New VA secretary, big talk but can we believe him?

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**redleger**

http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/shulkin-hegseth-fox-interview-accountability?utm_content=buffer40f24&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

So I watched an interview with Secretary Shulkin and I gotta say I like what I hear, but can we believe him. I mean you have an entire generation of men and women who have been let down again and again. I myself enter this system in just over a month, and the stories have me terrified. So can we believe him? Can he even do it even if he is 100 percent serious? What have been your experiences in the VA and are they as bad on the whole as some of the stories we hear reported?

**Frazzled**

redleger wrote:
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/shulkin-hegseth-fox-interview-accountability?utm_content=buffer40f24&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

So I watched an interview with Secretary Shulkin and I gotta say I like what I hear, but can we believe him. I mean you have an entire generation of men and women who have been let down again and again. I myself enter this system in just over a month, and the stories have me terrified. So can we believe him? Can he even do it even if he is 100 percent serious? What have been your experiences in the VA and are they as bad on the whole as some of the stories we hear reported?

Why would you believe him? Talk is cheap.

**redleger**

Frazzled wrote:
redleger wrote:
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/shulkin-hegseth-fox-interview-accountability?utm_content=buffer40f24&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

So I watched an interview with Secretary Shulkin and I gotta say I like what I hear, but can we believe him. I mean you have an entire generation of men and women who have been let down again and again. I myself enter this system in just over a month, and the stories have me terrified. So can we believe him? Can he even do it even if he is 100 percent serious? What have been your experiences in the VA and are they as bad on the whole as some of the stories we hear reported?

Why would you believe him? Talk is cheap.

I guess that is the quesiton, however say what you want about our president, some of his cabinet members have been spot on. Mad Dog has shown he is not a yes man, so that is why I ask the question.

**Frazzled**

Sorry that may have come off as harsh on my part.

We'll see how he does but "trust but verify," is always the prudent course.