“Well, this is what they voted for…”
Don’t forget about voting to be sexual assaulted, strangled & beat in the head with a big rock until dead. A lot of people voted for that too…
Sept 8th 2022 walks across our open borded & given a ticket to show up at court in 2026. (Stay in Mexico rejoicely repealed in 1st 100 days of new prez) Goes to NYC for free lodging, food & cash in the form of SNAP cards. Arrested for endangering a child Sept 14 2023. Released without bail & given a free plane ticket to Atlanta. A few weeks ago given the benefits of free food, books, healthcare, TV, computer, clothing, education & lodging for the rest of his life. Obviously voting can be a dangerous thing. But here’s the thing, we can fix the VA system and nothing has changed yet. But ain’t no bringing no dead girl with a caved in skull back from the dead, that’s finished.
Enjoy your Kool Aid
I don’t see it as politically feasible, and neither does anyone else. I suspect this to be a political football, designed to stir sentiment, not debate, same as Project 2025. I’m not sure which says more about how few recognize a track rabbit at the greyhound races when they see one.
OTOH a plurality of veterans would like to see the VA hospital system privitized. The massive popularity of outsourced medical treatment vs in-house supports that. The VA medical system is… well, it’s not good.
Few Veterans wish to see VA health care privatized, and if you read the linked article it states there is growing support for the idea.
Project 2025 is moving forward
I have no data on it, but I suspect that if you were to poll vets who have been shunted to non-VA medical centers for treatment, you’ll find a high number who prefer it vastly over VA services.
I’m biased, certainly. Two of my siblings are disabled vets. Both are deeply critical of the quality of care available, unfortunately this includes PTSD treatment, which is perhaps the most critical service offered by the VA.
After the experience of spending a couple of years trying to help a veteran friend to obtain timely diagnosis and treatment from the VA, I am very much in favor of privatizing VA healthcare.
Give Veterans the same SES Federal BlueCross BlueShield plan as the senior bureaucrats.That is a Cadillac plan.
Compared to the VA, the NMC is very efficient and effective government program.
Concerning the VA, I don’t have a dog in the fight except for being a caring patriot & taxpayer. I know & worked with plenty of verterns. The only ones who I heard say anything good about the VA were land based who had the time to work the system on their terms. The first most disheartening story I heard was pre 9-11 & it was from an active service guy who said his whole family pitched in to have his child be born in a private hospital because they didn’t trust wife/mother & child with a joint VA/military hospital. The best I heard was from a young wounded Afghan War veteran neighbor of mine. He had a lot of shoulder surgeries & they took care of him. He told me they did a good job. Probably the closer veterns live to a VA hospital & the more time they have on their hands the more they like it.
Concerning the article referenced by the OP. As soon as I got to the Project 2025 part I quit reading it. Pretty much anybody who has a faux fear of Project 2025 is a propagandist spreading their wares. I have yet to met a signal person, Republican, Democrat or Independent in favor of that rubish. It’s like that Q-Anon, Russian Collusion, Tin Foil Hat non-sense. Task & Purpose is left of center publication & only left of center likes Project 2025 because it gives them a boogeyman to talk about. There’s more than a few Republican war veterns in Congress & actually a Republican just proposed a bill to preserve & improve the VA on Dec 3rd. Link below.
BTW, if a vertern lives too far from VA access or the wait time is too long at the VA, I hope Veterans can access private care without additional charges. Why the hell not?
Then why did so many people vote to enact it?
I love you Capt Phoenix. Your cg regulations & licensing advice are normally spot on. But how many times do I need to tell you, no one voted for Trump for Project 2025. Trump & everyone on the planet hates Project 2025. What we voted for was to buy Greenland & to fund Israel to keep the Jewish Space Lazer in orbit. Nothing to do with Project 2025. You got on the wrong tin foil hat concerning conservatives.
He’s appointing multiple authors of it to his cabinet…
Project 2025 is a wishlist by conservative policy wonks. Some of it sucks and some of it is pretty good. Some of it will become Executive Orders or legislative proposals, but most of it won’t go anywhere. It’s just a battle plan written by a committee.
Some famous general said that battle plans do not survive beyond first contact with the enemy. Most of Project 2025 won’t either.
At this point, it makes the most sense for us, the public, to support Trump while asking for things we want.
For example, a total housecleaning at the USCG and closing down NMC.
because the alternative was better
or sleepy joe Biden crime family who never had a job outside of government where the bar is very low I know I work in government where just enoungh and your a star
I don’t know any vet that uses the VA that wants it privatized. What they do wish is that the system be better funded. More doctors, nurses etc hired and wait times reduced. Years ago they also made some local labs available for testing which saved a trip to the VA hospital, good move. In 2014 Veterans Community Care Program was created on a trial basis to turn over some VA health care to private care. In 2020 Trump made it permanent. Costs with the VCCP program have sky rocketed from 8 billion to 31 billion in 2024 due to expensive tests ordered, unnecessary treatments, the usual money making schemes. This eats into the budget of the VA in a serious way. These private guys aren’t on salary like the VA staff they are on commission. VA primary care doctors actually get a bonus for keeping their patients healthy thus requiring fewer hospitalizations.
There’s a a well known way to take over a potentially lucrative government service. Under fund it to reduce the ability to do the job and then claim privatizing it will make it better and cheaper. Once its private the only concern is keeping the stock holders happy.
Like they did with prisons and like they’re trying to do with schools.
my predictions - worth all ya’ll are paying for them.
Trump signs a bunch of executive actions - most/all of the important ones
get challenged in court - not much happens for 2 years
Trump/Republicans propose a bunch of new laws, knowing none will have bipartisan support - and will be filibustered - not much happens for 2 years
Musk et al - propose a bunch of sweeping changes to the US Government - cutting social security, eliminating all kinds of jobs, - all sounds great - None of it makes it through congress - not much happens for 2 years
Trump proposes mass deportations - it gets challenged in court - nothing much happens for 2 years
Trump proposes huge tariffs on everyone - including California !! - never makes it through congress - nothing happens for 2 years
Prices don’t come down ( they never do) -
Boarder apprehensions don’t change all that much from 2024
Trump claims repeated victories on social media for reducing prices that didn’t go down, and deportations that never happened, and lower crime rates that never changed and all the proposals that never happen, half the country believes him
Republicans lose the house/senate in 2026 - nothing else happens for 2 more years
Trump declares he is the greatest President ever - and the country should let him have 4 more years to MAGA
Goddamn it… I miss the 90s.
If they do it is called “Deflation”, which is even worse than “Inflation”.
Japan struggled with Deflation for a decade or more and lost it’s position as a treat to USA. Maybe not a good thing to hope for? (But I’m sure Mr. Trump know that)
Now China is facing the possibility of Deflation.
Some may hope they go the same way as Japan.
Project 2025 is a “wish list” similar to the paper you fill out in the military. Also called a “dream sheet”. You can write all you want but it probably ain’t gonna happen.
“well, this is what they voted for” seems appropriate