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This Veterans Day should catalyze major systemic reforms - Washington Examiner

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David Gergen : Despite good intentions, services to veterans seem to improve only at the margins.

He says the federal government alone spends about $325 billion for veterans' benefits.

Gergen says Congress should make two massive changes to federal veterans programs.

The VA should be exempt from civil service laws applicable to the rest of the federal workforce, he says.

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