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The GOP wants vouchers for everyone. Even the VA is NOT immune to their scheme. The latest scandal plays right into their hands.
Continual underfunding has left the VA without enough resources.
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Privatize The VA? Would That Really Be Any Better? (Original Post)
TheMastersNemesis
May 2014
OP
Yes it does. And that is exactly how the foreign investor owned corporations want it.
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#4
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)1. Funding the VA is best.
Waging a lot fewer wars would be good, too.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)2. This matter was discussed earlier. Is it what they are after anyway?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. Privatization blocks accountability.
and costs more.
Look at the charter school fraud now being revealed.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)4. Yes it does. And that is exactly how the foreign investor owned corporations want it.
No accountability, untouchable & untaxed.
Why they are billionaires & we are not.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)5. No. Losers in Congress just need to give them the money they need. n/t
sakabatou
(42,162 posts)6. Nope
It'd make the VA more costly to the veterans and possibly more stuff happening.