Death of a Nation

A veteran endures another long wait at a V.A. hospital

It was Gen. Douglas MacArthur who once famously said that "old soldiers never die, they just fade away."

That was back in 1951 when the legendary general closed out his brilliant military career with a speech he gave to Congress on April 19, 1951. It was a rousing speech; the kind that America's military heroes used to make back in those innocent times.

Of course, the general did die 13 years later in 1964 at the age of 84. Thankfully, he never lived to see the catastrophe that the Veterans Administration has become that has forced many old soldiers to fade away from debilitating diseases before they died of neglect at the hands of an utterly corrupt government.

The V.A. scandal is now old news. Phony waiting lists were created by corrupt administrators at V.A. hospitals to prolong the waiting times of seriously ill veterans, many who died because they were denied access to the care they could have gotten and should have gotten.

We were told that the waiting lists had something to do with a financial bonus system set up to reward corrupt bureaucrats at V.A. hospitals. Allegedly, sick veterans were recycled over and over on these lists to make it appear as though they were being given top priority to get the medical care they so desperately needed. Whatever.

When the scandal broke, V.A. hacks and their political and media mouthpieces claimed that the deplorable health care was the result of the agency's insufficient funds. 

And yet the V.A. is funded by the U.S. government to the tune of $11 billion a year. It's been reported that 13 employees at the now infamous Phoenix V.A. hospital where the scandal first surfaced, earn at least $300,000 a year. 

One of those employees is an orthopedic surgeon who earns $357,000 a year which is more than twice the average for doctors who work in the state of Arizona. 

So obviously, there's plenty of money to go around for the bureaucrats and physicians who are plugged into that juicy political power that blessed them with those lucrative jobs. But we're told there's not enough money to take care of those who fought to defend a nation that has now betrayed them.

Naturally, after the scandal broke, President Obama claimed he found out about it by watching the nightly news. And this from a man whose sycophants continue to defend as one of the greatest minds in human history. 

That "great mind" finally realized the anger coming from all those veterans and he threw Secretary of Veterans Affairs Gen. Eric Shinseki under the bus by firing him. That was a token act that won't fix the V.A. 

Obama then feigned ignorance of the V.A.'s massive troubles. That's what he usually does when he tries to avoid taking responsibility for problems that manifest on his watch. But he didn't feign ignorance of the V.A.'s problems on the presidential campaign trail back in 2007 when he acknowledged the agency's problems and pledged to fix those problems if he was elected president.

Of course, after he was elected in 2008, Obama broke his promise and never fixed the V.A. That was just one of many lies told by one of the "greatest minds" in human history. 

As for Obama, he's about as useless as fertilizer on artificial turf. Bad leaders come and bad leaders go away, and this bad leader will eventually go away as well. And the sooner, the better.

I don't believe for a moment that Obama was oblivious of the V.A. scandal. I believe that he wants to punish the veterans because (1) he hates the military; (2) the military loathes him and (3) veterans tend to vote for Republicans. This is his way of screwing those who he grew up hating and he still hates.

Tragically, when a nation embraces terrible leaders such as Obama who betray those who fought and sacrificed for its freedom, then that nation comes under a curse. 

Barack Obama isn't merely a terrible leader, he's God's judgment upon a wicked nation that has turned its back on God and defecated on His laws. 

As the Lord spoke against the ancient King of Assyria, He speaks these words to America today: "Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them. Nothing can heal your wound; your injury is fatal. Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?" (Nahum 3:18-19)