Government agencies, like the Department of Veterans Affairs should be run like companies, where people are fired when caught doing bad things, but this is FAR from the case.
Corruption-Filled VA Refuses to Fire Employees Caught Selling Heroin, High On Cocaine, Having Sex In Office
In fact, people working at the ultra corrupt Department of Veterans Affairs have been caught doing some horrible things, and receive no more than a mild slap on the wrist, and then continue their bad and sometimes illegal behavior.
Some VA employees have been caught high on cocaine, and maybe even using cocaine on VA premises, while others have been caught having sex in the Department of Veterans Affairs offices, and the VA just looks the other way. One VA employee was busted for selling heroin on VA grounds, and was allowed to return to work. That is fucking wrong, and needs to be changed!
Even Jon Wooditch, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ former top watchdog, resigned from his position at the VA after being caught masturbating in an all-glass conference room, where people across the street were able to watch. Wooditch was not fired for beating off in public, he resigned out of embarrassment.
It is total bullshit how our government actually breeds corruption, from the inside out, by allowing criminals and overall bad people to keep their jobs after being caught doing things that should warrant their removal from the government job, and maybe even a long prison term.
Once we have some people in office, on both sides of the isle, who are out to improve America, instead of ignoring teh will of the American People to bilk our nation for everything she is worth, to make yourself rich, or like Obama, who does everything in his presidential power to help terrorists, and harm America and the American people, only then will America be able to start making some progress in the right direction.
Step One: Remove Obama From Office
The Department of Veterans Affairs seems unwilling to fire its employees, regardless of outlandish conduct. A new investigation has turned up instances in which employees had sex at work or slept in patient rooms only to receive mild reprimands.
This misconduct occurred in hospital facilities spread out among West Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Three facilities, one in each region, disciplined, but did not fire, a total of 300 employees, according to a Freedom of Information Act request by NBC4 Washington.
In one case at the Martinsburg facility in West Virginia, employees actually had sex at the center. Another employee slept under a blanket in a patient room during work hours. Still another was placed under investigation for being high on cocaine.
One employee dealt heroin off facility grounds and was subsequently arrested. The VA allowed that employee to return to work. At a facility in Maryland, the VA reprimanded an employee for not treating a veteran who suffered a head injury at the medical center.
The VA issued a statement to NBC4 Washington, saying, “Where performance or conduct issues warrant removal, VA takes appropriate action to terminate employment.”
Employees being high on cocaine or having sex at work is, apparently, not serious enough to warrant removal.
Recently, the VA has taken fire for refusing to let go executives Diana Rubens and Kimberly Graves for defrauding the government of over $400,000 in taxpayer funds. The VA has since refused to recover those funds, a move which legislators like GOP Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, think is a tacit endorsement of fraud. Miller recently introduced a bill to empower VA Secretary Robert McDonald to take back those funds. (RELATED: VA Refuses To Take Back Fraudulently-Obtained Bonuses, So This Rep Introduced A Bill To Do Just That)
Instead of firing the executives, the VA decided to demote the two to general employee status. That demotion attempt failed, as the VA did not deliver key evidence used in their decision process. (RELATED: OOPS: VA Accidentally Ruined Attempt To Demote Corrupt Executives Rubens And Graves)
Given VA’s inability to fire employees unless they blow the whistle on misconduct, Miller has focused his energy on forwarding the VA Accountability Act. This bill would allow the secretary to fire any employee at the department for poor performance or misconduct. But President Barack Obama has threatened to veto the legislation, saying that it is counterproductive and would make it difficult for the VA to attract top-tier talent. That line of reasoning is what prompted Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal to block a rush vote in the Senate to pass the bill.
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