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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 11:59 AM Mar 2015

Watch Sarah Palin push a Koch-backed scheme to kill the VA and replace it with vouchers

Sarah Palin is using recent scandals to apparently push for the dismantling of the Veterans Administration.

The federal agency has been rocked in recent months by scandals – including the deaths of at least 40 veterans awaiting care at facilities in Arizona — that resulted in a shakeup of its top leadership.

New VA Secretary Robert McDonald was recently forced to apologize after misstating his military service record while speaking to a veteran during a photo opportunity, which Palin said called his character into question.

Palin cited these and other incidents in a Facebook video posted Tuesday evening as justification to “clean house” at the VA and “fire bad employees like we do out in the private sector.”

more + the video
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/watch-sarah-palin-push-a-koch-backed-scheme-to-kill-the-va-and-replace-it-with-vouchers/

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Watch Sarah Palin push a Koch-backed scheme to kill the VA and replace it with vouchers (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
How about instead of replacing it with vouchers that we just FUND THE DAMN THING PROPERLY LynneSin Mar 2015 #1
Why don't we come up with a plan to replace Palin LiberalEsto Mar 2015 #2
I will not watch Sarah Palin do anything. Why would anyone... TreasonousBastard Mar 2015 #3
What in the hell does SP know about the private sector? Wounded Bear Mar 2015 #4
To be fair, she has served as Chairman... pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #6
Hopefully the vets will finally notice what a poser she is. n/t betterdemsonly Mar 2015 #5
So instead of just 40 vets dying, Palin wants to get rid of VA and let them ALL die. Rex Mar 2015 #7

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
1. How about instead of replacing it with vouchers that we just FUND THE DAMN THING PROPERLY
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 12:04 PM
Mar 2015

instead of treating Veterans care like entitlements.

Come on Republicans - you sent these people to war now take care of them!!!

I know we democrats have no problem finding the money needed to take care of the veterans. We just need the votes from the GOP to make it happen!

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
3. I will not watch Sarah Palin do anything. Why would anyone...
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 12:22 PM
Mar 2015

watch Sarah Palin do anything?

Is there any other losing VP candidate out there saying stupid shit that we listen to?

Wounded Bear

(58,743 posts)
4. What in the hell does SP know about the private sector?
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 12:34 PM
Mar 2015

My senses tell me she doesn't know shit about any sector, public, private, or familial.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
7. So instead of just 40 vets dying, Palin wants to get rid of VA and let them ALL die.
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 12:50 PM
Mar 2015

What war did she serve in again? Okay I kid, what branch of the military was she in again? Oh right, well what branch of the military are her children in?

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