Posted on 11/18/2009 2:20:39 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
Edited on 11/18/2009 2:29:33 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Click to add front page to the “topic” and check all of the states. That will increase exposure to the thread 100 fold.
Nevermind I’ll get on computer and do it real fast.
See. WE BE THE ACTIVISTS! That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
Done..it’s on the front page and all of the state pages.
and editiorial and extended news.. Gotta go bump!
Great idea. I’m sick of funding the UN, which has gradually turned from its founding principles into nothing but a bureaucracy run by thugs, Muslims, Communists, and terrorists.
I was hoping maybe we would act when the Oil for Food scandal broke, and support for the UN had diminished among the voters.
But no.
Who do we want to fund, our veterans, or a bunch of freeloading child sex slavers?
This shoud be a no brainer even amongst the dems with no brains. Unfortunately, it probably isn’t.
Bump to frmail... :)
What a good idea! (Why didn't I think of that? Smack myself upside the head.)
Will email this far and wide!
You’re welcome, MestaMachine.
This is why I depend on my *pingers*.
Thanks, LucyT.
Oh, Good Lord..I’ll be on the phones first thing!!!! This has got to stop...all of it..and NOW!
Anyone know what time the vote is?
Sorry...I don’t know.
I don’t trust this group at all. Who knows they could be voting on it right now.
Bumpin it up!
UN money is wasted money.
The un is a waste..and full of freedom grabbers.
This is what is being voted on:
This is Coburn’s latest update:
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=RightNow.Home
Coburn’s efforts to improve the Caregiver and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act
November 18, 2009
The Senate will soon debate S. 1963, the Caregiver and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act. The bill contains many provisions regarding caregiver assistance, rural health care for veterans, construction of VA facilities, and several pilot programs. However, the issue that has garnered the most attention is the caregiver assistance.
S.1963 creates a new VA program that provides caregivers of severely disabled wartime veterans the following new benefits. Typically the VA does not provide benefits for non-veterans, this program would be an exception to that. This bill proposes
• monthly stipends for caregivers of disabled wartime veterans (CBO estimates around $2300 per month maximum)
• health coverage for caregivers (if they do not have health insurance)
• travel benefits for caregivers (lodging and per diem when taking veterans to VA hospitals)
• training for caregivers to provide proper medical care and assistance
However, S.1963 as written only provides benefits to veterans injured after September 11, 2001. Also, the bill does not identify a source of funding to pay for the increased spending.
Dr. Coburn’s amendment opens the eligibility for this program to ALL veterans who are severely disabled from wartime service. He also directs that the Secretary of State should transfer funding out of the U.S. contribution to the United Nations to the VA to pay for this program.
If Dr. Coburn’s amendment is not adopted, and S.1963 becomes law, it will exclude a large number of severely disabled wartime veterans from these benefits benefits, maintain funding for the UN, and increase the already massive national debt.
My daughter called me from Denver on Veterans Day. I told her that for the first time in 15 or so years we were having a parade and reception in this little town I live in. She said on the campus where she goes to school veterans were demonstrating because many on them have not yet received GI bill money they were approved for. These are Afghanistan and Iraq veterans.
I was just getting ready to post a google search link for that..guess I’ll do it anyway. Can’t use bing on this phone yet.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=S.+1963&btnG=Google+Search
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