VoteVets Chair Jon Soltz: Critics Demanding Shinseki Resignation Are ‘Hypocrites’

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http://www.nationalmemo.com/vote-vets-chair-jon-soltz-critics-demanding-shinseki-resignation-hypocrites/

Soltz: The only veterans organization making that demand is the American Legion. Nobody else has, other than the American Legion. I find that hypocritical because they supported a bill that was in the Senate – the $21 billion veterans package sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) – and it was stopped by [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell (R-KY), yet they haven’t called for Mitch McConnell to resign. So there’s obviously a lot of partisan politics here. The issue with General Shinseki is [that] he was right about the Iraq War. It’s sort of unconscionable to fire somebody who is now trying to clean up the mess that was left by a prior administration: All of these new Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were not created by Barack Obama and his administration. When you look at the claims on the system and the role that has been played by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, I think it’s rather ironic that they’re calling for the head of General Shinseki, who has been a reformer at the VA, and has opened up the claims process to so many more veterans – I find that completely hypocritical.

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1. Wasn't the whole purpose of "keeping separate books" to keep "higher ups" in the dark?

Short note to Faux News: "Keeping a separate set of books" was a technique invented by the PRIVATE SECTOR, not Government.

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2. Top 8 Ways Companies Cook the Books

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/analyst/071502.asp

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3. This in NO ways describes anything that the VA does. Government and Private Business are different.

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4. Yes!

The purpose of private business is to make profit. The purpose of government is to serve people.

Government might not always get it right 100% of the time, but I'll put my faith in government any day before I put it in a private business.