Posted on 03/21/2025 6:52:54 PM PDT by JohnKinAK
Poll: Do You Support the VA Cutting 80,000 Jobs? Last Updated: March 20, 2025 1 Comment
Veterans and military families, please take a moment of your time to answer our urgent poll about what is happening at the VA. It only takes a few seconds, and we believe it is critical that you voice your opinion on this matter. Thank you!
Agreed. My neighbor had a family member fired from the VA who was hardly deadweight. He was apparently engaged in research on brain injuries, something that could help seriously injured veterans in the future. But the VA under DOGE let him go anyway.
Now you’re talking. DOE is unnecessary, IMO.
They’ve called back some who were let go in other departments, and this easily could happen to this person.
It seems that they’ve done some across-the-board RIFS, then reviewed positions, recalling those who are necessary.
My stepmother worked for the State Department. She was a great employee, but shortly before retirement, she was offered a promotion to a supervisory position, and she refused, even though it would have meant a step up in here pension.
She didn’t want to deal with employees who were uncontrollable due to the civil service protections. I said to her, why doesn’t she take the promotion anyway and just relax and get the bigger pension. But she didn’t want to do that.
I certainly hope that happens with my neighbor’s relative. The only people who should be really be let go, if possible, are the seat warmers.
The VA system needs to be restructured. You would be shocked to know how much VA money and resources goes to things other than patient care.
The issue at hand is whether or not these 80,000 help, or harm vets. Think back over your own contacts with government bureaucrats. Did they make it easier, or harder for you to accomplish your own personal goals? In my experiences, government bureaucrats generally make things more difficult.
Research is done by grants, not by employees.
I hear stories from my brother-in-law who works for the VA.
They should privatize it.
The VA is like the union. Jobs for people who don’t work.
He learned all about how to file for bogus disabilities from the people he works with. Some of them are on full disability and “work” full time. Major freak out when they had to report in person.
Service got better when Trump fired a lot of the useless/incompetent ones - then Biden hired most of that dead weight back...which tells me they can pare down and do better at the same time...
“He learned all about how to file for bogus disabilities from the people he works with. Some of them are on full disability and “work” full time. Major freak out when they had to report in person.”
VA Fully Disabled is separate from SSDI Fully Disabled. 100% VA disabled are not prohibited from working.
Sad to hear ppl were filing for “bogus disabilities”. What is “bogus”? Like tinnitus or pain neither of which can be seen?
Major freakout would be a veteran with PTSD and other issues having to commute and work in person for duties that can be performed remotely. They’d have to choose between health and work. So they lose their job in most cases.
How about we get rid of the VA and outsource it to the competitive free market
The VA will be able to do much more if they reduce the headcount. They are a bloated bureaucracy.
If there is waste in the VA, money spent on unnecessary or duplicate positions that take money from actually taking care of, providing services to Vets than they should be eliminated and the money spent as it was intended, actually on Vets.
Yes,tinnitus.
I have it.
He gets partial disability and couldn’t describe the symptoms correctly. I doubt he has it. His job before the VA was selling hearing aids. You think he would of filed then.
My wife did not take the chair position in her department for that same reason. So they gave her the higher grade anyway so she could fill in on a temporary basis.
She was the first female psychiatrist at a large VA with 29 psychiatrists on staff.
If anyone ever examines the number of women in the military with PTSD as related to their overall percentage, they would never put them in combat situations.
Their rate of PTSD is about double that of men in the military.
No. Maybe about 20,000. But they increased at about the same rate of employees as other major health groups, and they started a new initiative dealing with new coverage for gulf War breathing issues and late appearance of agent orange issues with viet Vets.
Parasites are in ALL governmental job descriptions...sort out all of the parasites. Some are merely more cunning than others.
The White Hospice knew TrumpII was coming. Sometimes this shit is so pre-ordained it makes me sick.
Installing the first decrepit USSA Premier in the debauched form of Biden, in 2020 Pennsylvania takes 100 hours to report their results. 4 years later, Shapiro literally nails Pennsylvania's 3am Election Night overnight reporting time from 2016 on the nose. Explain that!
The people that are playing games with our Republic still aren't behind bars, they still have not been frog-marched in public, they are still not Exiled.
They also started all the women’s issues clinics due to the increase in women in the military. That created many new medical specialties that did not exist for men.
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