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[Skjellyfetti]

Trump's Federal hiring freeze fucks over veterans

[kalm]

Trump's Federal hiring freeze fucks over veterans

I forwarded this to my friend, the VA Pharmacist, and she said only if they make it administrators. Floor level staff are squeezed as it is. She's never been this busy and she came from the private sector. She asked how he can make educated decisions of this magnitude only three days into the job? (she's a scientist and apolitical)

That's the challenge with sweeping policies. Across the board hiring freezes or budget cuts seem like fair and great ideas until you realize not all agencies are the same and some are more important than others.

[YoUDeeMan]

Trump's Federal hiring freeze fucks over veterans

VoteVets...

Hey, everyone! There's a crisis over here! Look at me!!

[CAA Flagship]

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[kalm]

Trump's Federal hiring freeze fucks over veterans

VoteVets...

Hey, everyone! There's a crisis over here! Look at me!!

That same friend I just mentioned asked last week if my boys had any old size 9 or 10 shoes for a homeless Vietnam vet patient she was consulting.

[Baldy]

Trump's Federal hiring freeze fucks over veterans

Since VoteVets is a far left organization that only endorses Donks.....

[kalm]

And the hits just keep coming. Meet Trump's FCC Chief.

Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Verizon...go free market competition!

http://fortune.com/2017/01/24/trump-fcc-chief/

[BDKJMU]

The VA should be exempt like Defense and Homeland Security.

However, the notion that we should keep, and expand, a bloated federal bureacracy just to be able to employ more vets is wrongful thinking. It also insinuates that these vets can't get other jobs besides fed govt, which is wrong.

[YoUDeeMan]

The VA should be exempt like Defense and Homeland Security.

However, the notion that we should keep, and expand, a bloated federal bureacracy just to be able to employ more vets is wrongful thinking. It also insinuates that these vets can't get other jobs besides fed govt, which is wrong.

Exactly.

[YoUDeeMan]

VoteVets...

Hey, everyone! There's a crisis over here! Look at me!!

That same friend I just mentioned asked last week if my boys had any old size 9 or 10 shoes for a homeless Vietnam vet patient she was consulting.

And what does that have to do with VoteVets?

[93henfan]

Everyone take a chill and have a laugh. This is worth the four minutes, trust me. It's big league:

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[kalm]

That same friend I just mentioned asked last week if my boys had any old size 9 or 10 shoes for a homeless Vietnam vet patient she was consulting.

And what does that have to do with VoteVets?

Not much...it just helps with my civilian guilt.

[kalm]

Everyone take a chill and have a laugh. This is worth the four minutes, trust me. It's big league:

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Not bad....

[HI54UNI]

Everyone take a chill and have a laugh. This is worth the four minutes, trust me. It's big league:

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[YoUDeeMan]

Ahhh, yes. Let's protect those poor Federal workers in the VA.



"Days into Donald Trump’s administration, heads are finally beginning to roll at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Two notoriously corrupt employees in Puerto Rico were fired this week, indicating that more may be on the way.

One is the hospital’s CEO, DeWayne Hamlin, who offered an employee $305,000 to quit after she played a role in exposing his drug arrest.

“Mr. DeWayne Hamlin was removed from federal service effective January 20, 2017,” the VA said. Jan. 20 was Inauguration Day.

The other person fired recently is a woman who took part in an armed robbery, then kept her job while she was in jail, and continued to work in the hospital’s security office while wearing an ankle bracelet.
After TheDCNF broke the story, administrators told Congress it wasn’t true and Elizabeth Rivera Rivera had been fired, before backtracking and claiming that it was impossible to fire employees for off-duty crimes.

Outside lawyers ridiculed this explanation, and spokesmen at the time would not say why she wasn’t simply fired for missing work because she was in jail.

She was suddenly fired Tuesday for misconduct, including being absent without leave and failing to disclose other arrests on her job application, which her background check apparently did not catch.

The hospital has numerous other felons on staff in positions where that background is relevant, and the hospital has simply ignored questions about why. The precedent set this week may suggest that their backgrounds may finally be considered by the VA.

Among them, Tito Santiago Martinez, a human resources official in charge of hiring and disciplining at the facility, is a convicted sex offender who said “there’s no children in [the hospital], so they figure I could not harm anyone here.” The employees union uses his status as leverage to keep rank-and-file employees who run into trouble with the law on the job.

Braxton Linton is a high-level manager in charge of buying prosthetics such as hearing aids, often with government-issued credit cards. He was hired just weeks after release from federal prison for stealing $70,000 using credit card info he lifted from his previous employer. He also been arrested on drug charges while working for the VA, and it is unclear whether he disclosed those arrests to his employer.

Past criminal behavior has been shown to be a predictor of future conduct. In 2011 the hospital also hired a man who had a criminal record for illegal firearms in 2007. Last year he was killed in a shootout suspected to be related to drug dealing. He was carrying his own illegal gun again, but didn’t manage to fire first.

Lopez was only one of several employees who provided evidence that Hamlin had punished them for not covering for his misconduct. Within days of his taking over the hospital, his deputy said he had wrongfully billed taxpayers for moving expenses. He forced the deputy out.

Records also suggest Hamlin was often missing from the hospital.

In December, Sen. Jeff Flake introduced a bill requiring the VA to stop hiring felons, and to fire the ones that already work there. The American Federation of Government Employees union has refused to say publicly whether it opposes the bill.

During the Obama administration, eleven sex offenders listed the Detroit VA hospital alone as their work address; some of them were fugitives wanted by local police, but the VA cited employee privacy.

Rapists and kidnappers also work at nearby hospitals. An Ohio VA employee, Antoine Hall, was convicted of creating pornography depicting a 13-year old in 2014. Hall is wearing a VA badge around his neck in the sex offender registry picture, meaning he was still going to work after being sentenced, and even received a bonus in 2015.

Ralph Wood was convicted of child molesting in 2006 and sentenced to five years in prison, with three years suspended. He was released in 2008 and almost immediately began working at the Indianapolis VA hospital as a clerk. David Allison was convicted of child molesting in 2007 and began working in “medical support assistance” in 2010. His five-year prison term was suspended, but he was likely still on probation."




Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/24/days- ... z4WpyI1wd3

[YoUDeeMan]

Hmmmm...503 message.

Anyway, the previous post went through.

The VA is a garbage heap. Drain the swamp.

[Wedgebuster]

Dow 20k. Looking like today is the day. Futures up over 20k 20 minutes before opening bell.

#TrumpTrain

Buy, buy, buy!!

[CAA Flagship]

Well this is interesting. Seems that the Netherlands can stand on their own. Who knew?

The Netherlands has committed $10 million for an initiative to replace funding for abortion services in developing countries that will be lost due to U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on financing foreign groups that provide abortions.

Trump reinstated a policy on Monday requiring overseas organizations that receive U.S. family-planning funds to certify they do not perform abortions or provide abortion advice as a method of family planning.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dutch-commit ... tml?ref=gs

[YoUDeeMan]

Well this is interesting. Seems that the Netherlands can stand on their own. Who knew?

The Netherlands has committed $10 million for an initiative to replace funding for abortion services in developing countries that will be lost due to U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on financing foreign groups that provide abortions.

Trump reinstated a policy on Monday requiring overseas organizations that receive U.S. family-planning funds to certify they do not perform abortions or provide abortion advice as a method of family planning.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dutch-commit ... tml?ref=gs

Excellent!

Now, maybe they can pay for their own defense.

[Pwns]

http://dailyeb.com/index.php/2017/01/28 ... p-resigns/

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[Ivytalk]

Well this is interesting. Seems that the Netherlands can stand on their own. Who knew?



https://www.yahoo.com/news/dutch-commit ... tml?ref=gs

Excellent!

Now, maybe they can pay for their own defense.

Since when did you give a shyt about abortion?

And lay off the Dutch!

[CAA Flagship]

Excellent!

Now, maybe they can pay for their own defense.

Since when did you give a shyt about abortion?

And lay off the Dutch!

Forget about the cause. Focus on the fact that they can pay for their own shit once you stop paying them.

[YoUDeeMan]

Since when did you give a shyt about abortion?

And lay off the Dutch!

Forget about the cause. Focus on the fact that they can pay for their own shit once you stop paying them.

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Ivy...you are less than a month into retirement and already getting slow.

[HI54UNI]

http://dailyeb.com/index.php/2017/01/28 ... p-resigns/

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Holy fucking delusional Batman!

[Ivytalk]

Forget about the cause. Focus on the fact that they can pay for their own **** once you stop paying them.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!!

Ivy...you are less than a month into retirement and already getting slow.

It's hard to be as consistently brilliant as you.