Bless their hearts

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Former U.S. Army First Sergeant Nelson Feliz, Sr. was among those receiving a termination email.

“We’re mistreated,” Feliz told Channel 2′s Richard Elliot. “We’ve been betrayed.”

The “Notice of Termination” email from the VA to Feliz stated, “The agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest.”

“I was a first sergeant. My job was to take care of troops, making sure they were paid, fed, and slept. Why is this happening to us? I’ve been here too long for this to be happening,” Feliz said.

Feliz said he’s been a VA employee for more than 12 years but just started in a new position in which he’s still in his probationary period, the layoff selected probationary employees for termination.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-ve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/ar-AA1z5cdF

[jon-nyc]

Imagine the salt in the wound - reading the transparent lie that you’re being let go for performance reasons.

[kluurs]

With a little modification of that old saw about taxes to "don't fire you, don't fire me, just fire that guy behind the tree."

[Horace]

Well, I knowingly support the tribe that seems dead set against remote work.

[jon-nyc]

What does that have to do with this? These guys were let go because they were probationary despite their decade+ of experience.

VA hospitals are all over the country. USDA employees are everywhere there are plants to inspect.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc I'm sure you intended a granular point that my post has nothing to do with. Please pardon me if I don't work too hard to discover the specifics of that granular point. My point is that sometimes, people support a political side that in certain specific ways might work directly against them.

[jon-nyc]

Ah, ok fair enough.

[jon-nyc]

The second guy - from the VA. If you read the whole article he was set to retire in 2027 and had filed the paperwork. Now he’s out before he put in his 20.

[Jolly]

When you sit this many people in the street, you're going to have some sad stories.

There's no way around it.

[jon-nyc]

But maybe publicizing a few will tamper down the glee with which the maga right has greeted these individual job losses. At the end of the day all these people did was apply for a decent job.

Agreeing with the cuts is one thing, celebrating the tragedies the individuals are going through (let me know if you’d like receipts, but I’m sure everyone here has seen it) quite another.

[Jolly]

Somebody has do it. You know it. I know it. It's not gonna be pretty and it's going to hurt.

Yet, if we do nothing, you'll be the first to point fingers.

Time to cut the baby in half. Make a decision.

[Mik]

Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Bless their hearts:

Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.

Absolutely.

We got here through massive political pandering and MMT.

[jon-nyc]

MMT never made it out of a third tier economics program in New England.

[jon-nyc]

It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:

MMT never made it out of a third tier economics program in New England.

Well, sure seems like we've been printing money out of thin air to satisfy debt.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:

It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.

You can piss in your pants, too, if you want a warm , fuzzy feeling. Doesn't pay off a damn thing.

[jon-nyc]

Look at that lovely trajectory Bill and Newt handed your boy W.

[Copper]

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