do they support capitalism or socialism? Do they support the Constitution Of The United States ….. or not?
Tell me about their convictions, philosophies, personal beliefs, and moral standards. I don’t give a shit what their ethnic background is…..
Mac
An obsession with irrelevant trivia is one of the characteristic features of a failing organisation. It is both cause and symptom. When the leaders of an organisation forget what it is actually for, they start to waste money on things that are unimportant or even counter-productive. This plants the seeds of future failures. But if the leaders are confronted with existing problems that they don’t know how to address they may take refuge in displacement activity. Instead of doing the hard but important stuff they focus on small things that are easier to control, even if they are a complete waste of time. It becomes a feedback loop in which more and more resources are diverted away from the organisation’s core activities as the failures keep getting worse.
We may disagree with people, but they have a right to think whatever thoughts they want. Even people who disagree on many things can come together and agree that some common services are required in a civil society. We pay for those with taxes. When taxes morph into a confiscation of assets, expended to serve narrow purposes by a self-referential elite, civil society collapses. You can count the ‘reforms’ that have been effective on one hand, and have fingers left over. The old institutions need to be terminated, and new solutions implemented. Birthing will be difficult, and the new institutions will probably fail over time as well as the entropy of bureaucracy tends toward functionless stasis on primary tasks.
Sometimes, however, there is no point to civility. My father was damaged in military service. The military never acknowledged responsibility, nor provided treatment. We did get a $245 death benefit.
We need to “PATCO” the unions at VA, and prosecute and incarcerate those who have misbehaved to the full extant of the law; then cashier the rest and give vets a Health insurance voucher to get care as needed anywhere. Consolidating the good folks into specialty centers to create military specific cases is fine, if you can find them. I’m fine with a dose of reality for the ***** at IRS as well. Two weeks pay and welcome to real life.
Please support Wounded Warriors. They fill in a lot of the gaps.
Resourceguy says:
June 20, 2014 at 11:50 am
“We need a special prosecutor instead of Holder for the VA scandal and lost emails at IRS.”
Lost E-Mails. That is so pathetic that is it hilarious. 9/15/2010, the IRS acquired the services of Sonasoft’s Email archival/backup system to the tune of $13,983. You can find them listed in their valued customers listing…. for now.
http://www.sonasoft.com/company/customers/
To all of those who praise VA health care: You have not heard from those that I have: ordinary veterans who relate their experiences with the system. However, I am glad to hear that not all have had a bad experience at the VA.
Spending on the VA health system increased under the current administration, so that’s not the problem. The war in Afghanistan is winding down (and Iraq is over, at least for now) and we’re not seeing an increase in wounded vets coming into the system from the military so that’s not the problem. We had a former Army general running the VA, so the problem isn’t having somebody at the top without appreciation for military service.
We do have a problem with a lousy economy, more people seeking disability instead of employment, a worse civilian health care system and a culture of indifference. Bureaucracy is the same everywhere and dedicated people at the bottom can’t overcome the indifference and incompetence at the top.
Do away with a segregated health care system for veterans is the best solution.