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    fl57caveman

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    Good for Trump. I do wish he would nominate a new, competent head of the VA. That might go a long way to starting to resolve the problems.
     

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    be better off actually picking vets and giving checks out...good press...and the bcrats don't get to dip into it

    At least he is donating his salary regardless of how much of it actually trickles down where it is most needed! How much of your salary did you donate to the Department Of Verteran Affairs? I have not because I can not spare the extra funds.
     
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    To the Department of Veterans Affairs. How many other presidents have done this? I would be willing to guess that monkey butt O never did!
    http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...erly-salary-to-department-of-veterans-affairs

    I'm sure he'll recoup his salary and more from the profits from his Mar-a-largo resort. How much does the US Gov't pay to houses/feed his entourage when he travels there weekly. President Obama didn't have that luxury.

    "A trip to Mar-a-Lago costs taxpayers approximately $3.6 million, according to a Government Accountability Office report,"
     
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    Pres O had plenty of those travel luxuries on taxpayer dollars. It would be nice if the presidents had a limited travel budget just like other govt employees.
     

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    1. I'll believe it when I see the cancelled check. Donald lies all the time about giving money to people.

    2. The amount supposedly given, $100,000, is less then the amount he paid to the porn star he rawdogged as hush money. In my view anyways, this shows where the Department of Veterans Affairs fits into his financial priorities.

    3. Simple math shows that with a $198.6 billion budget, the alleged amount given will fund the VA for slightly under 16 seconds.

    4. We still dont even have a VA secretary. Donald Trump is the only person on earth that can nominate one, after he alone fired the last one. Yet, hes been out golfing at least 4 times and held two campaign rallies, but hasn't been bothered to nominate anyone to run the VA for the last three weeks (after his last nominee turned out to be less then only.the.best.people). He has just now today announced he will nominate the acting VA secretary, which does not at all suggest a long and exhaustive nationwide search for the best qualified candidate. Note: "Will nominate", not "has nominated".

    5. $100,000 is nothing to a guy that just took in $500 million from China Trump project in Indonesia gets Chinese government partner for in return, making it a national priority for the USA to create jobs for ZTE, a Chinese company that was sanctioned by the United States for violating international sanctions against both Iran and North Korea, and then lying about it.

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    Looks to me that creating jobs in China for a company currently under US sanctions is more of a priority for him. Why isn't he announcing a jobs initiative for veterans instead of a jobs initiative for chinese citizens?

    6. As a 20 year-veteran, and user of a VA services, I would be more impressed if instead of tying to get a good headline, the Trump administration would put some serious work into this problem:

    Kushner-backed health care project gets ‘devastating’ review

    The first stage of a multibillion-dollar military-VA digital health program championed by Jared Kushner has been riddled with problems so severe they could have led to patient deaths, according to a report obtained by POLITICO.

    The April 30 report expands upon the findings of a March POLITICO story in which doctors and IT specialists expressed alarm about the software system, describing how clinicians at one of four pilot centers, Naval Station Bremerton, quit because they were terrified they might hurt patients, or even kill them.

    Lastly, I would ask that other members respond appropriately. There is no need to resort to the tactics that have been getting so many thread locked lately. Please demonstrate that we can discuss things as adults.
     

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    Pres O had plenty of those travel luxuries on taxpayer dollars. It would be nice if the presidents had a limited travel budget just like other govt employees.

    Incorrect...... that is a false equivalency. Trump exceeded President Obama's 8 years vacations spending within 6 months of being in office. President Obama traveled to vacation in Hawaii once a year over Christmas. While I understand the President will travel to conduct the nations business, I truly feel there would be mass hysteria if any previous president had traveled to his own resort weekly and the taxpayers picked up the 3 million dollar tab which goes in-part back to that president. His giving up his salary is peanuts to the profit he is making and we all know that. His donation is a business expense.
     

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    How about $100 million to Africa, for a single trip? No sir, that's not the nation's business. That's a huge vacation with a massive enturage. Complete waste of my money. Where is the return on investment for that $100 Mil? There certainly is an equivalence.
     

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    How about $100 million to Africa, for a single trip? No sir, that's not the nation's business. That's a huge vacation with a massive enturage. Complete waste of my money. Where is the return on investment for that $100 Mil? There certainly is an equivalence.

    Friend, Obama took three trips to seven African countries. That's seven out of 58 countries he visited as president through both terms. President Bill Clinton visited 10 African countries, and George W. Bush visited 11. Bush visited once with his wife and two daughters, and another time just with his wife. Your argument is based on an internet hoax circulating on right wing websites to stoke resentment and garner acceptance of Trump's junkets.
     

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    No sir. His trips were well documented and covered by the news while he was in office. Has nothing to do with Trump. If I recall correctly, Obama was enjoying one of his trips at the same time we had to shut down part of the government. None of the presidents should get a free pass to spend money on jet setting, to inlcude Obama. The presidents should have some accountability, just like other government employees.
     

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    So this guy Wilkie...is currently the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness......and was made in addition to that, acting secretary of the VA (how does someone do both jobs at the same time?) but that's currently being challenged in a U.S. District Court lawsuit as violations of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 and the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. AND Trump didnt discuss the appointment with him beforehand, he just **surprised** everyone at a summit on prison reform....I mean, what if he doesnt even want the job?

    but....

    Before President Trump made his surprise announcement that Robert Wilkie would be his pick to run the government's second-largest agency, Trump consulted two of his key advisers on Veterans Affairs: Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter and Fox and Friends host Pete Hegseth

    Yes, Im sorry, the gift if there is one, might be nice, but this new appointment doesn't seem especially well thought out to me:

    Disabled American Veterans also questioned Wilkie’s experience, stating he “has no background in health care and no apparent experience working in or with the department.”
     

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    Or how about obama’s golf trip in Hawaii when he made a couple cancel their wedding and change the date so he could play golf. The groom was a Marine. Although I hear he did call the couple and apologize after the fact
     

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    Or how about obama’s golf trip in Hawaii when he made a couple cancel their wedding and change the date so he could play golf. The groom was a Marine. Although I hear he did call the couple and apologize after the fact

    Yes, in my opinion that was wrong regardless of which president was involved in that incident.
     

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    He doesn’t have too, he pays his taxes like the rest of us.

    Tax payers have their taxes sent to where ever the government decides it sent to. They have no choice of where it is sent or decision on what it is used to pay for. No one makes donations to any veteran supported program because they have to! They do it because they WANT to and have the MEANS to do it. I have the WANT to, I just dont have the MEANS to do so. :wink: And I would most definitely do so if I could!
     
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    Incorrect...... that is a false equivalency. Trump exceeded President Obama's 8 years vacations spending within 6 months of being in office. President Obama traveled to vacation in Hawaii once a year over Christmas. While I understand the President will travel to conduct the nations business, I truly feel there would be mass hysteria if any previous president had traveled to his own resort weekly and the taxpayers picked up the 3 million dollar tab which goes in-part back to that president. His giving up his salary is peanuts to the profit he is making and we all know that. His donation is a business expense.


    I call total BS...obamas wife took many trips with kids and mom, that had no official business, not to mention Hawaii vacations..they used us as a travel agency...with security
     
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