“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 Obama, Inauguration (2009)
Well, since Steve beat me to the VA malfeasance on the mismanagement that is Green Energy, I figured I add to it. And this ain’t working and proves the point that a third party won’t be as careful with the first party’s money as the first party would (e.g., Obama won’t spend your money as carefully and efficiently as you spend your money – and why should he as there is no incentive to do so?)
VA HOSPITAL BOUGHT $311,000 IN TVS “BECAUSE THEY HAD FUNDS AVAILABLE:” Taxpayers give bureaucrats money so bureaucrats can spend it just because they have it. That’s apparently the attitude the prompted officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs Detroit hospital to buy $311,000 worth of TVs that were never used and ended up in storage.
Age old story – if it’s in the budget, spend it, or next time around, they’ll cut the budget. So spend it.
Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group reports that the TVs were bought in 2013 and intended for use in a new patient area to be constructed. Three years later and the new patient area has yet to be built and the warranties on the unused TVs have expired.
(H/T: Instapundit)
