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NO MORE – An Open Letter to the People of Arizona

To The Citizens of Arizona:

Arizona It has been my pleasure to have lived in Arizona four separate times since 1996. Employment and pleasure have brought me relocation opportunities, and I have enjoyed my time in Arizona. However, since my return in 2005 to the present, I have feared for the soul of Arizona. I have watched as despicable and detestable politicians have won political races that never should have been won. I have witnessed governors act in cowardly and craven methods to thwart the people’s will. I have witnessed those elected to Federal Offices from Arizona stop being held accountable to the electorate until the politicians have set up a hegemony and no longer fear the ballot box. Most egregious of all, I have witnessed the veteran community become increasingly abused as every day ticks past. Patriotism

In April 2021, I wrote about my interactions with Rep. Greg Stanton (D) and his staff, where the VA is concerned. For almost an entire year, I have been injured, cited, and arrested, denied care, had untold HIPAA violations, and other disgraceful conduct taken against me by the administration and leadership of the Carl T. Hayden VAMC. In December 2020, I reached out again to the federally elected representatives, asking for help to clear my name and remove the atrocious behavior of the VA, all to no avail. The Duty of Americans

All four Senators rejected my pleas and never bothered to respond. All of the members of the House of Representatives from Arizona refused to reply, save the staff of Rep. Greg Stanton (D). Except, Rep. Greg Stanton (D) and his staff, did nothing! Had no priority, refused to communicate, could not maintain pressure, and bought the lies and excuses of the Carl T. Hayden VAMC administrators. These are the same administrators who create a crisis for veterans through inaction, duplicitous action, poor behavior, and refusal to perform the jobs they were hired to perform. I have made it clear that the Administrators of the Carl T. Hayden VAMC and VISN 22 are but one dead veteran from another scandal to dwarf the death list scandal that originated with the VA administrators in 2012 and repeated in 2016.

VA 3 No VA Administrator has addressed the root causes of those scandals, and without proper persuasion from Washington, D.C., they never will! Worse, without continuous scrutinization, the bureaucrats will continue to exemplify the duplicity and failures, hiding behind designed incompetence and tissue paper-thin excuses for poor behavior. Yet, what do we find from those enjoying elected office? Zero interest, half-truths, straight lies, misinformation, smoke and mirrors, and plain laziness! We, the electorate, find the politicians sitting on their hands, engaging in hopeless and stupid legislation that will go nowhere, and we find lackadaisical meandering in the House and Senate leadership. I have witnessed amoebic life with more robust spines than the current political leadership in Arizona! Image - Quote Poltics is Dirty

It is true, Arizona is not the only state suffering from political abuse of the basest sort and blackest hue, but Arizona is where I have personally seen the destruction hit the hardest. During Senator McCain’s tenure, my requests for help were rebuffed, but I could still obtain assistance from the House of Representatives members. Now, the political party doesn’t matter, the politicians have plastic ears, and plastic lips, and their hearts are full of desire for political gain and not the electorate’s support. Who loses, the electorate! Who wins, nobody!

America, I ask you, in the year and change between today and the next election cycle, what will you do to change America’s government? Arizona, you have been duped, lied to, and dishonored by those elected to power. What will you do to reclaim the honor, integrity, and political government you deserve and pay so much for? Apathy

Personally, I have been betrayed, and I am sick to death of pleading for reprieve only to have lackluster performance, at best, provided so I would just go away. I know of no honorable politician representing Arizona, and their respective staff is worse than the politician! From the Mayor of Phoenix to the Governor, including the school boards, judges, and so many others, the fear of the ballot box is shrinking, and the bureaucrat is winning. In contrast, the scrutinization of bureaucrats and other duties are dodged to win another term, always with a complicit media running interference.

I did not elect the media to their position, and since the media is not elected, they can be removed. However, while the politicians are elected, the fear of the ballot box needs to be retaught to the politicians. How does a citizen get a politician to fear the ballot box; you first buck the trends and stand like a rock in a stream. Then, as additional rocks begin to stand, a dam is built, forcing change to that stream. Plato 3

If we are to change the government and retain our freedoms and liberties under the Rule of Law, we, the electorate, must first get the politicians to fear the ballot box! We, the electorate, need to also teach accountability and responsibility to those who claim power but who only obtain power from those choosing to be governed! We, the electorate, hold power over these politicians and the bureaucrats spawned in the legislative branch of government. So claim the power that is yours, and join your friends, neighbors, and communities in demanding better from those elected.

Knowledge Check! I heard the mayor’s office in Phoenix complain that they have no power over the Federal Government. To think this is treason of the vilest kind. Let me reiterate something discussed in several previous articles. The local government stands as a bulwark against the county government overstepping its legal boundaries. The city and county stand against the state encroaching against the freedoms and liberties of the state government. The state government defends its citizens from the Federal Government’s encroachment, and the individual citizen is the most potent force in our Republican form of government.

Plato 2 Cease the sophistry of plastic language and do your job! End the tyranny of plastic words and work to aid the citizen in protecting their rights and freedoms from the ever-encroaching thieves of government and the bureaucrats spawned in the darkest pits of legislative fiat! So stand, every American citizen needs to stand and refuse to be governed until those elected are replaced with people willing to take action and honor the Rule of Law, holding previous politicians accountable and responsible for the mess America is currently suffering under. Enough is enough, and I have reached the end of my tolerance, and my cherubic demeanor has been replaced with a hunger for justice!

© 2021 M. Dave Salisbury
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NO MORE BS: Have You Heard?

Duty The following is a recap of several stories that should have been big news, but since the corporate media is practicing “Biden Behind Covering” (BBC), I doubt this news was heard anywhere. However, this information is critical, and I have included the links if you want more than my paltry summation of the story. I encourage you to always hit the links included in the articles I publish, so you know where I get my source materials.

Judge for yourself the importance of the following, but I encourage you to judge wisely, for America is in deep trouble!

Inflation Definition: Formula & How to Calculate From the NCSL regarding the future of finance, we find a curious article, “Do State and Local Governments Need to Worry About Inflation?” The simple answer is absolutely, as the continuing pension crisis will be multiplied as inflations grows. How much is inflation up, a year ago inflation was 4.2% less than it is today. But that is a statistic that doesn’t carry the real weight of the problem. If you owed $100 last year, without interest calculations, you now owe $4.20 more. That $10.00 steak is now $10.42, before taxes. That tank of fuel, before all the taxes, is $0.42 more expensive than a year ago, and inflation was already hurting America. The way inflation works is comparable to running on a freshly waxed floor in your socks, you have to exert more effort to maintain your same spot, forget slowing down, or stopping for that will include falling. Let me reintroduce you to a term used in the early 1970s, stagflation. Stagflation occurs when the inflation rate is so out of control, no new jobs are created, employers are looking to cut employees left and right to maintain shareholder profits, and the entire economy grinds to a messy halt.

Inflation may erode PTI's political capital - Newspaper - DAWN.COM Risk managers across the financial system are looking at the government on the Federal, State, and Local levels and are not liking what they see as inflation continues to grow beyond the Federally approved 2% annual allowed rate. As taxes adjust for increased inflation, it will require more money to pay taxes to maintain current levels, as inflation depletes the value of dollars saved. Thus, every government is looking at their “Rainy Day” funds, and are watching it depreciate as inflation increases, and this is happening before a penny is even spent.

Vaccine From SHRM, we find the next astounding piece of news, the “EEOC Gives the Greenlight for Limited Incentives for COVID-19 Vaccinations.” Mandatory vaccinations are illegal in the United States, currently. However, incentivizing vaccinations by an employer has now been made acceptable. Do you see a problem with this EEOC ruling? Did you notice how slippery the slope is between employers incentivizing vaccinations and mandatory vaccinations? During periods of higher inflation, how much value is $500, from an employer to vaccinate? Other employers are allowing employees to sticker their badges showing they vaccinated and can stop wearing a mask in public. No sticker, you have to keep your mask on. Slippery slope? Colleges, K-12 Schools, and other organizations all have a hodgepodge of rules for mingling in a post-COVID government mandated lockdown, as the “New” normal.

Do you see the problems with employers picking winners and losers based upon vaccination status? How long before those who cannot, or will not, be a guinea pig for a useless vaccine, that is shrouded in mystery, and which has zero long-term studies completed, for a viral disease with a 99.02% chance of survival, are shown the door because of risk averse insurance policies? I have some concerns with this decision and remain convinced that the EEOC has been bought and paid for by parties unknown. Their last several decisions have left me seriously concerned. Watch the bureaucrats, they are sneaky! Plato 2

Virginia Allen, writing for The Daily Signal, provides the next piece of news that should be wall-to-wall with parents marching. “California Public School Gives Third Graders Assignment About ‘Place on Gender Spectrum.’ Let that sink in for a moment. 9-year-old students are being asked to choose where they place themselves on the “gender spectrum.” What the heck is a “Gender Spectrum?” At 9-years old, I was more interested in getting better at little league than I was about anything else, except my paper route. A quote from the article sums the problem nicely:

“The school board is completely indoctrinated. Many teachers are completely indoctrinated. … You cannot change their mind. The only thing you can do is vote them off [the school board] and let them know there are consequences to teaching children inappropriate things for their ages.”

When your politicians are no longer afraid of the citizens they afflict, tyranny has begun to reign! California is a perfect example of what happens when the populace checks out, the politicians stop fearing the ballot box, and power concentrates under a single party. Now, ask yourself, is this the America you want for your kids and grandchildren? I know my answer! Apathy

Cal Thomas also writing for The Daily Signal, presents the scariest topic of all, “Ministry of Truth 2.0.” Consider for a moment, you make a comment in a grocery store, an off-hand comment to another person, the next day a person from Homeland Security is knocking on your door to discuss your passing of disinformation, who possesses the legal authority to place you under arrest, no evidence needed, and you are guilty until reluctantly allowed to be innocent. From the article:

“Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is reportedly considering the development of tools that would help America’s children discern truth from lies and know when they are being fed “disinformation.”

Millstone of Designed Incompetence If you have not read, or listened to, George Orwell’s book 1984, you might not recognize “the Ministry of Truth,” which is the propaganda arm of the government who rewrites history to what the government says it is, and not what actually happened. Would someone please explain to me who appointed the Homeland Security Secretary the harbinger and decider of truth and lies? When the media cannot even get the truth right, how will a government, senate appointed, person who serves at the pleasure of the current sitting US President know, recognize, or even understand truth? When the media allow truth to be “subjective to circumstances, environments, and cultures,” how will bureaucrats be able to discern truth?

Tell me, how will the tools be protected from the bias of the tool designers? One of the biggest issues in modern research is researcher bias; yet somehow the secretary of Homeland Security can magically control bias to protect the tools from the opinions, knowledge, experiences, and politics of the designers. Exactly how will this occur? Do you recognize how slippery this slope is, and how dangerous? Why

As a homeowner in a town that is within 50-miles of the southwest border, the continued blind-eye being turned to the southern border infuriates me. Please, follow this link, and then consider what is being said. Do not look at the politics of the situation, do not listen to the political leaders and political commenters. Listen to your heart, your gut, your conscience, and tell me, if the 9-year old girl was your sister, cousin, daughter, what would be your response? From the article we also find the following:

“The cartels are making an ungodly amount of money on a daily basis, somewhere to the tune of $15 to $25 million a day in just the trafficking and smuggling of human beings. That doesn’t include the narcotics. We’re seeing, for example, fentanyl, 5,000% increase in fentanyl coming across the border.”

America Is Crying Digital Art by Deborah Vicino Want to hear the truth about the problem on the southern border, let’s talk about “got-aways.”

“Got-aways” are individuals that are crossing the border illegally that don’t want to get caught. They don’t want to go through processing because they are either a gang member, someone on the terrorist watch list, a convicted sex offender, [or] a violent offender. These are people who know that once they are caught, they will get turned right back around because of their record, because they have a record in the United States.”

From January to June, the Border Patrol, through all their efforts, have lost around 200,000 “got-aways.” These are people seen on cameras, who have eluded apprehension, and are now roaming American streets. A convicted sex offender was given a small baby to help him cross the border. Where the parents of this child are, no one knows. So, even when they get caught, we still have problems getting rid of the vermin mixed into this humanitarian crisis. How many terrorists from non-South and Central American countries have slipped through as “got-aways?”

Knowledge Check! America is being taken for a ride by the Cartels who run the Southern border! This is the truth, and anyone trying to tell you something else is selling snake oil and trying to make a buck off the tragedy that is the US Southern Border. Like all evil and conspiring people through history, the innocent are the shields covering the criminal actions, these children deserve better, but they will never have a future until America becomes a land of laws again, where the Rule of Law is honored.

Can you hear the Statue of Liberty weep at how are laws are being manipulated by the drug cartels, for the glorification of single-party rule and fiscal return on investment?

© 2021 M. Dave Salisbury
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Weep America! – The VA Leadership is Becoming Worse! – Part 2

Angry Wet Chicken One of the first rules in overseeing junior people working is to make available someone to answer questions, immediately, and render support if needed. I have had the pleasure of training junior people in a myriad of tasks over the years. When I read this Department of Veterans Affairs – Office of Inspector General (VA-OIG) report, a plethora of questions arise, and I deeply question the professionalism and competence of the doctor overseeing the work of residents in a VA Hospital who are performing procedures.

Ophthalmology Resident Supervision – Important to note, the patient did not experience any long-term loss of sight over this issue. Congratulations to the resident and the other ophthalmology doctors present! From the VA-OIG report we find the following:

“… The subject ophthalmologist failed to provide adequate resident supervision and entered inaccurate documentation related to supervision for a single patient case.” Essentially, the doctor charged with overseeing residents was AWOL, and then compounded his error by falsifying patient records. The VA-OIG report continues by claiming this falsification was the result of an oversight when using pre-recorded notes for patient files.

Draw your own conclusions. Personally, I think this doctor needs to be released of all duties where overseeing residents is concerned. I would also question his ethics and morals for falsifying patient records. You hold a double position of trust, first as a doctor, second as a teacher and leader of residents, and the behavior witnessed should come with steep repercussions professionally! VA 3

Knowledge Check! On the topic of professional duties, and steep repercussions, drug interactions killed a veteran at the Marion VAMC in Illinois. Before launching into the VA-OIG’s report, please allow me a moment of your attention. Drug interactions can arise due to vitamin usage, over-the-counter medications, and from illegal and legal but illicit drug use. Often, I have claimed that people are walking chemistry experiments, and even vaccines need to be carefully evaluated for drug interaction potential. Foods can cause drug interactions due to the chemicals in the food. Drug interactions are a growing problem and every medical professional I have spoken to admits drug interactions are becoming worse by the day. I do not say this lightly, but I do not hold the medical professionals as fully competent in fighting the drug interaction problem due to the amount of chemicals the average person interacts with daily. The problem is Big-Parma and the continual push towards more specialized medicines, we are going to see more drug interaction issues. Unfortunately, drug interaction issues come with the risk of death!

From the VA-OIG report we find the following:

“The VA-OIG substantiated that high cholesterol contributed to the patient’s death; however, the death certificate indicated that the primary cause of death was accidental acute multi-drug intoxication. The psychiatrist and staff failed to document providing the patient with education during a telephone encounter regarding potential side effects or adverse drug-drug interactions of medication changes. Contrary to clinical guidance, the psychiatrist prescribed long-term benzodiazepine use for a patient diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. The psychiatrist also failed to address the patient’s two negative urine drug screens for a prescribed medication and failed to address a positive urine drug screen for cannabis. Due to COVID-19, the facility failed to launch the Psychotropic Drug Safety Initiative Phase Four Plan. The primary care provider did not comply with facility policy by failing to enter a return-to-clinic order following an appointment but could not determine if this affected the patient. Primary care and behavioral health staff did not comply with facility policy to telephone the patient or send a letter after the patient missed appointments” [emphasis mine].

The lack of staff to follow procedures and do their job, I will certainly hold them accountable for, especially since Cannabis is involved! Please do not believe that Cannabis is a non-toxic drug, especially when mixed with other drugs, it can be the fatal trigger in a multi-drug intoxication! VA 3

At 18, low those many years ago, I took the EMT-Basic class, but left for US Army Basic Training before I could certify. Since then, I have received certification as a combat medic and a Journeyman Firefighter (Any industry) which required a lot of hours studying emergency medicine. I am experienced in drawing blood, starting IVs in difficult circumstances, and handling a myriad of injuries. I am not a medical professional by any stretch of the imagination, I simply have a healthy desire to learn, and emergency medicine is a fascinating topic I regularly pursue. I am not a chemist; I rely upon peer reviewed resources and legal and medical websites to stay current on a host of topics. With this as my qualifier I am going to make several statements and you can judge their merit. Feel free to comment.

1. 1. The first rule of medicine is document everything! My first lesson, first day of EMT training, this point was driven home. If you do not write it down, it never happened! Yet, what does the VA-OIG find time after time in reviewing cases at the VHA, lack of documentation of steps taken! Can you say, “Asinine and abysmal behavior by credentialed professionals?” I know I can!
  2. Aspirin and Alcohol can cause a drug interaction that can be deadly. Both chemicals are readily available in the home and over the counter. Why is spray paint now requiring proper ID, because people are huffing the stuff and getting a multi-drug intoxication. Oven cleaner and spray pain can cause serious breathing issues and when mixed together can cause a cheap high, as well as a multi-chemical intoxication leading to breathing paralysis and death!
  3. Cannabis continues to be modified, changed, enhanced, and designed to trigger different chemical reactions in the body. Continuing work that began in earnest in the 1960s for the pot-smokers who wanted a more serious high. Guess what, cannabis and aspirin along with vitamins can cause multi-drug intoxication problems leading to death!
  4. Vitamin D and Vitamin C have both caused serious drug intoxications during COVID-19. People became frightened and took too many of both or just one and wound up in the ER with life-threatening health problems from toxicity of these vitamins. India has reported a spike in black mould that has caused serious long-term health problems for diabetics after recovering from COVID. It is currently presumed that the chemicals used to fight COVID allowed for a natural mould to grow in the body, and that became life-threatening.

The VA-OIG conducted another virtual comprehensive healthcare inspection, and found the same problems continue at another VAMC. Do you know how tired I am of reading these “comprehensive inspection” results and finding the same problems time after time? When will the VA actually start enforcing some of these VA-OIG recommendations to effect change? Better, when will the politicians who are charged with scrutinizing the government tire of seeing the same recommendations and not seeing any change? Bloody frustrating reading these reports and not seeing improvement! VA 3

Broken Robot Finally, we come to what I was hoping to be a great report, where the politician’s heads were going to explode at the inefficiencies, the detestable behavior, and the horrendous responses to legally mandated IT infrastructure changes, and why those changes are not happening at the VA. I was not disappointed; I was thoroughly disgusted that his report fell on plastic ears speaking plastic words from wax lips! Statement of Michael Bowman, Office of Inspector General, Department of Veterans Affairs, Director of IT and Security Audits Division, Before the Subcommittee on Technology Modernization, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing on Cybersecurity and Risk Management at VA: Addressing Ongoing Challenges and Moving Forward May 20, 2021. Notice something, the failures at the VA in the IT Department are being called “ongoing challenges.”

Millstone of Designed Incompetence Let me remind you, FISMA was released on 29 April 2021, and I wrote about the abysmal findings of the VA-OIG. This report is the accountability statement to the Congressional representatives who should have skewered this bureaucrat and roasted him on a spit with onions and peppers, then served him up for public ridicule after firing him! For the Director of IT and Security Audits Division to make the following statement is flat out beyond comprehension, “The OIG’s conclusions in the FY 2020 FISMA audit are not new or revelatory—rather, they repeat many of the same concerns with VA’s IT security that the OIG has found for many years.” What incredible chutzpah to make this comment after that scathing report showed just how deplorable the leadership of the IT and Security Audits Division revealed! Director Bowman then goes on to downplay the band-aid solutions implemented while decrying the time for improvement is too short and there is not enough money. Do not forget, “Of the 26 recommendations, 21 have been included in every FISMA audit dating back to at least 2017.” With at least 15 of these recommendations dating back even further. Want a full list, as well as how old these recommendations are; you will not find it in the Director’s report to Congress! Is anybody incensed enough to demand a full accounting of just how old these IT recommendations are?

Detective 4 The gall of this director to continue to blame legacy systems that were legislated to have been scrapped between 2000 and 2010 continues to highlight the incompetence of the director in conducting business and holding people accountable for failed projects and overspending of taxpayer monies! The director went further and stated the following, at which time, every single Congressional Representative should have stood and demanded his head. The “VA does not properly manage and secure their IT investments.” Tell me director, why should you remain employed if the VA does not properly manage and secure their IT investments? Is the failure to manage and secure IT investments the root cause for veterans to continue to suffer identity theft from the VA losing their identity?

The director’s next statement puts his other outrageous comments to sleep. “Security failures also undermine the trust veterans put in VA to protect their sensitive information and can affect their engagement with programs and services” [emphasis mine]. Talk about such an obvious statement, it’s like the sun coming up on a cloudy day, you just cannot miss that sun rise; you also cannot miss the absurdity of making this statement! Did some intern write his speech? You are the director of IT Security and you make this type of comment, did you make this comment with a straight face? I cannot find the video-record of this Congressional hearing so I can only guess he delivered his lines with a straight face! Most detestable of all, he continued to make outrageous comments, his plan to move the IT security program at the VA forward is weak, lacking firm deadlines, and continues to allow him and his staff to escape accountability and responsibility. VA 3

Angry Grizzly Bear America, with these bureaucrats in charge, why shouldn’t we be weeping and wailing, and gnashing our teeth in frustration? When will we, the owners of this atrocious government, finally scream ENOUGH and demand a full change of heads at the ballot box? For until the elected representatives are forced out, the bureaucrats abusing us, will only continue! The VA is sick, but the problem lies in the bureaucrats, administrators, and directors leading the VA at the Federal and VISN levels. So many other government agencies are just as sick, or worse, and the same problem arises, the leadership refuses to act, but still expects a big titanium parachute when they leave office! I say it is time to tell them NO!

© 2021 M. Dave Salisbury
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As the Department of Veterans Affairs Goes, So Does America – A Warning!

I-Care Would the honorable elected representatives please answer the following question: “Are the veterans of America’s armed services the next ‘Tuskegee Syphilis Study?’”

While we await this answer, here is why the question is raised. The Department of Veterans Affairs – Office of Inspector General (VA-OIG) just posted their investigation results of the Critical Care Unit Staffing and Quality of Care Deficiencies at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia, and the results remind me of the game musical chairs and the disaster caused by the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Musical chairs because the VA-OIG was unable to ascertain direct harm because of record screw-ups, gross mismanagement, and a detestable and despicable perception of the patient. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study because real harm to real people was caused, and the leadership did not care enough to fix the problems without an official investigation.

More on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study – History can be viewed in the link.

The VA-OIG report begins with the following:

“Critical Care Unit Staffing and Quality of Care Deficiencies at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Augusta, Georgia discusses significant patient safety issues including events related to noncompliance with pressure injury policy, intensive care unit cardiac monitoring, and sitter availability for high-risk patients.”

Pressure Injuries — Bedsores/Pressure Injury Progression

But concludes with the following:

“Publication is warranted so that other facility leaders and healthcare practitioners can be made aware of OIG-identified problems applicable to their own facility.”

Leading me to ask, of the VA-OIG, is this warning to proactively fix, or retroactively hide the nefariousness of poor management and dead patients?

Pressure injuries are exceedingly painful, can become deadly very quickly, and leave scarring and pain. Pressure injuries are the nice term for bed sores, which are caused by critically ill patients who are already unable to move and circulate blood properly to the skin. Thus, the tissue dies, a sore develops, then the skin breaks, and by this time that patient who is already in trouble, is now in danger of death.

Bedsores, pressure injuries, are serious conditions; yet, the Charlie Norwood VAMC has record-keeping problems, staffing issues, and without outside impetus refrained from fixing the problems. All reminiscent of the “Tuskegee Syphilis Study.”

Hence the articles originating question, “Are the US Military Veterans the next ‘Tuskegee Syphilis Study?’”

If so, I refuse, and those leaders who think this conduct is allowable need to be held personally responsible for the harm they are causing. If the answer is no, why are so many VA-OIG reports of leadership and management’s nefarious deeds being allowed until the VA-OIG comes knocking? Even after the VA-OIG investigates, is anything being done? Are people being held accountable? The leadership issues are repeated, and while those repeats might not be an exact match from VAMC to VAMC, the leadership problems are real, glaring, and real people are dying!

America was shocked and angry when the whistle and plug were finally pulled on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and rightfully so.

Yet, it appears that the VA learned nothing from the history of Tuskegee except to keep playing musical chairs on responsibility, paperwork, and hiding the evidence from accountability.

America, your medical system, which before President Obama was the best in the world, is now on the same train of failure the VA Medical System is on. Are you paying attention to the harm caused to veterans? Do you want the same? I do not!

America, to correct the problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and to reduce the costs to the taxpayers, as well as beginning to correct the damage done to your health care, the following is needed immediately.

Legislation needs to be written and passed repealing ObamaCare. Every single mandate, every single costly item, and sunder forever this socialism experiment. The answers to the rising costs of medical care, including dental and vision, are not to be found in increasing the size of an already bloated government.
Legislation needs urgent action to provide Secretary Wilkie the powers of any other CEO to clean the Department of Veterans Affairs. The leadership between the veteran facing employee and the Secretary’s office needs to be culled, and the only way to do this is through legislation.
Demand accountability. The VA-OIG reports these issues constantly, the findings need to be on the news and be topics of conversation. No longer should a bureaucrat be able to shift responsibility, harm patients, and keep their comfortable jobs and benefits. Real harm to real people is being caused by the medical system paid for by your tax dollars, demand more!

Understand the following principle, know it well, and let us begin processing the reversal of this trend. Charles Reich (1964) wrote a Yale Law Journal article describing “New Property.” The new property Reich discusses is you and me, and how we are used by bureaucrats like property to be abused, harmed, and mistreated, all through the largess of the government we pay for. Like a wheelbarrow or a hammer, we are the fodder upon which the bureaucrat steals money from one person to pay another person through government benefits, all to the enrichment and personal satisfaction of the bureaucrat.

Government Largess 2 The actions of the nameless and faceless bureaucrat are unconstitutional, but allowed in the name of “government action.” Every time you hear the government is acting on your behalf, it means that the power of the people has been stolen, and will be doled back to the taxpayer in infinitesimal amounts, while the bureaucrat keeps getting fatter. Think Reich (1964) is wrong, here are some examples.

The government went to war against poverty, the poor have become poorer, poverty’s blight has spread, but the government offices “fighting” poverty are fat with people and taxpayer dollars.
The government went to war against drugs, the only winner so far has been the government. The drug infestation has only gotten worse, and now states have begun selling harmful and illicit drugs for the tax money.
The government got into student loans, to “make the lending field fairer.” Students were harmed, colleges and universities tripled, or more, their tuitions, and students are saddled with increasing levels of debt. But, the government officers in charge are living high on the debt and interest.
The government allowed labor unions to represent government workers, now the taxpayer is abused, treated like scum, taxes went up, but responsibility and accountability under the “Rule of law,” that all citizens are expected to live by, have all but disappeared for government workers. Ever tried getting adjudication or remediation from a government worker?
The government and some private citizens decided black health needed improvement. Planned Parenthood and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study are but two of the disasters that hit the black communities and have destroyed their community’s legacy, honor, and power, all for government largess, and the lining of private pockets.

Choose to stop being the property of the government; the US Constitution declares the government works for us, and we control them, not the other way around!

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