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Imagine if either of the Bushes, Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon had done this. And why do we have to hear about this from an overseas news source?
1 posted on 03/04/2012 3:30:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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If he has his way we ALL are going to lose our health benefits starting with the eldest and working it’s way down.


2 posted on 03/04/2012 3:38:32 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Well, we as a nation had the choice in 2008. We could vote for a Veteran or a freeloader for President. We got the freeloader along with his criminal pals.


3 posted on 03/04/2012 3:39:47 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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One of the biggest areas of contention is the increases of health care fees that specifically target military retirees by boosting their co-pay charges and deductibles.

Please hear me out and don't flame me. Raising co-pays and deductibles is happening to everyone. It is a huge necessity because it makes a person really think before going to the doctor - the patient has a financial stake in the decision. This is being applied to all medical benefits, including the richest private plans as well as to plans for the poor (Medicaid). All I'm saying is before you pan this decision please read about it and think it through logically.

4 posted on 03/04/2012 3:43:59 PM PST by Brian_Candy
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Have I mentioned how much I hate this paper-hanging SOB we have soiling the Oval Office?


5 posted on 03/04/2012 3:45:47 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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The President is dishonoring troops and hurting the military’s recruiting power.


8 posted on 03/04/2012 3:51:39 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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If the repblicans let this go through they might as well shut off the lights, give Obama the keys, and go back to shaking down their home towns.


9 posted on 03/04/2012 3:51:53 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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It’s a matter of balance. The money saved by reducing health benefits for troops can be used for contraception coverage for female law students at exclusive colleges.


11 posted on 03/04/2012 3:55:18 PM PST by Cold Heart
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Is this comment true in that article? Why is this guy not demanding more for our military? He is comparing his chef son to someone who fought their country?

I get Tricare Prime healthcare. I will say to people who are complaining to stop. It is based on a person’s rank at retirement. I am not complaining because we pay $460 a year. While my son is a cook at a chain eatery who makes $12.00 per hour and pays alittle over $400.00 a month for a family of 4. Now I find that outrages. He used to get 2 weeks a yr vacation time. He has been there over 12 yrs and their bosses took away a week from the employees except for the managers. My dad and fathe-in-law both retired from the military at a time that they and their families got free health care for life. Now they can’t do it anymore. I don’t like having to pay for the health care but we are still better off then alot of people so stop complaining. I know I got our monies worth with all my health issues. If you don’t like it don’t take it. It is that simple.

- AFM, Cookeville,TN, 28/2/2012 22:37


14 posted on 03/04/2012 4:00:36 PM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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By the end of the year, our military will be about the same size as a relatively large Boy Scout troop and have an average age of 13.4 so they won’t need too much healthcare.

However, the POTUS will not be able to commit them to war without getting a permission slip from their parents!


15 posted on 03/04/2012 4:00:58 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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Just think how much more money could be saved if soldiers were required to buy their own bullets and bombs! I’m sure one of BHO’s academic genius’ will propose that next.


16 posted on 03/04/2012 4:02:23 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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I don’t have much of a problem with a modest increase in Tricare prices. After my husband retired, we paid $460/year, which is almost nothing when compared to comparable civilian policies. Now we get Tricare “free”, and I really wouldn’t mind having to pay modestly for the benefit. I do think that the junior enlisted should have their Tricare fully subsidized; heaven knows, they don’t earn much as it is.


25 posted on 03/04/2012 4:15:11 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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Well, I’m sure that they’ll use the money they save by screwing Veterans to reduce the national debt instead of using it for something so blatant as buying votes for the Democrat party. Oh, that’s right......it is the Democrats....spend my money well little Democrat freeloader.....I didn’t mind defending you, but do you have to rob me as a way of showing thanks?


34 posted on 03/04/2012 4:32:09 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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39 posted on 03/04/2012 4:54:38 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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40 posted on 03/04/2012 4:54:52 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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41 posted on 03/04/2012 4:55:12 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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I only recently started using the VA medical system. All of my copays on drugs are $8. Three of them I can get at Walmart or Target for $4. I’m doing a new means test next month and I’m probably going to have to start paying copays for office visits and medical procedures (hope I don’t need any soon). And I don’t make much.


44 posted on 03/04/2012 5:03:11 PM PST by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." - Peter Griffin)
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Troops & vets should form unions. Barry loves union benefits.


46 posted on 03/04/2012 5:09:12 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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He raises the budget to record levels and then cuts the crap out of the military as if he is doing something about the deficit. What an a**hat.


50 posted on 03/04/2012 5:28:11 PM PST by calex59
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'Would you stay with a car insurance company that raised your premiums by 345 per cent in five years? Probably not

Should you be F'ing with the pitbull you trained to kill on command? Probably not.

54 posted on 03/04/2012 5:36:48 PM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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...the President is dishonoring troops and hurting the military's recruiting power.

....to expect anything different from a lying Constitution stomping, American hating MUSLIM would be puzzling

56 posted on 03/04/2012 5:39:21 PM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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