Derrick Van Orden: “We can wind up hiring the entire population? That's called…”

“So what percentage of the veterans that we're helping, that you're helping with your 6,800 employees go on to work in the civilian sector where they're actually not part of the government, because We can wind up hiring the entire population? That's called communism. And I'm not implying that you're a communist or that Steve's a communist. I'm saying that when universal governmental employment is taking place, that's a different system of governance than we live under.” (08:38–08:43)

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