I want you to see how filthy and disgusting this is.
What Elon Musk and Doge and Trump have done is absolutely
unthinkable. I want you to listen to this
clip. I'm Eric Rodriguez.
I'm a disabled Iraq War veteran. Take your time.
Take your time, man. A VA worker, a proud SEIU union
stored representing Illinois. I proudly serve my concert now.
I proudly serve my fellow veterans.
All right, so that's a veteran who served this country.
They should be treated well by the government, the people that
they fought for, the people that they gave up their lives for and
gave up their families for. They should be treated well,
right? But right now, the Trump
administration is coming to cut the VA front lane workers and
let billionaires steal our healthcare.
You can't get the VA, man. That's a lifeline for so many
people. Not just with healthcare, but
mental healthcare. You can't do it.
Veterans, we're under attack. Last week, 1400 workers got
fired illegally. 22 of them were my colleagues at the VA at Heinz
VA Hospital. Some of them didn't even get a
real notice. You got to give them a notice,
you got to give them a little bit of notice, give them a
chance to regroup and get their lives back because you can't
just fire somebody. That doesn't make any sense,
Especially a veteran or numerous veterans, 1000 veterans.
That's dirty. That's disgusting.
All we got was this, an e-mail with access where the gates
should be a done day. So an anonymous e-mail with no
date. Scum.
That is scummy. I've been in situations like
this before where they do these kind of things and I know those
people in their scumbags. Poor guy.
That's how little they think of people and are veterans in this
country. Yep, that.
Serve our country. They're slashing staff, crushing
unions, and selling out the VA. For what?
Poor guy. So millionaires can make more
money while veterans sit out of the wait list.
Who? Worse?
They'll get no treatment. Listen my one of my relatives is
a veteran and they were on wait lists for procedures for months
because the VAS are so understaffed and there's so
little of them. They got to treat the veterans
better. You know this.
I don't know why they're firing people from the VA, the people
that are helping other veterans, That's scum.
Our president was asleep by Musk was at the wheel.
Do you know what happens to a service manager when they fall
asleep when they're on duty? Bad things.
Veterans don't trust him. He's not one of us.
He's not, he never. He's not a veteran, either of
them. We're not about to sit back and
take the SEIU. We're fighting back.
That's important. They're fighting back.
They know how to fight. Don't mess with them, dude.
We're. Organizing and we're taking.
Action. That's what they should do.
We're not going to back down on the South Side of Chicago.
We're standing up business. It's time for you to do the
same. We've done our duty.
They've. Done their duty, they should be
taken care of. 100% whatever they need they should be taken
care of no questions asked. That's such a scummy thing to
do. Now we're asking the
administration and Republicans to do theirs.
You serve this country, you know how to take it.
Take the fight to them. They've got to, they've got to
fight them. They've got to fight them in
court, they have to fight them and they have to fight for their
jobs back. And they also have to fight so
the Viva can be funded properly so all of these veterans can get
the care that's necessary. Because when you come back from
serving, if you're not the same person, you're a changed person
and you need help sometimes. And these people might need
help. And now there's 1400 or more
employees at the VA that are gone that can't help people.
And that's just a scumbag move, man.
What a loser. And we know how to win.
Thank you all. Right.
So I think I know what you thinking right now.
This guy's going through a lot and of course he should fight
back. They should all fight back.
They should lawyer up and do whatever they can to fight this
as fast as possible. Get their jobs back, get their
livelihoods back. It's not like these people don't
have families. They have families, they have
kids, they have mortgage, they have car payments, they have
insurance payments, All those things that we're taken care of
because of the job that they had at the VA that's gone.
What are they going to do? They're going to go for
unemployment for a little while. Yeah, sure, they can get
unemployment, but that only lasts for so long and it's not a
lot of money. I mean, think about if you have
a mortgage payment right now, how much money is that?
Also add on to that your vehicle note, your insurance.
Food is super expensive right now.
It's just it's insurmountable. They should not have done this.
This is a scumbag move and they should not have cut the VA no
matter what doge thinks. I mean I I don't, I don't care
about how effective they think they are coming at the VA with a
chainsaw. You don't touch the VA.
You don't touch Social Security. Those are two things that you
don't touch, especially the VA. Don't mess with the people that
allow you to be free in this country.
Do not do that. This guy's got a point when he
was talking about he was holding up his paper and it's just a
faceless number, right? This is he's not a person.
According to Doge and according to Elon Musk, and according to
those that have fired him, he's not a person.
He got fired because he was excess.
It's the number, just a number. He doesn't want to be a number.
He wants to be a person again. He's not the military anymore.
He's part of the group of veterans that come back from
serving to keep you and me free. And this guy, all he wants is to
be treated as equal as everybody else doesn't just want to be
fired by some nameless, faceless bureaucrat or from doge.
Who would want that? This poor guy, man, 1400 work
has got fired. That's so many people and what
they don't realize, and I think they do realize this and This is
why Trump has been hitting at a recession recently.
Is it all these people that they fire, they don't have the money
to spend in the economy because the money that they would put
into the economy would pay taxes and would pay for goods and
services. That money is in their pockets
now, so it's not being given to other people so they can give to
other people and keep the economy propped up.
That's not happening anymore because not just 1400 VA
workers, but thousands of workers across South America,
government workers, government, federal employees are being let
go by DOGE. So these people have a right.
Eric has it right here. They're going to fight back.
We should all fight back. We should all tell them what we
think because this is a scumbag move and they should have never
messed with veterans. If you agree with me, leave it
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everybody and I will see you in the next one.