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Quill Lawrence

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Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

Well, I mean, technically it means something, right? That they thought they had no choice but to turn off this option. But I mean, the thing that doesn't seem to add up or make any sense in that, it's like, you know, when we went to the VA, there were 6,000 veterans on the verge of foreclosure, in the foreclosure process. A total of 40,000 vets headed that direction.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

Well, I mean, technically it means something, right? That they thought they had no choice but to turn off this option. But I mean, the thing that doesn't seem to add up or make any sense in that, it's like, you know, when we went to the VA, there were 6,000 veterans on the verge of foreclosure, in the foreclosure process. A total of 40,000 vets headed that direction.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

I mean, you would think the VA would be jumping up and down saying, like, we've got a serious problem. We have to shut down this thing that's going to strand all these veterans. We need help. Congress, somebody, please. And it wasn't that. I mean, it was like it seemed like somewhere in a dark room late at night, somebody pulled the plug. It's bizarre.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

I mean, you would think the VA would be jumping up and down saying, like, we've got a serious problem. We have to shut down this thing that's going to strand all these veterans. We need help. Congress, somebody, please. And it wasn't that. I mean, it was like it seemed like somewhere in a dark room late at night, somebody pulled the plug. It's bizarre.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

I mean, you would think the VA would be jumping up and down saying, like, we've got a serious problem. We have to shut down this thing that's going to strand all these veterans. We need help. Congress, somebody, please. And it wasn't that. I mean, it was like it seemed like somewhere in a dark room late at night, somebody pulled the plug. It's bizarre.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

So it was like, oh, there is a raging fire, you know, basically. And they have these fire trucks, but they don't have the wheels on them and the hoses. And that's not all going to be built for like maybe six months from now. So all the houses were going to be burned down. before the VA's rescue plan was like on the road. I mean, it just like, this is what you're doing.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

So it was like, oh, there is a raging fire, you know, basically. And they have these fire trucks, but they don't have the wheels on them and the hoses. And that's not all going to be built for like maybe six months from now. So all the houses were going to be burned down. before the VA's rescue plan was like on the road. I mean, it just like, this is what you're doing.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

So it was like, oh, there is a raging fire, you know, basically. And they have these fire trucks, but they don't have the wheels on them and the hoses. And that's not all going to be built for like maybe six months from now. So all the houses were going to be burned down. before the VA's rescue plan was like on the road. I mean, it just like, this is what you're doing.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

Why put families through hell, he said, if we don't have to, if there's going to be help in a few months?

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

Why put families through hell, he said, if we don't have to, if there's going to be help in a few months?

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

Why put families through hell, he said, if we don't have to, if there's going to be help in a few months?

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

Ray and Becky Queen are showing us around their farm in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

Ray and Becky Queen are showing us around their farm in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

Ray and Becky Queen are showing us around their farm in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

So, yeah, so this time we do the story. And four powerful U.S. senators who had major committees fire off a letter to the VA. And they were basically like, WTF, what is going on?

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

So, yeah, so this time we do the story. And four powerful U.S. senators who had major committees fire off a letter to the VA. And they were basically like, WTF, what is going on?

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

So, yeah, so this time we do the story. And four powerful U.S. senators who had major committees fire off a letter to the VA. And they were basically like, WTF, what is going on?

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

That was not, yeah, that's not technically what they wrote, but that was the spirit of the letter.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

That was not, yeah, that's not technically what they wrote, but that was the spirit of the letter.

Planet Money
The veteran loan calamity

That was not, yeah, that's not technically what they wrote, but that was the spirit of the letter.