Repairing The Damage Donald Trump and Elon Musk Have Done to Veterans
By: Michael Embrich
another reason why I have zero respect for any active or former service members that still support trump ...
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Lives ruined. G.I. Bill mortgages heading into default, mass firings of veterans across the government, and 80,000 job cuts coming to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, all in the name of supposed cost savings sought by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But a new U.S. Treasury Department report shows that the Trump administration has spent $155 billion more than Joe Biden at the same point in his presidency.
DOGE claims to have saved the government $150 billion, which most experts doubt. Even if you accept their own dubious accounting, the grand total of savings to the federal government under Donald Trump amounts to negative $5 billion.
As the MAGA faithful make their plans for the $5,000 DOGE refund checks that will never come, the reality is that Trump and Musk have ruined the lives of countless veterans and will destroy the lives of countless more — all for the sake of throwing red meat to their Truth Social and X internet flunkies.
When all is said and done — when the veteran suicide rate spikes, and when American taxpayers are burdened with billions in defaulted VA loans from fired veteran and disabled veteran federal employees — will anyone from the Trump administration or Musk be held accountable? I'm not counting on it. But if no one is held accountable for this absolute crime committed on the backs of our nation's veterans, why would any American ever raise their hand to serve their government again, knowing they could be treated so poorly and so callously?
As Musk gets trolled in his video game chat rooms for being the epic loser that he is, Musk can always just rage quit, shut the game off, and go spend his vast fortune alone. But for the many veterans he has destroyed and the other federal employees who support veterans, whom he mocked by quoting the movie Office Space, it won't be so easy. They will need to start over. They will need to find new jobs. They will lose it all, further hurting the American economy that Musk's boss is currently destroying.
The only way we can ensure this never happens to our veterans again is by making sure of two things. One, that no one can ever take jobs or funding away from our veterans again — either by switching to a not-for-profit, single-payer health care system in America, or by moving the entire VA under the wing of the Department of Defense. Two, by drafting new legislation that gives campaign finance laws real teeth. Democrat or Republican, you should go to jail if you break campaign finance laws. Make the Supreme Court jump through hoops. If they bring down another Citizens United ruling, Congress can just draft new legislation with different wording. Show them all that we will not stand for billionaires hijacking democracy.
Elected leaders, if you really care about America and you really care about veterans, now is the time to risk it all, even your office, for democracy. If you can't see that, then we don't deserve democracy, and no one will ever be held accountable for the heinous crimes they have committed against our most esteemed citizens, our veterans.
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... uh, yeah, I don't think so.
we're rapidly approaching the tipping point where maga cultists will spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders ...
gee, trump was right. vets that still support him really are suckers and losers ...
If the US ends up in another significant military conflict we will probably need to reinstitute the draft. You’d after to be out of your mind to think this government will give two fucks about you for volunteering to fight for it.
Oh, they'll ask you to sacrifice but mutter what a loser you are under their breath
maga will volunteer, because it'll be a lot safer for them to be in a war zone than being in america ...
What's this about Musk mocking veterans?
Any veteran here who still supports trmp and company will get no respect from me and I won't acknowledge your existence. Shame on you!
There will be no repairs. It would be wise to focus attention on what needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Band-aids haven't worked. It really is time to tear it all down and start over. There is a lot of deadwood in government because of mandates to hire veterans. The preference for veteran hires didn't include ability to perform the advertised job. We ended up with a lot of people, in a lot of positions, who couldn't do the work. The size of the Federal workforce is so large because a lot of deadweight has to be accommodated.
Newsflash: Veteran suicide rate began spiking during the Biden administration. It rose from 22 a day in 2001 to 34 in 2022. Trending is showing it may be as high as 40 in 2023 and 2024.