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Originally Posted by TCLGirls
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"Much has been said over the past few weeks about the budget proposal in the House of Representatives, offered by Rep. Paul Ryan, and backed by Republican members, but not much has been said about how it will affect our veterans. As you know, the Paul Ryan plan will end Medicare, making it a voucher program, leaving seniors to buy their own insurance in the private system. It will therefore end one of the most popular and successful initiatives ever offered.
This plan will also punish veterans - harshly - and it's important that you spread the word on how it will do so."
http://www.votevets.org/pages/?id=0047
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"U.S. Senate Republicans blocked legislation on Thursday that would have expanded federal healthcare and education programs for veterans, saying the $24 billion bill would bust the budget."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A1Q26O20140227
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"For those who continue to believe that obstructionism at any cost is not the goal of the Senate Republicans, consider the behavior of the GOP Senators who, on Friday, blocked a bi-partisan effort to pass a bill that would put veterans to work in jobs that look after the nation?s federal land while also giving our fighting men and women a leg up when it comes to getting them hired by local police and fire departments."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickunga...-need-of-jobs/ |
Hey, I know about the veterans bill, the GOP said it was flawed like most of the bills that are pushed thru without doing the math, IE Obamacare
Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said the federal government already has six job-training programs for veterans and there is no way to know how well they are working. He argued that making progress on the country's debt was the best way to help veterans in the long-term.
"We ought to do nothing now that makes the problem worse for our kids and grandkids," Coburn said.
Democratic officials did not have an estimate for how many veterans would be hired as a result of the legislation. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said much would depend upon the number of applicants. She noted that more than 720,000 veterans are unemployed across the nation, including 220,000 veterans who have served since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She said putting veterans back to work was the cost of war.
I think Murray should have had a better plan for getting the bill passed when it was going to push the budget past agreed upon limits....
Or are you of the mind set off throwing money at everything and feel good about it, regardless if it works or not?
Maybe you should look at what the VA head is in trouble for and that the GOP is calling for his job and the democrats are still supporting him?
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that