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Marco Rubio to VA secretary: Employees who steal narcotics 'should be fired'
Orlando Sentinel ^ | April 26, 2017 | By Naseem S. Miller

Posted on 04/26/2017 7:15:01 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

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To: Pearls Before Swine

> I didn’t know that a government employee could be fired. /S

OK, so put them on unpaid leave until they finish serving their 500 year jail sentence.


22 posted on 04/26/2017 7:46:52 PM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Wait, so you can be a govt employee caught stealing narcotics and NOT be immediately fired and prosecuted??? Just another example of the evil bizarro world libtards have given us.


23 posted on 04/26/2017 7:54:16 PM PDT by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: Karl Spooner

I zip trust for that guy.


24 posted on 04/26/2017 8:00:22 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I’ve seen people arrested at Army hospitals for this. Why is this even being discussed at the VA?


25 posted on 04/26/2017 8:04:43 PM PDT by Gamecock ("We always choose according to our greatest inclination at the moment." R.C. Sproul)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

employees who steal anything need to be fired


26 posted on 04/26/2017 8:05:41 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

employees who steal anything need to be fired


27 posted on 04/26/2017 8:05:44 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: KarlInOhio

LOL!! Like 2nd grade!!

So sad


28 posted on 04/26/2017 8:07:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Jim from C-Town

If she writes a handbook on how that works, a lot of us retired veteran’s could use a cost of living allowance:)


29 posted on 04/26/2017 8:11:36 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Pearls Before Swine

They probably can’t be fired but they sure as hell can be arrested for stealing and trafficking in narcotics and put in the pokey.


30 posted on 04/26/2017 8:24:10 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Civil Service can’t normally be fired. That’s how we converted the Spoils System which was rife with temporary corruption into the Civil Service system which is all corruption all the time. In the old Spoils system the crooks could at least be fired and/or jailed. With Civil Service they are, in effect, godlets and untouchable.


31 posted on 04/26/2017 8:26:52 PM PDT by arthurus
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They can be fired for criminal activity. Why is this even an issue? Unbelievable.


32 posted on 04/26/2017 8:28:14 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Scrambler Bob

It is supposed to be but apparently isn’t. I recall some hooha about a couple of court cases some years ago in which CS employees who had been fired for flagrant theft were ordered reinstated with back pay and legal expenses.


33 posted on 04/26/2017 8:29:31 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: elpadre

Civil Service and union members all. Firing one is an extremely expensive proposition. It would be cheaper to reassign them to laundry products inventory somewhere.


34 posted on 04/26/2017 8:32:13 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Brad from Tennessee
in my state the nursing board will discipline nurses who take drugs...but they consider it an illness that they offer counseling for...

I say if you steal, you steal...you should go to jail....

35 posted on 04/26/2017 8:33:08 PM PDT by cherry
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To: dragnet2

Me neither, but the fact remains that they have never found him doing anything illegal despite a couple of investigations. This one may be different, but I doubt it. Sort of like Trump getting audited every year.


36 posted on 04/26/2017 8:34:15 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I was going to add a quip, but after reading all your posts here, I decided that I couldn’t improve on the humor here.


37 posted on 04/26/2017 8:39:45 PM PDT by Gumdrop (She made her bed and is now lying in it.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
I didn't know that a government employee could be fired. /S

Had to fire two - long and tough row to hoe but it can be done.

38 posted on 04/27/2017 3:26:52 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Why don’t our GOP-led House, Senate and presidency reform the horrible government service rules we have across the board—including getting unions out of the federal government?

How often do we all those branches of government purportedly under the GOP banner and why can’t they target the actual reforms to drain the swamp?


39 posted on 04/27/2017 5:33:53 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Cementjungle

And the VA somehow is a special case? What about the rest of the government!?!


40 posted on 04/27/2017 5:34:35 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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