in relation to a lot of the chatter about the VA issues, that everyone is under the impression that the VA (Or this or that agency) is “underfunded”.<\/p>\n
Let me clue you all into something. There is NO SUCH THING as an underfunded agency. <\/p>\n
In realworldland, “Underfunding” means “Businesses closing their doors”. Anywhere in government, ‘underfunded’ means “My uncle and my brother and my cousin needed jobs, and now there is no money left to do the shit this agency is supposed to do. I NEED MORE MONEY! I’M UNDERFUNDED!” This is an Ouroboro- as Professor Hale so aptly puts it- that will absorb resources no matter how many it is given- like a goldfish growing to the size of it’s container, like a walmartian spending to the limits of it’s SNAP card, there is no amount that any agency can absorb and not claim underfunding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
in relation to a lot of the chatter about the VA issues, that everyone is under the impression that the VA (Or this or that agency) is “underfunded”. Let me clue you all into something. There is NO SUCH THING as an underfunded agency. In realworldland, “Underfunding” means “Businesses closing their doors”. Anywhere in government, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}