This is exactly how socialized health care works in the real world. Bureaucrats spend money on themselves; f— the sick people.
The inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs has opened an investigation into why the director of the Philadelphia regional benefits office was given a $288,000 “relocation payment” to move from Washington, D.C. last year.
Diana Rubens was awarded that hefty sum to make the 140-mile move from her previous job in Washington, D.C. where she served as the agency’s deputy undersecretary for field operations.
Here’s a picture of the bureaucrat who required 5x the median American income to move 140 miles.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
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But. but…but she’s ENTITLED to it! Like Hillary!
You sexist pigs. Have you no SOCIAL CONSCIENCE?
Sorry – had to get that out there before someone SERIOUSLY brought it up…
There is a recurring motif in anime that focus on military characters of the rank-and-file being decent, the field officers being fiercely loyal to their subordinates, and the desk-jockey officers and politicians on the home front being greedy jerks conspiring with whatever shadowy villain is manipulating the military. Eventually, the rank-and-file get wind and turn on the command staff.
It has a nice sense of poetic justice. Pity there’s so little of it in the real world.
Bull dyke.
Was that $288,000 a tax-free gratuity?
That’s our government at work-let veterans die but spend almost 300K to help a worthless executive move. And why in the world did it take almost 300K to move her? U hauls aren’t that expensive.
This isn’t just the VA. it is how connected Democrats help their friends milk the system for more than the law permits. Jocelyn Eldars was paid as a private contractor to the Surgeon General’s office while she awaited confirmation. Her pay was three times what the salary cap was for SG.
Hillery’s personal aide, Huma, is also paid as a contractor AND a government employee so she can make FAR more than the salary cap on her position.
As a veteran I’m disgusted on how the VA treats my fellow veterans. We accepted low pay, exposure to danger, disease, and possibly death, in the defense of our nation. For what? A promise that after our enlistment or retirement all of our basic needs would be met as reward and a right conferred by a grateful nation. One sector, the important one, has defaulted on that promise. The VA! Fortunately for me the only benefit that I have used was to buy my first house on the VA. I had the good fortune to work for companies that had good health plans. Living outside the U.S. and having a relative in a doctors office , I receive excellent attention to any health issue that might arise.
The sad thing is there are homeless veterans out there and my gay tax dollars are paying to bring in more savage moslems to the US and put them on welfare like the Boston Marathon brothers. Taxpayer paid classes for somoli’s on how to use a toilet with the taxpayer paid house, food stamps & welfare when a homeless vet could use that without the toileting class.
There are people in health care that voluntarily help people & you have people like her that wont even do her job for being overpaid.
Now that’s the kind of woman that made me switch in the first place.
And yes, I went there. Deal with it.
Regards,
Peter H.
For $288k, they must have skipped the U-Haul and simply jacked up her fully-furnished house from its foundation and drove it on a flatbed from DC to Philadelphia.
“And yes, I went there. Deal with it.”
Is that like “Talk to the hand”?
No, I was thinking she and her ‘friend’ made a LOT of trips to Home Depot…
“Rubens was paid more than $181,000 in base salary last year. She has also received other controversial payments in the past. She was given $97,000 in bonuses between 2007 and 2011 even though claims processing times doubled to 325 days on her watch.”
I just have no words. Why is this woman being paid more than a physician or two nurses?
Why is this woman being paid more than a physician or two nurses?
Wrong question. Why is she being paid more than the federal salary cap permits ANYONE to be paid? And why as a chief federal executive is she getting a bonus, when those are supposed to go to deserving employees to encentivise them to work harder? Isn’t being the queen (and all that goes with it) incentive enough?
I volunteer to take her job at much less salary.
There is no question about it. The federal government has incomprehensibly large amounts of money, so much money that the numbers have lost all meaning. And THAT’S the danger of humongous (“big” no longer describes it) government.
Professor Hale, you don’t understand. Actually evaluating the job performance of any employee is just too darned difficult. It’s easier to just bonus all of ’em; if a few who should be fired instead get a bonus, ah well, stuff happens, and what difference, at this point, does it make?