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Malkin: Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the boot
Conservative Review ^ | March 7, 2018 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 03/07/2018 6:17:35 AM PST by huldah1776

This Obama holdover needs to hear the famous words: “You’re fired!”

Will the VA scandal never end?

While the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary lives high on the hog and his lying chief of staff resigns in disgrace while escaping any punishment, legions of vets every day in this country are denied the medical care they earned.

President Trump was supposed to drain the swamp. But at the historically fraud-ridden and profligate VA, the alligators continue feasting on the public dime.

This latest witch hunt for dissenters comes in the wake of a scathing inspector general’s report last month on Shulkin’s 10-day junket to Europe last summer. The VA secretary spent a grand total of three and a half days on supposed business meetings in Copenhagen and London. For the rest of the time, Shulkin directed a VA underling to act as his personal travel agent — on your dime — to plan sightseeing for him and his wife, including:

–Touring Amalienborg Palace for the changing of the guard and visiting Christiansborg Palace, Rosenborg Castle and Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark.

–Boating and dining in Copenhagen and dining in Malmo, Sweden.

–Trekking to the Churchill War Rooms, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Westminster Abbey, Thames River, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Shakespeare’s Globe, the London Eye and Windsor Castle

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: doj; shulkin; va; veterans
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The swamp creatures have their tentacles imprisoning whistleblowers. While it may be easier to fire people, the VA is still defended by the dept of injustice.
1 posted on 03/07/2018 6:17:35 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

The Deep State has attempted to criminalize any personnel changes PDJT tries to make.


2 posted on 03/07/2018 6:18:44 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: huldah1776

Yes, fire the bassturd. Fire all these assholes that think they can live large on taxpayer money.


3 posted on 03/07/2018 6:26:45 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: huldah1776

He sounds even worse than I thought.
And here’s a question, until the VA’s problems are being turned around, why are WE paying for any VA official to go overseas?!
For that matter, why should we ever in the future pay for a VA big shot to travel abroad?


4 posted on 03/07/2018 6:46:13 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

There are VA Facilities in Philippines, Guam, Samoa,etc. But not England.//


5 posted on 03/07/2018 6:50:19 AM PST by donozark (Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
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To: huldah1776

The exact death toll of the Hillary/Obama ‘veteran holocaust’ will never be known. Hard to quantify. But we all know it happened. Lie. Deny. Wait until they die...


6 posted on 03/07/2018 6:52:38 AM PST by donozark (Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
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To: huldah1776

..appoint Congressman Duncan D Hunter...


7 posted on 03/07/2018 7:02:51 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: donozark

Perfect. Send them both to Samoa.


8 posted on 03/07/2018 7:41:07 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere
Works for me! LOL!

Seriously, Shulkin showed great promise. He got high marks for his work in NJ. But what in hell happened to the man?

9 posted on 03/07/2018 8:03:35 AM PST by donozark (Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
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To: huldah1776

CLOSE THE VA and give them vouchers for any hosiptal they want to go to


10 posted on 03/07/2018 8:18:56 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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A big part of the problem is the VA trying to do too much. As I understand it, the definition of service-related conditions has expanded way too far and now in many cases includes the normal effects of aging. The VA needs to get back to basics and focus on its core function.


11 posted on 03/07/2018 8:56:57 AM PST by Stingray51
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To: donozark

Entitled, perhaps his wife more than he - I think she asked staff to set the trip agenda.
Mnuchin’s wife actually ended up having to be tutored by a protocol expert (which I’m sure wasn’t HER idea) to teach her that appearances count when you’re the wife of a cabinet secretary, you don’t just prance around like Marie Antoinette when the “little people” are watching you and rub it in their faces.


12 posted on 03/07/2018 9:07:55 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: huldah1776; All

“legions of vets every day in this country are denied the medical care they earned”

Malkin is lying here.

Most of the criticism of the VA “denying” care is due to vets who seek VA care and are not entitled to it. The VA was never intended to provide a lifetime of medical care to every veteran. Its charge from the beginning was to provide care for those who were somehow injured in the course of service.

So, anyone who has 50% service-connected disability or greater gets a lifetime of free, platinum care.

Anything under 50% gets a lifetime of care related to that specific disability.

And those without disability get jack, unless indigent.

And I can testify, as can many others, that those in Tier 1 get the finest care they’ve ever had in their lives.


13 posted on 03/07/2018 9:12:59 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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“Lie. Deny. Wait until they die...”

Hove you ever sought or received VA care?


14 posted on 03/07/2018 9:14:29 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mr. K

“CLOSE THE VA and give them vouchers for any hosiptal they want to go to”

There are things the VA does that nobody else does.

Your approach is NOT supported by DAV, American Legion or VFW.

Do you believe you know more about it than they do?


15 posted on 03/07/2018 9:16:23 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

yes


16 posted on 03/07/2018 9:21:18 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: huldah1776

We need to abolish this department. Turn it back into an agency.


17 posted on 03/07/2018 9:25:04 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Mr. K

How so?


18 posted on 03/07/2018 9:44:47 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Yes.


19 posted on 03/07/2018 9:46:36 AM PST by donozark (Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
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To: donozark

Are you Tier I or II?

It matters greatly.


20 posted on 03/07/2018 9:56:05 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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