Way to go you Right Wing Hypocrites.

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So you send these kids off to war.. then you screw them when they come back injured severly from your war.
Nice way to screw veterans from this generation just like you have in my generation.
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Your homilies of THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.. ring HOLLOW once again.

If you really DO support our servicemen and servicewomen.. then DO something about it with your Right Wing Congressional delegates... just for once.

YOUR BUDGET
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/2006budget/budget06_program_cuts.html

Trauma Care 3 0 -3
Traumatic Brain Injury 9 0 -9


http://www.aapd-dc.org/News/budgetproposal/braininj.htm

WASHINGTON - Less than a week after delivering a State of the Union address in which he asserted that the "road to victory" is the one that brings our troops home, President Bush recommended eliminating the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) program, which includes funding for Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI) - programs essential to so many troops returning with disabilities acquired in combat.

"At a time when traumatic brain injuries account for a higher proportion of casualties than in other wars, it is unconscionable that the President is recommending absolutely no funding for a program so essential to this population," said Curt Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN).

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12482733/

Brain injuries common for Iraq war vets
Thanks to body armor, thousands survive combat but face lengthy rehab

That was at the Naval Medical Center. For two years now Jason has been treated at the Palo Alto VA Hospital — one of four specialized centers for rehabilitation of the huge numbers of brain injured troops. The program uses intense, individualized physical and mental rehabilitation.

Dr. Harriet Zeiner is a clinical neuropsychologist in the hospital’s polytrauma unit.

“Every hour of the day something is done,” Zeiner says, “And we're very careful to keep within the envelope of what someone is capable of doing and pushing it just a little.”

Angel Gomez is learning to walk again.

Frank Sandoval is struggling to eat on his own.

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Hm that sucks big time. The government is morally obliged to take care of the ones who risk their lives to carry out the governments will. What will the money saved be used on?

Perhaps faith based charity organisations can pick up the bill, or at least part of it? Mr. Bush has after all made it clear that that is how he prefers such matters to be dealt with.

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Hm that sucks big time. The government is morally obliged to take care of the ones who risk their lives to carry out the governments will. What will the money saved be used on?

The original post was a bit misleading. The budget cut is to the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, an organization within the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services. There is nothing to suggest that returning troops won't get full care at Bethesda or subsequent care through the VA. This just cuts a contribution to a completely non-military, non-profit advocacy group that disabled veterans could have theoretically gone to for support.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[Amazon 7]

Not at all.. its part of their program...

The Cuts to the VA are CERTAINLY real. And have been for a few years now.

http://www.house.gov/budget_democrats/pres_budgets/hc_veterans.pdf

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Not at all.. its part of their program...

Go back to the link you posted (quoted below) and see what department the quoted part falls under (and note there are no cuts this year to the Department of Veterans Affairs):

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/2006budget/budget06_program_cuts.html

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The Cuts to the VA are CERTAINLY real. And have been for a few years now.

I absolutely agree there have been unconscionable cuts to the VA for a few years now. This just isn't one of them.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[Amazon 7]

So.. the VA budget gets cut....and cant provide the services necessary to help a hell of a lot of injured vets with brain damage....knowing the level of WHO the VA hires....

On the Flip side.. NOW the Administration cuts the funding to the group who is ACTUALLY doing research into the damage to the brain. These are the people who will eventually have to take care of the vets who the VA will not help...

Similar to the vets that were denied to have any form of damage by the VA from agent Orange..

Similar to the vets who came back from the Gulf in 1991 with mysterious diseases that the VA said did not exist... yet private sector research found various causal factors..

By cutting the budget in this area... it shows a lack of genuine desire to help our own people.

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So.. the VA budget gets cut....and cant provide the services necessary to help a hell of a lot of injured vets with brain damage....knowing the level of WHO the VA hires....

On the Flip side.. NOW the Administration cuts the funding to the group who is ACTUALLY doing research into the damage to the brain. These are the people who will eventually have to take care of the vets who the VA will not help...

Similar to the vets that were denied to have any form of damage by the VA from agent Orange..

Similar to the vets who came back from the Gulf in 1991 with mysterious diseases that the VA said did not exist... yet private sector research found various causal factors..

By cutting the budget in this area... it shows a lack of genuine desire to help our own people.

Bush's first VA budget cuts were announced the same day he gave a speech at Walter Reed extolling the virtues of wounded vets and telling them that they would be taken care of.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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On the Flip side.. NOW the Administration cuts the funding to the group who is ACTUALLY doing research into the damage to the brain.

What gave you that impression (that this funding goes toward research)? It's Protection and Advocacy funding, you know...help them through the SSI or disability bureacracy, ensure they're not discriminated against in housing or employment, stuff like that. I'd be curious to find out what percentage of users are vets. I'd bet very few, if any.

If you'd like to know how the PATBI works in Washington State (the funding being cut trickles down to the states), start here.

Edit to fix URL

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[Amazon 7]

I guess all the Republican Pork Barrel is FAR mor important..
Check out the pet projects in the 10's of millions of dollars... of the Republican Committe heads of Appropriations.. Defense etc.

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2006

I especially LOVE this list

The 2006 Congressional Pig Book is the latest installment of Citizens Against Government Waste’s (CAGW) 16-year exposé of pork-barrel spending. This year’s list includes: $13,500,000 for the International Fund for Ireland, which helped finance the World Toilet Summit; $6,435,000 for wood utilization research; $1,000,000 for the Waterfree Urinal Conservation Initiative; and $500,000 for the Sparta Teapot Museum in Sparta, N.C.

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$13,500,000 for the International Fund for Ireland

Ireland's economy is flying, what is this money for?

[Amazon 7]

Who the fuck knows..... its someones pet project. something about World Toilet Project

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$500,000 for the Sparta Teapot Museum in Sparta, N.C.

we don't make sweet tea in no damn teapot!!!

Scars remind us that the past is real

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Just like back in the good ole days eh?


circa 1972 and on

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$13,500,000 for the International Fund for Ireland

Ireland's economy is flying, what is this money for?

if it looks like, and smells like Jabba the Hut, it must be Uncle Ted.

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$13,500,000 for the International Fund for Ireland

Ireland's economy is flying, what is this money for?

Congressional Fact-Finding Tours!!? Especially if they stay overnight at The Chicago Fairmont. Apparently, if you book their $300K overnight B&B package, you get flown into Chicago in a private jet, taken to the hotel in a Rolls-Royce or Bentley Limosine, and next morning you drive away in the limo... Which you get to keep (along with the towels)!

Mike.

Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.

Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

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Wrong again Cupcake.... but dont let that hatred blind you to the real culprits here.....

Lookie who runs the committee...Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee where this one emanates from.

http://mcconnell.senate.gov/gallery.cfm



OOOPS an R from Kentucky..WOW>. look at that bubble burst above your head.

State, Foreign Operations

The members are as follows:
Senator Mitch McConnell (Chairman) (KY)
Senator Arlen Specter (PA)
Senator Judd Gregg (NH)
Senator Richard Shelby (AL)
Senator Robert Bennett (UT)
Senator Christopher Bond (MO)
Senator Mike DeWine (OH)
Senator Sam Brownback (KS)
Senator Patrick Leahy (Ranking Member) (VT)
Senator Daniel Inouye (HI)
Senator Tom Harkin (IA)
Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD)
Senator Richard Durbin (IL)
Senator Tim Johnson (SD)
Senator Mary Landrieu (LA)

Looks to me the R's are making up for 40 years of a pork Diet..... now they are engorging their districts on Pork at the expense of the American people.. in time of war.

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>Republican Pork Barrel <

I love this statement

They do it all alone don't they??

Careful, your blind bias is showing

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Amazon 7]

Werent they supposed to be the Party of Smaller Government????

Remember the Contract with America????

Lying assholes..... but you love that in them.. dont you.

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Werent they supposed to be the Party of Smaller Government????

Remember the Contract with America????

Lying assholes..... but you love that in them.. dont you.

Another funny statement from you!
You are on a roll today.

If you look at other posts by me you would see that I am pissed about the spending by the Repubs and Bush

But you saying that this is a Republican problem .....well, thanks for the laugh and proof of your blind hatred!!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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But you saying that this is a Republican problem .....well, thanks for the laugh and proof of your blind hatred!!

It's definitely both parties WAY overspending. But I betcha Bush will have spent a fuckload more in his 8 years than Clinton did.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

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When was the last time governmental shrank over the previous eight years?

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When was the last time governmental shrank over the previous eight years?

Probably not in my lifetime! If it's ever happened, I'd guess pre-FDR. Governments are parasitic, they feed off of us and just keep growing. I'd like to see 8 years of a Libertarian government.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

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But you saying that this is a Republican problem .....well, thanks for the laugh and proof of your blind hatred!!

There you go again... as good old Ronnie Rayguns said..... DUDE its not hatred its an observation.. and most of the time you guys on the radical right just rubber stamp your own abuses of spending.. abuses of power.. abuses of the public trust.. and abuses of the LAW... like I said... HYPOCRISY....you are so good at it. I dont hate the RePUBICans.... I just try to point out your blind hypocrisy that has reached a grand scale on a daily basis.

So much for all your pandering to the religeous right... morality... in this administration.. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. what a joke... I would LOVE to be at the pearly gates when this crop of assholes arrives...I will lay you odds they are not getting in.

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But you saying that this is a Republican problem .....well, thanks for the laugh and proof of your blind hatred!!

There you go again... as good old Ronnie Rayguns said..... DUDE its not hatred its an observation.. and most of the time you guys on the radical right just rubber stamp your own abuses of spending.. abuses of power.. abuses of the public trust.. and abuses of the LAW... like I said... HYPOCRISY....you are so good at it. I dont hate the RePUBICans.... I just try to point out your blind hypocrisy that has reached a grand scale on a daily basis.

So much for all your pandering to the religeous right... morality... in this administration.. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. what a joke... I would LOVE to be at the pearly gates when this crop of assholes arrives...I will lay you odds they are not getting in.

Ah yes, the self proclaimed righteous.

How is it looking down on everyone?

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Bush's first VA budget cuts were announced the same day he gave a speech at Walter Reed extolling the virtues of wounded vets and telling them that they would be taken care of.

As someone who is the recipient of that care (currently at Walter Reed), I can tell you that no expense has been spared in the treatment of my injuries, and rehabilitation.

If I were being billed (from time of injury to now), the tab would easily be in the millions.

I see a lot of injured vets every day. I've not heard anyone mention that they felt they were being short-changed in their care or the administration of that care while they've been here.

To Amazon: Your link does not show any outline to the budgets of either the VA or DOD. Those are the departments that oversee the care of active duty servicemen and vets. Your "example" is a mere $9M within the Dept of Health and Human Services (whose budget is bigger than DOD btw).

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!