Saturday, January 25, 2014

At Least In Romania, People Are Held Accountable

Unlike the Obama administration, in Romania, they hold people accountable.
From the LVRJ: A small plane crash on a remote mountain wouldn’t normally be enough to anger an entire country or threaten the government. Romania, however, is dealing with just this scenario.
So far, four senior officials including the interior minister have resigned or been fired after all those onboard a medical flight initially survived Monday’s crash in thick fog. One of the pilots and a medical student later died of hypothermia among other causes after waiting for hours in deep snow to be saved.
Romanians reacted with fury, taking to social media and talk shows to accuse the government of incompetence and complacency after it emerged the least injured of the survivors called emergency services six times.
It took 4 ½ hours for local villagers and a woodcutter to locate the plane in Transylvania after it lost altitude and crashed at 1,400 meters (4,600 feet) above sea level. But medical teams arrived hours later and were reportedly ill-equipped. The plane, carrying two pilots and five medical workers, was on its way to pick up a liver for a transplant.
“The government generally does nothing, and in this case they did nothing to locate the plane. A woodcutter had to find them,” aviation professor Nicolae Serban Tomescu said. “The rescue operation was like Swiss cheese. There were holes everywhere.”...
The blowback has taken its toll on the government, which is vying to win a presidential election in November. Interior Minister Radu Stroe handed in his resignation to the prime minister Thursday to become the highest-ranking government official to leave his post in the scandal. The country’s air traffic control chief, the head of the emergency services and another senior Interior Ministry official have also lost their jobs.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta fired two of those officials and called for the resignations of others not under his authority. Addressing the national mood Thursday, he used his strongest language to date pointing to “serious errors in the rescue operation … particularly the techniques used for identifying the wreckage.” He promised that in the future authorities would be “much more efficient.”  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/small-plane-crash-romania-causes-uproar
If Romanian officials were in charge of the fraud and disaster of ObamaCare, many officials would have been fired and maybe they would have fired the head of DHSS, Katherine Sebilus and the rest of the incompetent fools who run ObamaCare.
And who knows, maybe Obama would have had some dignity and resigned.  But the pompous asshole that he is, he would never do that.

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