Posted on 02/15/2009 11:55:49 AM PST by pabianice
Fox News is on air now giving details of Porkulus. According to Fox, the only part of the economy to be cut by Porkulus is our military -- 10% "to start," in the words of Barney Frank, for maintenance, training, and procurement. Other details include the Veterans Administration sharply cutting medical treatment for vets, and for military retirees, patient premiums and co-pays for TRICARE are being raised 100-400%, PLUS medical care for veterans and retirees will be the first to be rationed by the White House Office of Healthcare Coordination.
FEEL the love, tolerance, and bipartisanship...
Do you have links or the pages of the pdf that address this?
I don’t mind paying for the military or the care for our vets..
I believe it. I’ve read similar statements from other sources over the past few days on this matter.
NO, I don’t have any links. I read this stuff, and go on to the next news item and read that stuff.
Same here. Unfortunately, we’re not president.
All you have to do to see how government health care “works” just look at the VA system. Just wait, under the Obama health care plan, the VA system will look wonderful in comparison.
Wasn’t it the left that was screaming bloody murder about the Bush Administration not taking proper care of our vets?
How is reducing the amount of money the military spends a stimulus?
I think this move is an attack against current service members. By cutting spending, troops have less. By cutting future benefits it removes one reason for staying.
If you suffer combat related injuries, soldiers have the Veterans Administration to count on. By cutting care now, this will directly impact the wounded warriors who have protected us from terrorists.
Zero sucks.
Obama sees no need for the military once we have been subjugated to the United Nations.
Over at Dumpsterunderground, they’re cheering cuts for our veterans. What loathsome hatemongers.
Do you know which pages address this? I couldn’t find it. Thanks.
http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/exeres/EC04E763-32A1-488A-BE9E-BEA4985003CD.htm
Just a start folks. They are going to gut the military much worse than Clinton!!!
One could surmise that the 10% cut in military costs may coincide with the percent of our patriotic Americans that will chose to leave the military rather than serve the new Socialist Messiah. Send the witch Pelosi, dirty Reid, and the rest of the DC gutter scum to fight in Iraq and Afganistan and next Iran. Let them put actions where their two-sided mouths are.
PING
"God and the soldier, we adore,
In time of danger, not before!
The danger past and all things righted,
God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted!"
Written by a Marlborough Vetertan, over 400 years ago!
Many of you are missing the point.
This is to FORCE many more people on to gubment healthcare.
The moire you depend on gubment, the more you HAVE to vote Democrat to keep those EVIL REPUBLICANS from taking things away from you.
FACISM has arrived, folks..
And this is EXACTLY how the Nazi’s took control of Germany.
Retiree Benefits Cut Ping!
Lets call home the troops and together we will clean out Washington.
I am not surprised.
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