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question first thank you thank you for your service out of service m so the VA in terms of how are we going to fix the VA well well thank you for your service well a couple things I got someone someone told me uh yesterday that they're thinking about using VA for illegal aliens are you kidding me we will never allow that to happen don't worry about

that but here's the thing the the VA is a big bureaucracy okay and I think veterans get caught up in red tape I mean I remember when I left active duty I got a packet of okay here's all I couldn't understand it uh it's very difficult I mean and and I think a lot of veterans just don't know where to go for help and services so

there's a couple things one uh you know we've had some some people working in the VA who really let veterans down I'm going to fire those people uh we're not just going to let them shuffle them around to different parts of the VA we're not going to do that but the other thing we're going to do is just recognize that you know the thing about this

country in spite of all the problems uh you have a a deep I think abiding appreciation uh for people that have served in uniform and you see that in veterans groups that we have in Charities and businesses uh philanthropists even individual volunteers we need to harness all that on behalf of the veterans and so I want the VA yes if they can help on all this

whatever veterans are entitled to we got to get that done better but uh we also want the VA to help link veterans to all these resources that are available in society so for example we have a model in Florida that we'll use where people go in we started it with welfare benefits so they go in and we've created something called the care portal so it allows

Charities churches businesses individual volunteers to plug into the portal so you have somebody maybe you have a mother who got evicted from an apartment and she's got uh two young kids well that'll get put in and yes she's eligible for some government benefits but the minute that that goes out to The Community you then have somebody that comes that helps and we can get them on

a pathway to self-sufficiency so I think something similar for the VA have a portal we have all these veterans veteran Charities I mean that do mental health that do service dogs I mean you name it there's a lot of good work being done so let's have them plugged in let's have businesses plugged in a lot lot of businesses will contribute and it could be done locally

what I just want to make sure you're okay can I take you out to lunch and listen and then maybe they just talk for an hour that could be the difference between a veteran committing suicide side or not just the fact that somebody cares so we have resources in this Society we got to do a better job of linking the veteran to those resources we're going

to make sure that that's the type of framework we have in the VA uh so that veterans are taken care of and as the only Veteran running for president as the first person elected president since 1988 I would be who served in a foreign war uh veterans issues are going to be a top priority for me I understand it's important I understand particularly in my generation

post 911 uh we've got a lot of stuff that we still have to deal with with the vet suicide uh the post-traumatic stress all this is very important so it'll have my time and attention and we're going to approach this I think in a way that's going to be much more effective before I leave um I know we're now getting now we're uh less than a

month away from from the New Hampshire primary we're going to have the Iowa caucus the week before um and we're going to you're going to see great things out of Iowa for us there uh then then we're going to storm in New Hampshire and this will be the first in the nation primary uh and I'm asking for your vote um on that uh I'll be the

candidate and I'll be the president that will work for you um you I don't care what what what the donor say I'm not concerned about any of my personal issues I'm not running you know to exact any type of Revenge about me uh I'm running because I want to help you I want to help your family and I want to turn this country around and stop

the decline that we're seeing so you'll get a president who will be energetic you'll get a president who will actually get these things done um you'll be you get a president that will keep his word when he promises you he's done something I will be the one to deliver thank you all God bless