War Veterans Paying for VA Incompetence

As we learn more and more about the total incompetence of the Bush Administration the latest examples shouldn't shock us. Somehow though they continue to do so. Recently 26 million veterans learned their personal information was compromised when a VA computer was stolen. The employee was terminated by the Veterans Administration for using the laptop to work from home.

Now today we learned the computer was recovered. Meanwhile we have also learned the employee terminated had permission to work from home with the data and President Bush has authorized $160 million in budget cuts to pay for the fiasco. This includes $29 million for the VA. So spending for veterans programs is being cut to pay for the costs associated with this computer loss. A federal employee was terminated because some official stupidly allowed him to take the computer home.

Is there nothing this White House can do? Any agency they can run professionally? Pretty soon I'm going to think it's all a plan to convince the public that there's no such thing as good government.