Just make the Potemkin village bigger

People stuck in a monopoly (unexpectedly!) find that service is terrible:
So far, the VA affair is running the usual course of Obama administration scandals, with the requisite denial and lack of accountability.  VA Secretary Eric Shinseki has referred to the incidents as “isolated cases” (even though 26 facilities are now under investigation).  No one has been fired.  One of Shinseki’s deputies, Dr. Robert Petzel, resigned, but was scheduled to retire this year anyway.  It was an appropriately Potemkin departure in a scandal involving Potemkin waiting lists. 
The White House has reverted to its default position of maintaining that it doesn’t know much about what’s happening in the vast government it always wants to make bigger.
It's pretty much like the public schools:  until they're credibly threatened with the ability of their customers to go elsewhere and take their funding with them, no amount of money will make them deliver good service, let alone good service at a reasonable cost.

2 comments:

Assistant Village Idiot said...

With a 93 year old father in law awaiting a decision on the VA Aid and Attendance benefit for combat veterans, you have no idea how this scandal strikes fear into my heart.

Ymar Sakar said...

The only thing they're going to fire is the guy responsible for renewing their network subscription to the Benghazi public killings.... when that guy isn't fast enough in his gofer job.

Every time an American is killed or tortured, the Leftist Regime in America gets a big phat smile on their face, Hussein included.