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Republicans Today Put Politics Above Our Veterans
United States Senate Democrats ^ | 9/19/12 | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Posted on 09/19/2012 4:36:46 PM PDT by mdittmar

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can someone give me a good explanation for why this happened? The libs are having a field day with this. I don’t know the good reasons for it but I want to counter their claims. We need it to be easy for libs and undecideds to understand. We need ammunition in this propaganda war.


21 posted on 09/19/2012 6:38:51 PM PDT by Ziva (Check out the great art blog at http://blog.RetroCollage.com/)
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To: Ziva

I’d check the websites for the DAV, VFW, Legion, AMVETS and the like for the real story.


22 posted on 09/19/2012 6:43:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I checked all of their websites and found nothing about it yet.


23 posted on 09/19/2012 7:07:21 PM PDT by Ziva (Check out the great art blog at http://blog.RetroCollage.com/)
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To: Ziva

It increases the deficit:

Vet jobs bill fails in Senate; caught in Hill battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/vet-jobs-bill-fails-in-senate-caught-in-hill-battle/2012/09/19/9d35a104-0292-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_story.html


24 posted on 09/19/2012 7:14:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: mdittmar

What a pant load.

Now, if Harry was saying this bill would help the Russian Navy and the Turkish Air Force, well, I’d probably believe him then.


25 posted on 09/19/2012 7:28:51 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: Ziva

There are already six Veterans Job Training bills in effect, with supposedly noone monitoring them as to their effectiveness. So this would be additional money spent that we don’t have. In addition, this bill is considered unconstitutional because spending bills should originate in the House, not the Senate. Google Sam Coburn as I believe he put out a report last year as to how ineffective and costly the programs were. “The report follows last year’s groundbreaking study from the Government Accountability Office that found taxpayers are spending $18 billion on 47 duplicative job training programs across 9 federal agencies. GAO could not find evidence that any of the job training programs were working.”


26 posted on 09/19/2012 9:16:09 PM PDT by ParkerPoo
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The bill was for 1,000,000,000 dollars we don’t have and the Democrats wouldn’t compromise to lower the amount so it failed.


27 posted on 09/19/2012 9:33:36 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: ParkerPoo

ParkerPoo, THANK YOU SO MUCH! That is exactly what I needed to help me with the libs and moderates who don’t know the history! It was a great service you did for me.

Now I’m going after ALL the lib posts on FB and post the truth for them.


28 posted on 09/19/2012 9:33:43 PM PDT by Ziva (Check out the great art blog at http://blog.RetroCollage.com/)
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To: mkjessup

as Dan Rather said, “The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”


29 posted on 09/19/2012 9:37:11 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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