Guy is spot on.

HOWARD — The scandal at the VA is yet another symptom of the “bonus culture” that has infiltrated management of all our institutions. When the measures used to evaluate success of the organization become the target by which executive pay is determined, corruption and criminality follow.

This was the case when bankers falsified mortgage applications and financial products almost destroying our economy in the financial meltdown. It happens when chief executives rig company earnings to give themselves fat checks and it happened again at VA hospitals. At the VA (unlike the banks) someone may even go to jail.

However all these are examples of how thievery has become the acceptable norm among those who profess to lead our largest corporations.

Frank Ingram