White House on the Veterans Administration: "We don't do the small stuff well" - Granite Grok

White House on the Veterans Administration: “We don’t do the small stuff well”

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”  – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

VAAnd that has been Obama’s and the Progressive mantra – size of Government doesn’t matter but if it “works”.  Progressives have placed all of their belief into the [misbegotten, from my standpoint] view that Government is full of non-partisan experts that can run our Society in an efficient manner.  Remember, Progressivism began in the Industrial Revolution, when machines were mechanical, big, and wondrous things.  They reasoned that Government should be so – and in charge of the even larger machine of Society.  Which, as I have said before, reduces the rest of us to mere cogs in that machine – and they are OK with that.  But is that machine working?  No, because after all, we ain’t cogs.

When I went over to Newsbusters (quoting a National Journal piece) and saw this, I nearly plotzed when I read this:

“Questioning why the Veterans Affairs Department hadn’t been overhauled months ago as promised by Obama (actually that was seven years ago, plus six other times, Ron — Ed.), a senior White House official conceded privately to me, ‘We don’t do the small stuff well. And the small stuff is the important stuff.'”

You bet the small stuff is important – and if Government can’t handle doing the small because it is so big, dontcha think there’s a problem there?  Because there is a whole lotta of Small than there is a whole lotta Big.  “Attention to detail” is the mantra of high performance organizations (think SEALS, Special Forces – that are Government and DO get that right) where their mission is no just a job until retirement.  If it can’t do the Small, then perhaps it is time to rethink that Progressive mantra that Government can only do good when those wielding the levers of power admit that Government can’t.  Too Big To Fail is not just Big Banks and Big Companies – that thought is just about Too Big regardless of what the entity is.  And that is the point inadvertently made in the next part of that Newsbusters post.

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