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 in a comment. If you don't agree with me, leave it in the comments. Also, if you like this video, give it a like. I got to ask. I'm on YouTube, so thanks for watching. Let me know what you think. I want to have an open discussion. It's free speech here, so leave
it down in the comments. All right, take care of everybody and I will see you in the next one.