Comments on: UPDATE – Obama To Wounded Veterans: Go F*%$ Yourself

By: Nick Marinelli

Nick Marinelli — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:41:03 +0000

Mike, with all due respect, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Under the Bush Administration, spending on Veterans’ benefits increased 56%., despite the fact that the Democrats ran the Congress for most of the Administration’s final four years. Some of Bush’s largest and most enthusiastic crowds have been comprised of active-duty military and veterans.

By: Mike Thomas

Mike Thomas — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:30:29 +0000

Well, what do you know?

The White House on Wednesday backed off a controversial plan that would have dramatically altered the way the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) handles insurance claims, after veterans groups staged an all-out fight against such a proposal. President Obama will not pursue a proposal that would have allowed the VA to charge private insurance companies for the treatment of veterans with service- and war-related injuries.

So when the Veterans talk, Obama listens. Nice change from the last eight years, I think.

By: Sandra C.

Sandra C. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:24:12 +0000

Obscene plan. Obviously, Sen. Kennedy is getting great care with his brain tumor. What this country needs to do is get ONE plan and have everybody live under it, including the pampered, over-benefitted self-made live-above-everybody else privileged class that exists in our Congressional Halls!

Hummmmm. In fact, we need to tighten our belts. Military told to cut 10%, local schools trying to tighten 20% off of their budget. Let’s see; isn’t there some way our fabulous 50 Senators and their fellow Representatives couldn’t take 10-20% off of THEIR budget? Don’t they have a way of cutting their electricity/printing costs/parking costs/staff/telephone bills/hair cut bills/car washing bills/chauffeur bills? Lordy, these people only WORK 4 days a week (less if America is in a lucky week!) and seems if Americans have to ‘suck it in’, they could, too.

Oh, gosh, I forgot. Our Congress has forgotten HOW to ‘suck it up’. All they know how to do is HAND out and give out to their cohorts, or illegal aliens or imprisoned TERRORISTS (are we still allowed to say the last two or do we have to say ‘undocumented immigrants’ and ‘misguided non-uniformed freedom fighters’?).

I’m disgusted with all of them! They’re letting our country run down the drain while they diddle in Congress demanding hearings as to why 7 D.A.s were fired seven years ago!

Maybe instead of having “tea parties” around the country, we should dump our whole Congress into the Boston waters!

There! I DO feel better.

By: Nick Marinelli

Nick Marinelli — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:41:40 +0000

Mike, the fact that Obama would even suggest this shows his hatred of this country’s veterans. What good is spending $25 billion on new VA hospitals and staff if the veterans can’t afford to use them?

And yes, businesses will stop hiring veterans when they realize how much higher their insurance premiums for all of their employees will be. And, if they still hire the veteran, then all of their employees’ rates will go up.

By: Mike Thomas

Mike Thomas — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:50:05 +0000

Obama’s budget would add $25 billion to the Veterans Administration, prompting the Vietnam Veterans of America to declare “this is the best budget submitted by a President in the 30-year history of VVA.”
That sure doesn’t sound like “someone with a deep-seated hatred of the men and women who risk their lives to protect our rights.”
The proposal to bill private insurers for some services may or may not survive the budget process (I’m guessing not), but it involves just $540 million compared to $25 billion. I doubt any veteran would even notice the difference if it were to pass. And the idea that it would cause companies to not hire these veterans is laughable. Do you not know about the government benefits that get showered onto companies when they hire disabled vets?