Audit Finds Accounting Flaws at VA (Admn falsely claimed savings 1.3 bil )

[sabra]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3631631.html

Audit Finds Accounting Flaws at VA

WASHINGTON — Eager to reduce spending, the Bush administration falsely claimed savings of more than $1.3 billion in the Department of Veterans Affairs to justify cuts to health care services, congressional investigators say.

The report by the Government Accountability Office is the latest to document funding woes at the VA, which currently offers health care to 7 million out of 24 million eligible veterans. It found that the agency used misleading accounting methods and lacked documentation to prove its claimed savings.

The audit, released Thursday, comes amid growing political debate about streamlining veterans health care. In the last fiscal year, more than 260,000 veterans considered to have higher incomes could not sign up for services because of cost-cutting, a move decried by Democrats.

"It's unconscionable," said Rep. Lane Evans, D-Ill., the ranking Democrat on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, who requested the audit. "Veterans needing health care are being penalized because of an accounting deception promulgated by this administration."

[JeffR]

1. Fuzzy math

Rat bastards.

[displacedtexan]

2. Isn't there a special circle of hell for these people who...

continually screw veterans?

This is outrageous!

[sabra]

3. "support the troops!"

"freedom isn't free"

[Just Me]

4. So,...they intentionally misrepresented to get what they wanted, again.

IOW,..they lied, they committed fraud, again.

What's new? Nothing's been done about the bizzilion other acts of fraud or abuse. Hell, they've committed a federal crime on upteen occasions and Bush even said they gonna' keep doing it.

These days, crimes against the U.S.A., her people, the international community and humanity is,...just another day in the BushCO/neoconster tyranny.

What else can I say? :shrug:

[entanglement]

5. I have exactly the same 'what's new' feeling for every

newly revealed fraud / scam / crime.

[movonne]

6. How long are people going to put up with this corruption?? today

alone I read a couple of other corruption stories involving this administration...

[atreides1]

8. It's the Republican People

They will accept anything that this president does, if he was caught on camera killing a baby, they would find someway to excuse it.

His supporters, both the populace as well as those in Congress, are only interested in holding on to power, they don't care about the poor, the elderly, the disabled, or anyone else needing help.

They have power and they don't want to give it up.

The next time you have a conversation with a friend or family member who still supports Bush, call them a traitor and walk away. Because that's exactly what they are, traitors!!!!

And yes I've already done it.

[Nickster]

7. Well, well, well. This certainly explains alot for me.

[Sadie5]

9. What else can they possibly find to lie about

We are on the umteenth lie right now.