Just a few weeks before the Obama Administration threw our national security over the fiscal cliff, Vice President Joe Biden blew $459,388.65 on one night’s hotel stay in London and $585,000.50 on one night’s hotel stay in Paris. In true “Marie Antoinette” style, Biden wasted $1 million of American taxpayers’ dollars in February 2013 on his hotel bills during a SINGLE WEEKEND… he also wasted $321,665 for a limousine company to drive him around Paris during that same weekend. A few weeks later, on March 1, 2013, the sequester went into effect and the Obama Administration made outrageous cuts to U.S. national security that resulted in thousands of illegal immigrants getting released from detention, thousands of U.S. border patrol agents getting furloughed, 149 air-traffic control towers getting shut down, curtailment of U.S. military training, and a massive pay-cut for 800,000 civilian employees at the Department of Defense.
As if that wasn’t enough of a show of the Obama Administration’s (lack of) priorities, it’s been revealed that 900,000 U.S. veterans are waiting for disability and other benefits and that “the number will surpass one million “very soon.”… 600,000 of these claims are backlogged, meaning those veterans have been waiting for more than four months to access their benefits… on average veterans are waiting 273 days.” It turns out that the backlog for U.S. veterans’ benefits jumped 179% during Obama’s first term in office. When Obama became U.S. President, there were “390,000 outstanding claims, of which only 22 percent had been pending for more than 180 days. That number had been falling during the second George W. Bush administration, despite the military being heavily engaged in two wars.” Clearly, the Obama Administration can’t meet the high bar set by the Bush Administration. Today, veterans are dying while waiting for the benefits they’re entitled to. Incredibly, the bureaucratic nightmare at the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is so out-of-control that “At the VA’s Winston-Salem Regional Office in North Carolina, an estimated 37,000 claims folders had been stored on top of file cabinets… Those piles had been stacked two feet high and two rows deep. The file cabinets were so close to each other that drawers could not be opened completely” and the stored files weighed so much that the “structural integrity” of the building was in question, with “floors bowing under the excess weight to the extent that the tops of file cabinets were noticeably unlevel throughout the storage area.”" Here’s a picture of the Obama Administration’s incompetence:
