VA reductions will harm veterans and their care

Attention veterans — VFW, VVA, DAV, AL, MCL, MOPH, Iraq/Afghanistan, etc. — all veterans organizations need to stand up to Trump, Musk, Vance, etc., and fight against this major reduction of Veterans Administration employees.

First it was 1,000, then another 1,400, and now additional 70,000 to 80,000 employees of the VA are/have been eliminated. Our Spokane VA has been short-staffed for years. Now it will take forever to get an appointment, check on benefits eligibility, have claims adjudicated, dental, optical, etc. Donald Trump and his neo-Nazis, Musk, Vance, and Bannon, etc., don’t care about veterans, matter of fact, by reducing VA employees and availability it appears they want us old vets to just die off, and the young vets to die sooner than later so they can show how much money they are saving the country. Ever seen the movie “Article 99”? We’re going back to the '60s for veteran care.

Donald Trump doesn’t give a darn about America. All he cares about is how much money and power he can get, and how often his face is shown in public. He wants to be king, do not let him have the 22nd Amendment changed. He is destroying our country, economy and strategic alliances with other nations. He wants to be an isolationist? Lock yourself in Mar-a-Lago and leave the rest of the country alone.

Trump, Musk, Vance and company are destroying the United States of America with massive elimination of jobs in departments that actually bring money into our government. Chaos is what they have produced. Recession.

By the way, winning an election by 1.6% is not an overwhelming mandate of the people. Enough of your lies, innuendos, and false fabrications, oh I must have forgotten, that’s how you got elected. 

MICHAEL HARMELIN

Sandpoint