Robert Pratt
“A Department of Veterans Affairs employee… was fired after being arrested for armed robbery, but her union quickly got her reinstated — despite a guilty plea — by pointing out that management’s labor relations negotiator is a registered sex offender, and the hospital’s director was once arrested and found with painkiller drugs,” The Daily Caller reported.
The story explained that employees claim the union demanded the robber get her job back because the guy in charge of labor negotiations is a convicted sex offender. (Who by the way reportedly disclosed his conviction to the hospital and VA hired him anyway!)
“The union’s position — that another employee committed a crime and got away with it, so this one should, too — has been upheld by the highest civil service rules arbiters, and has created a vicious Catch-22 where the department’s prior indefensible inaction against bad employees has handcuffed it from taking action now against other scofflaws,” the story summarized.
And herein we have yet another example of how Washington, D.C. and the federal bureaucracy works, or doesn’t work depending upon your perspective.
Empowering people, who in Jodey Arrington’s own words “work well in that environment” seems counterproductive to changing that environment.
Writer Luke Rosiak, the author of the Daily Caller story, added this bit: “And the intellectual elites in Washington wonder why people are angry and want to throw the bums out. In fact, that they remain clueless about this anger and continue to do nothing about this kind of obscene corruption in the government departments that they control is only more reason to throw them out.”
Aside from the obvious ridicule the VA and the federal government deserves for this, it baffles me that there are people in Texas’ 19th Congressional District eager to send another lifelong government and political bureaucrat back to Washington as their Congressman.
Empowering people, who in Jodey Arrington’s own words “work well in that environment” seems counterproductive to changing that environment.
Robert,
The list is long in regard to those who do not serve the interests of the citizenry. At the top of that list is the Texas Speaker of the House and those in the legislature who continue to support him.