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Not much of a mathematician but looking at 10 year graph it seems that the vast majority of time was spent with a NAV of 6 or more. It certainly appears that since the huge dip of 6 months or so ago we have been on a steady trajectory back to that long term trend line. Reversion to the mean if you will. Thus, if you are one of the lucky ones to have gotten into this fund in the low or mid 4s or even more fortunate enough in the high 3s then waiting patiently for NAV of 6 or even more is a smart move.(Disclosure; bought about half at 4.12 and half at about 4.91) At that point one would need to decide where if anyplace a better and more secure yield would be available. My financial planner thinks I should sell some in that this fund now represents about 12-13% of my total portfolio but I am feeling bold and lucky and besides I don't want to sell just yet and incur the small but annoying 1% penalty. I'm not that clever but it sure seems likely that a NAV of 6 is coming over the next 6 months. All intelligent comments and critiques welcome. GLL
With a very steady dividend and compounding it has been a bit of a surrogate for equity advances: about 27% YTD. getting back to 6, maybe. What will happen to high yield when treasury raises rates?
I don't think junk always follows the inverse relationship between rates and bond prices. When rates went to zero junk prices actually fell. Shouldn't they have gone up? In any case I don't think you will have to worry about a rate increase for some time. The FED is looking at the unemployment rate. Rising rates would certainly quash any recovery that most analysts say we are now in. Also,we have elections in 2010. If unemployment is still high woe be it to the Dems. Bernanke won't raise rates with Obama just having appointed him and still facing confirmation from the Senate.
That depends by how much they go up, what happens to the spread. Also, onecna make the case that fed money is not risk free. Look into the future, considering the money they are spending, and default can be reality. I contend, gov debt is not risk free now and getting riskier by the second. This is not good but could push the spread closer than anyone would think. We now have a president that is against us and wants the system to overload a break so we have the level of life as in Africa or North Korea.
I wouldn't worry too much about VWEHX comprising 12% to 13% of your portfolio(mine is 20%)PROVIDED there is little chance you might need the money within the next 5 years. I am the same age as you (year older actually)and a conservative investor. This fund has 321 individual bonds, so the risk is very spread.
However, if your VWEHX allocation is money you might possibly need sometime in the next 5 years then you might want to reconsider if it should be in VWEHX at all, just like the stock market, because of a chance you might need it the most when the NAV is way down like last December. Just my opinion but if your investment advisor is not saying this then he should be.
PS: I hope you are right about a NAV of $6, but I personally don't think VWEHX will make it back to $6. Just my opinion, but if you look at its chart you will see what I mean. It seldom recovers fully after a steep drop. When it dropped to below $4 I bought some more and I figured its maximum upside would be $5.25 to $5.50. However, I also thought it would take a year and a half to do this, and it happened sooner. So, what do I know?
Ken, I made my first buy at 5.50 and was happy to get it there. Of course i rode it to 3.90 and wasn't experienced enough to buy more there, but i bought more as it went higher and am quite happy. It is one of my best performers YTD. Thanks for all your excellent posts. Brooks
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For example to todays blog he writes about bonds and a lot of other things. I am not going to re-write all of his comments today, but here is a sample:
9/22/09: "How long can the Fed continue to keep up the liquidity flood? They can do it until the bond market says 'they can't.'" So we watch the bond market like a hawk watches a field mouse.
"If there's any trouble ahead, the bond market should spot it first, and the bonds, with Fed help, have been holding up remarkably well-- so far. Below we see a daily chart of the bellwether 10-year T-note with my blue trendline depicting support"( $UST @ stockcharts. com). ... if 118 is violated, the T-note could be in the process of topping.
You should look for a new financial advisor. Paying the 1% redemption fee is foolish.


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Adapted from Albert Outler's 4-volume text The Works of John Wesley, this anthology of 50 of Wesley's finest sermons are presented in an affordable, convenient paperback. Arranged chronologically with introductory commentary by Richard Heitzenrater.
Adapted from Albert Outler's 4-volume text The Works of John Wesley, this anthology of 50 of Wesley's finest sermons are presented in an affordable, convenient paperback. Arranged chronologically with introductory commentary by Richard Heitzenrater.
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The Image of God (1730),
The Circumcision of the Heart (1733),
The One Thing Needful (1734),
Salvation by Faith (1738),
Free Grace (1739),
The Almost Christian (1741),
Christian Perfection (1741),
'Awake, Thou That Sleepest' (1742),
Scriptural Christianity (1744),
Justification by Faith (1746),
The Way to the Kingdom (1746),
The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption (1746),
The Witness of the Spirit, I (1746),
The Means of Grace (1746),
The Marks of the New Birth (1748),
The Great Privilege of those that are Born of God (1748),
Upon our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, IV (1748),
Upon our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, V (1748),
Upon our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, VI (1748),
Upon our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, VIII (1748),
The Original, Nature, Properties, and Use of the Law (1750),
The Law Established through Faith, I (1750),
The Law Established through Faith, II (1750),
A Caution against Bigotry (1750),
Catholic Spirit (1750),
The Great Assize (1758),
Original Sin (1759),
The New Birth (1760),
The Use of Money (1760),
On Sin in Believers (1763),
The Scripture Way of Salvation (1765),
The Lord Our Righteousness (1765),
The Witness of the Spirit, II (1767),
The Repentance of Believers (1767),
The Good Steward (1768),
Spiritual Worship (1780),
The End of Christ's Coming (1781),
The Danger of Riches (1781),
On Zeal (1781),
God's Love to Fallen Man (1782),
On Working Out Our Own Salvation (1785),
The New Creation (1785),
The Duty of Constant Communion (1787),
The More Excellent Way (1787),
On the Omnipresence of God (1788),
The Unity of the Divine Being (1789),
Prophets and Priests (1789),
Causes of the Inefficacy of Christianity (1789),
On the Wedding Garment (1790),
On Living without God (1790),
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The Works of John Wesley are important not only to Christian history but also to history in general. Up until recently it has been difficult for the average person to have access to his writings. The multi-volume collection of his works is expensive and time-consuming to read all the way through. Abingdon also publishes his journals and other writings in the same paperback format as this book, making it more accessible. This anthology, however, is unique in that it compiles what is perhaps the most relevant writing Wesley did, namely the written version of the sermons he preached. Wesley stated that he lived 'by preaching.' This book is that which he lived by in written form. For historical interest, the journals are more important. Yet for knowledge of Wesley's thought and beliefs this book is the most valuable. It contains, not ALL of his sermons, but the most important ones both in terms of subject matter and chronological significance throughout his long and complex life. These sermons were not the actual word-for-word sermons he preached but rather the written exposition of the topic he addressed or the issue he dealt with in the pulpit, intended for publication to be read. For the layman, the average Christian reader with limited time and resources, this book will familiarize you with John Wesley in his own words. I have read Wesley's journals and many of his other works, as well as several biographies, but this book was my first time reading John Wesley, and remains the best in my opinion. The sermons were carefully selected by Outler to give a well-rounded introduction to John Wesley's theology and personal beliefs based on his understanding of the Scriptures. If anyone wants to know John Wesley, this book, and perhaps a biography such as the ones written by John Pollock or John Telford, would be enough to provide a wealth of information. If you have read Benson Bobrick's Wide As the Waters, you will find John Wesley to be, as I have heard him sometimes called, the 'warmth to wide waters.' The 'wide waters' of the Bible had been restored to the church in England by Wesley's time, but cold, dead orthodoxy had taken hold. Wesley restored religion to the heart, after he himself found his own 'heart strangely warmed' when he began to trust in Christ alone for salvation at Aldersgate in 1738. Arguably, no man other than Martin Luther was more vital to restoring the Christian faith and promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ. Read, enjoy and be transformed by this man's message---still vital today.


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A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches that "healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian" men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called "White Male Club."
Simply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege, whereas a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned disadvantages of social privilege, reads a statement in the manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).
Im participating in teaching things that are not true, the instructor told me. He asked not to be identified because he feared reprisals.
I should not be in a position to do that, he said. It violates Constitutional principles, but it also violates my conscience. And Im not going to do it not going to do it.
DEOMI instructors were also responsible for briefings at bases around the country that falsely labeled evangelical Christians, Catholics and a number of high-profile Christian ministries as domestic hate groups.
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Extending the rot into the military.
They are literally getting ready to kill us, and we're standing by letting it happen. You can't make this stuff up.
Seriously, list these tangible advantages that can be attributed to skin color, gender, orientation and religion.
It can't be done...
However, it's pretty easy to point out the rules, laws, and regulations that give anyone of "opposite" attributes distinct and codified advantages.
Yeah, just turn it all over to the girls, fags and whatevers.
Drive the [conservative] males out of the armed services, denigrate them and make them menials. Create a two tiered service system of privileged and beholden homosexuals and women.
Ah yes I smell Rome burning.
The worst nightmare is being forged: some thought the army would take sides, just sure they would side with the Constitution and with Patriotism...not any more.
Ave, Imperator.
It's definitely obama's military.
And whatinhell did you expect after electing the current senior crowd in DC twice?
It's become another gubbamint job program.
"healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian" men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called "White Male Club."
If they really believe that then let them put their money where there mouth is with regards to combat.
Let's take the white men our and subsitute in girls weighing 100 pounds.
Ooops. I forgot. They're doing that already. Along with the homos..
197 high-ranking officers have been purged by this administration.
Definitely beans and ammo (not necessarily in that order) time. And be ready to conceal your firearms in case of an attempt at confiscation. That is also being warned about by serving officers and NCOs.
And the IRS will report who you donate to.
Better not be that evil AFA.
This isn't necessarily something new. The U.S. Army had mandatory "race relations" training for personnel as far back as the 1970's, and some of it was politically-correct B.S.
I attended one such mandatory training session in 1974. The "instructor" was a black enlisted man who opened the session by declaring that white men were responsible for all of the problems in the world. The training was intended to improve race relations, but it actually made things worse. At least one soldier was "excused" from my mandatory class after repeatedly challenging (in a respectful way) the instructor's preposterous claims.
"whereas a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned disadvantages of social privilege, reads a statement in the manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI)."
Quit complaining. She's got it made compared to a black, female, Puerto Rican, lesbian, Voodooist, with hives, hammer toes, a limp, and a lisp.
Oh, the Huge Manatee.
Here's to hoping my understanding of eschatology is correct.
He can "come on the scene" after we get yanked outa here.
600 pages? What is this, a new secret weapon? Force the enemy to read it and his brain will rot out?
And you had to bring large sea mammals into the discussion as well?
The list, Ping
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When am I ever going to get to experience these so-called unfair advantages? I'm 56. I can't wait forever.
They are never going to stop are they? When will we put or foot down and stop this purge of white Christians?. It is way overdue.
So the DoD is trying to say making bad decisions shouldn't result in bad consequences?
White males specifically but whites in general, Western culture and Christianity, not necessarily in that order, are under attack.
They will not stop unless or until whites stand up as whites and say no...or not.
Aww hell, I remember hearing this pap from our base EEO idiots back in the early 2000's, it didn't take a genius to "read between the lines" of what they were saying then.
I got something similar in 1973-76. The classes fostered hatred rather than understanding.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....Manatees are fresh water animals....
Just sayin'.......
The objective of the military is to KILL PEOPLE AND BREAK THINGS!
There is no such thing as "unfair advantage"!!!!!
Oops...My bad...They are BOTH frsh and saltwater Manatees....
I wasn't going to argue, but... I thought so.
And why the hell would we even want a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health in our military to begin with?
Back in the late 60's while working for a defense contractor, they were ordered by the Federal government to increase their hiring of blacks with criminal records.
I had to obtain a security clearance so given our president could not obtain one I can only conclude that the federal government does not need security clearances from blacks.
Yes, we do have an inherent advantage.
We're smarter, we get up in the morning, and we work.
No problem. Just make up an entire unit of them, and send them to the next Korengal valley or Fallujah. Equal opportunity.
We had that in the Navy in 1973. They were called "Upwards" seminars. They set back race relations too.
The real agenda was to get even. It was about spite and revenge. They didn't really want improved relations.
Why would you want to conceal them? That would be advisable if there were concrete plans to attack later, but failing that, it seems to me that the arms are useless unless you are willing to use them.
What say you?
where to begin -as a vet of Air Force who remembers a squadron that did not have a healthy mix of NCO of every background? What about officers - geez 10 years ago the Head of Joint Chiefs was black - isn't it the military that is truly the most integrated part of the work world?
"And why the hell would we even want a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health in our military to begin with?"
To take on the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans in hand-to-hand combat!
President Cruz has his work cut out for him.
Go Ted!
The guy just named two of the three reasons why officers are being drummed out.
1. will not promote faggotry.
2. will not follow illegal orders (ie firing on us civilians, posse comitatus)
3. will not persecute Christians under their command
Homos (men and women) who have been taught to hate 'breeders' will fire on breeders without a problem. Most already have issues with their breeder parents and therefore a general distaste for straights, in general.
Non-white troops being taught what they are taught are being conditioned to believe only whites are racist and they are not, and they will have no problem mowing down white us civilians fighting off hordes of black flash mobs in urban areas going after them.
Non-christian troops will have no problem firing on God-fearing Christians if given the order, after what they are being taught. Chrstians persecute them therefore we should purge them out and the orders to do so will be taken gladly.
Not sure.
THese others have found they can get paid for doing nothing, they actually get money out of the paychecks of people who work. And they have a whole system of people at multiple levels of government working on their behalf to pay them in perpetuity.
Not entirely stupid.
Exactly! This isn't some little annoyance that we roll our eyes at. This is serious stuff. They're stirring up hatred of whites, heterosexuals, and Christians, especially the males. Soon it will be justifiable to do anything to us. If this is what it's like now, what will it be like when we're a minority? This has to stop NOW. We have to make it stop NOW.
Codifying the absolute opposite of the constitution.
No! I am preparing.
I too graduated DEOMI 1984, I as well needed remedial counseling, which also consisted of an extremely harsh written reprimand, I never heard such whining and crying in my life, as what went on in small group, of course not graduating DEOMI, for any reason other than academic was an absolute career killer. I developed good acting skills that got me through the next three years.
The reprimand was excluded from my records upon graduation, as they promised.
The word "Perverted" doesn't do justice to this one.
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This debut by a former journalist at the Daily Telegraph of London chronicles the author's love-hate relationship with the Harvard Business School, where he spent two years getting his M.B.A. Beginning with a confessional account of his disillusionment with journalism and conflicted desire to make money, Broughton provides an account of his experiences in and out of the classroom as he struggles to survive the academic rigor and find a suitably principled yet lucrative path. Simultaneously repelled by his aggressive fellow capitalists in training—their stress-fueled partying and obsession with wealth—and dazzled by his classes, visiting professors and the surprising beauty of business concepts, Broughton vacillates between cautious critique and faint praise. Although cleverly narrated and marked by a professional journalist's polish and remarkable attention to detail, this book flounders; it provides neither enough color nor damning dirt on the school to entertain in the manner of true tell-alls. The true heart of the story is less b-school confidential than a memoir of Broughton's quest to understand the business world and find his place in it. (Aug.)
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What the book is instead is a rather touching introspective memoir on Philip's personal experience at HBS as an outsider - someone who, because of his age, career background, nationality, but most of all personality did not fit into the traditional HBS mold. Despite that, the reader comes away clear on the fact that Philip learned a great deal from HBS, respects its educational method tremendously, made some very good friends, and overall came away a bigger person after it. I want to elaborate on that last point - Philip was already a fully formed individual before coming to HBS: a father, a husband, a successful journalist, a well-traveled man. To feel growth after HBS, where the average age is ~5 years younger and the average experience is much more junior is a BIG DEAL.
The book really has two elements to it. One is a witty description of the HBS stereotypes, fun stories about interactions, and, ultimately, a fascinating tale of what it's like to be immersed into the HBS experience. The second (one that I didn't find as exciting having gone there) is a reasonably in-depth description of the cases and educational method. The first element is a joy to read and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. Moreover, it's quite an experience to observe Philip's thought process and see how life touches him. Highlights include getting stuck in a white wedding limo in the parking lot at the Google headquarters and frantically taking notes on a loose-leaf sheet of paper during a McKinsey interview. The second element is geared to the book's main target audience: potential b-school applicants. To be honest, I was shocked by how well Philip recollects the cases and formulae from HBS. I certainly got quite a refresher!
In the end, Philip chooses to opt out of the post-HBS grind, having fully opted into the experience while there. Funnily enough, too many people do the opposite. They float through HBS, barely read cases, sign up for courses on Tue-Thu so they can travel all second year, and then opt into a grueling i-banking or hedge fund job. Personally, I think Philip has come out a better person having learned much from what HBS has to offer and still chosen to pursue life in his own manner. He's the type of graduate HBS should be proud of - I certainly am proud to have gotten to know him while there!
Despite everything I wrote above, I must point out that PDB is a writer and as such, he left plenty out that didn't fit his theses. For example, I was a part of a team of three with him on a first-semester project in our second year. Of the three of us, exactly zero has jobs we accepted after graduation. Of course, all of us has unusual ambitions, but comparisons are driven by one's choice of peer groups. Philip stands out dramatically when compared to i-banker types, but he may not be so unusual amongst others, albeit smaller, HBS groups. One of his section-mates, for example, joined a record label in a creative role after school for a salary of at most 1/4 of what he would have gotten had he gone back to his investment banking career.
Overall, Philip gives a balanced perspective on HBS. He gives an even more balanced perspective on himself and it was a joy to follow his personal travails. Yes, he does omit descriptions of some of the more "out there" folks from HBS, but no, he doesn't break any sacred bonds of the HBS classrooms. If you went to HBS and are fuming based on the press coverage of this book, please read it first before forming an opinion. And if you think about going there, PLEASE READ IT!
I attended Harvard Business School while in law school many years ago. I was surprised to find out how many things are similar to when I attended. The student complaints were similar, too.
I thought that Mr. Broughton did an excellent job of explaining what the case system is all about and what occurs in preparing for and during a class. If you've always wanted to go to HBS, here's a chance to take a peek.
The book's strength is in exposing the values behind HBS, people seeking the highest-paying jobs despite the personal cost to family life and one's own soul. Mr. Broughton made some half-hearted attempts to seek out such opportunities, but ended his two years at Harvard with a large loan to show for the experience . . . and no job.
The book's weakness comes in Mr. Broughton's desire to teach you some of the basic concepts about business management. I doubt if you are interested. He doesn't always get it right, either.
I found myself comparing Ahead of the Curve to One L, Scott Turow's brilliant description of the bad old days of being a first-year law student at Harvard. One L is a better book. But both are powerful in explaining what it feels like to be a student in the middle of the gigantic forces moving to shape you like a vise into a new form that will be attractive to employers.
And yet... whenever he writes about something I know about, he is DEAD wrong. Since I was never a Harvard MBA student I wonder whether his depictions of places and events of which he is supposed to be more familiar are any more accurate.
Let me give 3 examples. In his dismissive account of a visit to Silicon Valley (pp 120-21) he writes "Up in the hills were town such as Palo Alto, Woodside, and Atherton..." The housing in Palo Alto & Atherton is not up in hills. It's on the flatlands skirting the San Francisco Bay, at most 100 feet above the water. In fact the city data at [...] has it located 23 feet above sea level, hardly "up in the hills".
Of his visit to Google he writes "Google's headquarters was a sprawling glass and metal complex originally built for Netscape" (pp 219). No, it wasn't. It's previous tenant was Silicon Graphics (SGI). Netscape was never in the building. There is a *tenuous* connection -- Jim Clarke, a founder of SGI, left and later founded Netscape among other companies. But Clarke left SGI long before SGI even erected the complex (and then immediately cratered as a going business). But if this sentence exemplifies the depth of his research and the accuracy of his reporting, what in the book can you trust?
In recounting a talk by Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans, he writes that Dan recommended they ditch their copies of books about entrepreneurs recommended by the faculty and "read 'One Smart Cookie', the biography of Debbi Fields, the founder of Mrs. Fields cookies (pp 238). She was a single mother, had three children by the age of twenty-one, and loved cookies. She know nothing about finance or business." Uh, no. Not a single sentence he remembers is true. She was married, her husband a wealthy stockbroker working in Palo Alto (not in the "hills", but on University Ave). The "little Missus" liked to bake, so as an indulgence he spotted her a store in a food mall down the block from his job. The very 1st Mrs. Fields store was right in pricy downtown Palo Alto (inside a mall later razed and now hosting a Z-Gallerie store). And if she knew nothing about finance, her husband (now ex) certainly did.
I was never in the classes the author attended. Maybe those accounts are accurate. But every time I ran across something in this book I know about, his story is just plain wrong and/or shows he didn't bother spending even a few minutes to check his account is correct. So I'm skeptical, to say the least, about the rest of the book.
He wrote his book when the school was headed up by devote Mormon economist Kim Clark, who has since left for another challenge -- making Ricks College (now called BYU-Idaho) into a top rated 4-year college.
His main conclusion is that MBA students at Harvard are insecure overachievers and "a factory of unhappy people" who, when they graduate, work too much at their jobs and don't spend enough time with their families and outside interests (p. 268) He said most of the famous CEOs who came to speak at Harvard were successful in business but failures in their home live (multi-divorces). On p. 270, he tells the story of a Goldman Sachs exec who came to Harvard to talk about leadership and values, and then confessed he had four ex-wives. However, he fails to mention that dean Clark has managed to have a successful career and a good family life with seven kids and a loving wife.
I'm citing the page numbers because shockingly this book, published by Penguin, doesn't have an index. Talk about behind the curve!
If you want to know what the author thinks of dean Kim Clark, go to pp. 5-6, 19-20, 28, 85-86, 111, 164, and 208. "Clark has whittled his life down to just four things: work, family, faith, and golf." (p. 85)
As far for his suggestions for improvement at HBS (at the end of the book), I thought he had some good ideas. One was that professors who teach entrepreneurship should not be pure academics but practitioners who have had lots of real world experience. Amen. I found that at Columbia B school, over half the professors had no experience running companies, and the micro they used for microeconomics was a standard micro text, not a managerial econ textbook.
The reason for this strange situation is that years ago top B schools decided they should compete with top academic departments by hiring PhDs who write abstract papers in top journals rather than running successful businesses.
The other major drawback to today's top B schools is that they don't teach hardly any history of finance or business, other than case studies (and those are usually from the recent past). Robert Heinlein wisely said, "He who refuses to study history has no past and no future."
What a sad commentary on today's ivy-league B schools. Fortunately, other B schools, such as Acton and Market-Based Management at Wichita State do teach applied courses by practionioners, not just academics.
The author cites a delightful statement by Jack Welch when he visited HBS: "Government generates no revenues. Government lives off taxes generated by business and people that work in business. Don't ever forget that." (See p. 233)
I could find only one sin of omission: Broughton never discussed the "Biggie" course at HBS, the macroeconomic course on "Business, Government and International Economics."
And one sin of commission: I liked his writing style, but he overdid the use of 4-letter words and vulgarities. Isn't it a sad commentary on the business, finance and academic world that top graduates can't control their tongue?


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Before Donald Trump or House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) or a panel of health industry executives called this month for a leadership makeover to save VA healthcare, a separate committee of VA advisors asked critics this election year to stop ignoring an unprecedented transformation occurring across the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veteran service organizations echo a similar message, noting, for example, that key parts of Trump's 10-point plan to improve VA healthcare, unveiled Monday in Virginia Beach, were embraced months ago by VA and are being implemented or awaiting new authorities or funding from Congress.
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The committee unanimously agreed "the change we have witnessed over the past 15-months – at all levels of the Department – is unprecedented." Though significant challenges remain to modernize such a large and complex organization, the committee said, the VA transformation underway "is right, appropriate and does set a course for long-term reform and excellence across the department."
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