Battered by cuts & firings, VA employees describe serving veterans under ‘invisible cloud of dread’ https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031625_va_layoffs/battered-by-cuts-firings-va-employees-describe-serving-veterans-under-invisible-cloud-dread/
Over the past month, the VA has cut 2,400 positions and plans to slash more than 70,000 - and while the department has promised the firings will not harm veterans or their care, VA employees across the country said the cuts and a climate of fear are already hurting veterans.
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This could discourage people from joining the US armed forces, so it does have a silver lining.
@EricLawton @TucsonSentinel It would certainly affect their ability to wage war on our former allies in the long run. But it also means that the ones that remain or are still willing to sign up will be loyalists, and will follow any order no matter how illegal.
Such as deploying on domestic soil and firing on US citizens.
Is that worse than deploying on Canadian, Panamanian or Danish soil and firing on their citizens?
Unjustified murder in either case.
@EricLawton @TucsonSentinel Of course, I didn't say that. It's uncharitable of you to suggest I think that would be any better. But most conservatives have a problem seeing why they should care about something if it doesn't affect them personally.
I didn't think that *you* thought that but you implied that a significant number of USians do, by including that clause.
Especially the military. "Serving" Trump.
@TucsonSentinel 💔These veterans served us well and this government is forsaking them.
@TucsonSentinel #MAGAmoron is only interested in appearances. Just like the dirty, nasty air ducts at #MAGALardo, #MAGAmoron doesn't care about ancillary support. To him, #VA #MSA (medical scheduling assistants,) nurses, security, drivers, pharmacists and all other functions that keep it running smoothly are taking too much money from his pocket, aka #USTreasury. The plan is to privatize everything to make it easier for him to collect his vig.