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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
How will he balance the budget?
Cuts and tell us where, or taxes?
Your answer will indicate if you have a clue on what you're hoping for.
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This is a huge part of the problem - he hasn't told us what he is going to do or how he is going to do it. Instead he makes a vague statement or a bullet point plan.
His plan to fix the VA could have been written by any high school kid. It has some great ideas, but that's just what they are - "ideas"....
- Fire the corrupt and incompetent VA executives that let our veterans down
- End waste, fraud and abuse at the VA
- Modernize the VA
- Empower the caregivers to ensure our veterans receive quality care quickly
- Hire more veterans to care for veterans
- Embed satellite VA clinics in rural and other underserved areas
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All of this sounds great on paper. But the reality is... It's all talk.
He is going to fire the incompetent VA executives? And replace them with.... More incompetent executives? (Just like the ones he hand picked at Trump University?) What he is really going to is sack the guy in charge and replace him with another name from a list someone handed him.
End waste and fraud? Modernize the VA? That sounds like great ideas until you start denying people because we think they are fraud and they start turning around to sue the Federal Government, and Trump would look bad because he is denying Vets benefits. Modernize the VA? It will take six years, billions of dollars, and be a complete cluster fuck. Trump doesn't understand he cannot just hire a firm to do this - There are laws involved here, a bidding process, etc, and it will be horrible.