Ill be at the front of the line clapping if trump makes notable good changes. Thusfar I just don't see his attention to the va he promised as a candidate, looks more like pandering for votes.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Aug 9 2018 12:25pm

Lmfao

and here i thought i inb4'd most lazy pivots. never argue with fools, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience...




welcome to false equivalence. the level of blatant corruption, cronyism, and misuse of the office has reached heights no one thought even possible just two years ago.
to make matters even worse, he ran on a platform specifically promising to get rid of the corruption in washington. remember the 'drain the swamp' slogan? hypocrisy at its best...

it's kind of funny: every time trump messes up, puts his foot in his mouth, shows his utter incompetence, behaves like a complete jackass it's 'well, that's because he's not a politician. he's an outsider.' - but when he's corrupt and breaking his promises, the excuse is: 'well, other politicians do it as well, so what's the big deal?'. very convenient...




hahaha, by what standard? i call bs.
when it comes to things as poverty, quality of life, health, security, crime, education, culture, and even the so prominently touted 'freedom', you are significantly behind many western nations...

barely making the top 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legatum_Prosperity_Index#2017_rankings

This post was edited by fender on Aug 9 2018 12:45pm

this is a long article so excuse me if i missed something.
i mean they are likely people he actually knows... what's the big deal?

some VAs are equivalent to 3rd world hospitals

sad fact

why don't you just provide veterans adequate health insurance so that they are not forced into going to the VA - give them private sector options. as a result you have 1. improved veteran insurance and also 2. will indirectly improve the VA forcing them to improve their standards

This post was edited by Bazi on Aug 9 2018 03:53pm

loving this ellipsis removal i made

i don't know if the article was actually too long to read and too difficult to understand, or if you just don't (want to) see whet the 'big deal' is, but it's right there:



a complete lack of transparency and accountability, alongside the obvious lack of experience and knowledge in their field. the misuse of their position for private gain (for themselves and trump). the fact that they obtained their position as de facto leaders of the VA (they are basically in charge of policy and personal decisions) not based on their competence or political careers, but based on the fact that they are rich members of trump's mar-a-lago club. goes without saying that none of them had a confirmation hearing because officially they are just advisors. only diligent research into the matter exposed this shocking case of cronyism, the official version by the administration tries to hide those truths.

people that no one knew of secretly running the government without any oversight. i think this might be the 'deep state' the right wing keeps warning us about...

ok, i'll bite.
1. what private interests have been effected due to their influence?
2. can we see these documents "obtained through the Freedom of Information Act"?
3. what are some examples of actions taken that should have been transparent?

Just needs more funding.
Privatizing will not be anything different than from going to a regular hospital.
There’s no point.
VA hospitals are part of a benefit system that was promised to people who serve.
I bet if we stop spending stupid amounts of money on shit we don’t need and stop overpaying private contractors, we can afford it.

I know a contractor civilian who gets paid 115k a year to take in a request and forward it to a meeting.
That’s it. He works 2 or 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, plenty of vacation and sick time.
Knock his ass down to 45k or get an active service member to do it. The money saved can easily take care of a good number of people from just this ONE instance.

This post was edited by IchBinDaddy on Aug 10 2018 01:00pm

i don't want you to 'bite', i want you to read and do some critical thinking. that is if those are genuine questions.
i gotta be honest, i have a feeling that you might not really be interested in figuring out how this is yet another case of unprecedented cronyism, but ofc i might be mistaken. so if your curiosity is real, just spend the 15 minutes to read the article, it's really not that long or hard to follow...