AP: "Senior VA Officials Get Big Bonuses" I just don't know what to say anymore!

[in_cog_ni_to]

I'm speechless!:grr:


AP: Senior VA Officials Get Big Bonuses
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer

3 hours ago

Graphic compares average bonuses for the Veterans Affairs officials ...

WASHINGTON - Months after a politically embarrassing $1 billion shortfall that put veterans' health care in peril, Veterans Affairs officials involved in the foul-up got hefty bonuses ranging up to $33,000.

The list of bonuses to senior career officials at the Veterans Affairs Department in 2006, obtained by The Associated Press, documents a generous package of more than $3.8 million in payments by a financially strapped agency straining to help care for thousands of injured veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Among those receiving payments were a deputy assistant secretary and several regional directors who crafted the VA's flawed budget for 2005 based on misleading accounting. They received performance payments up to $33,000 each, a figure equal to about 20 percent of their annual salaries.

Also receiving a top bonus was the deputy undersecretary for benefits, who helps manage a disability claims system that has a backlog of cases and delays averaging 177 days in getting benefits to injured veterans.<snip>

More at link. Emphasis added is mine: http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/05/03/653336.html

[louis-t]

1. Once again, the bush administration rewards failure.

Exasperating!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Heck of a job

strikes again.

[Zywiec]

3. Where do I sign up for one of those positions?

[Javaman]

4. just do this, it clears the head...

:banghead:

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. My head HURTS from doing that!

for 6+ LONG FREAKIN' YEARS. :banghead::

[Javaman]

6. You got the scar tissue too, huh? nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Yes! and several brain concussions.

:banghead: