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angrychair

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9. PATCO is not this situation

Thu Aug 7, 2025, 10:45 AM

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Over 400,000 people work just for the VA. If even half to two thirds strike or hopefully more, most are medical professionals that do not have any replacement for what they do. None. Even if you mobilized the military medical core it would still be impossible and would dramatically impact military readiness.

I know a lot of people think crazy stuff like "they will just fire everyone" that is likely not legal and no matter what the rhetoric is, impossible to do for a host of reasons.

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