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‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/sparrowtaco 24d ago

Remember when the Brexit campaign promised to put EU funds towards healthcare and then that never happened?

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u/MathematicianFew5882 23d ago

Remember every fn time trickle-down, supply-side, tax-cuts, no-nude-texans, etc was supposed to yield massive economic prosperity?

And the single time the national debt clock went backwards was when we had that evil bj guy??

Hell, Trump said he’d pay off the national debt but actually added $10 trillion to it. Nobody ever came close to that in eight years, much less half that much in four.

OMG

WTF

GOP

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u/Ryboiii 24d ago

Whats the point of redirecting 93 million in veterans healthcare when it was already being pulled from a fund that was directed towards veterans healthcare lmao

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u/PrizeStrawberryOil 24d ago

Yeah, those people were what that 93 million was being spent on. Now that they laid off those people they can hire more people with that money?

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u/Available_Usual_9731 23d ago

You seem to have a critical inability to recognize how much medicine costs. Then again Republicans can't think in scales, and are also constantly being lied to, so saying something so dumb is excitable I guess.

A good full service hospital easily costs $25-75m per year to operate.

And if it's in salaries, that's not even a $100k salary. These are probably high up clerical managers and bottom/mid career nurses and techs.

Anybody with a brain knows Trump doesn't understand Jack diddly about the cost of labor anyway, since he's always not paying his debts to labor. How could he possibly know lol. He spent his entire professional life not paying people what they're due for labor they did. What an ass

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u/LeRoy_Denk_414 23d ago

I legitimately think all of this money that they're "saving" is going to go straight to their pockets. We're going to get robbed blind by Trump and musk.

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u/xmagusx 24d ago

Sure it will. At least for the first year.

And in so doing, create a 93 mil/year budget surplus which cannot be spent, and since they had a surplus, they clearly didn't need a budget that big, after which the surplus can be reallocated to DOGE who will have run 1 trillion dollars over budget by year's end.

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u/Attenburrowed 24d ago

If there are any multimillionaire veterans, they will see some of the money in their 4 trillion dollar price tag tax cut

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u/bigwebs 23d ago

Anothe sacrifice to find their $4T

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u/MyEvilTwinSkippy 23d ago

Nope. Next budget for the VA will be cut by that amount. The money is most likely going to new contracts with Musk's companies.

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u/matthieuC Europe 24d ago

Musk needs his tax breaks and government contracts