Under Trump and his new hand-picked VA Secretary, instead of fixing the @DeptVetAffairs, they’re bleeding it dry.

The number of unfilled jobs has gone up by 12,000 since last report.

They sabotage the VA, so service suffers. Then they say “Service sucks! Privatize!”
A few greedy billionaires in Mar-a-Lago are trying to destroy the VA so they can profit off us.

But what’s happening with veterans isn’t isolated. It’s happpening in public education, where @BetsyDeVos undermines our public schools, then uses the sabotage as a pretext for cuts.
It’s happening in the military, where corporate interests, empowered by a revolving door of senior officials, siphon more and more “Defense” money into expensive boondoggles so they can make more profits.

The troops get less for training, basic gear. They need sleep not gizmos.
So while we pour billions of dollars into waste and corporate welfare to feed the Defense-Industrial Complex Eisenhower warned about, corporate lobbyists point to the rising number of deaths and accidents and say “there’s a readiness crisis! We need to spend even more!”
When will our leaders finally stop falling for this scam?

It’s the same scam in every area of our public policy.
They repeat it over and over.
Our institutions are being looted.

And in the end, troops, veterans, our kids, and all working families, we all end up poorer.
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