Here's some that should be big for you Tim as a veteran... Added 4.6 billion USD to the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals.
Under the Obama administration, the VA has also put a priority on Agent Orange victims as well as focused on soldiers and Vets with PTSD. Reversed the policy of barring media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base. Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America's Veterans -----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:45 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Good news from NY today - NDAA He signed the Lily Ledbetter Act on his first day in office as I recall. open.gov was a start. Like a number of his other issues, not enough. I count health care reform as positive, personally. Though not enough and not done properly. Sotomayor (sp?) was a good appointment. The stimulus was a good idea until it was compromised out of existence. He did save Detroit, though I have to say I was against that at the time. I dislike military intervention but Libya was probably a good idea. State Department internet-in-a-suitcase thing was good. Student loan interest was good. The theme here though is that he has tried to compromise with people who were determined to undermine him. Negatives: Guantanamo Use of drones Wasted lots of money on Wall Street bailouts. SOPA/PIPA Shrug. I put this next to Romney, who is a total tool as far as I can tell..... Republicans have wagged the dog on one bogus issue after another. Why do we have to argue that voting rights are a good idea all over again? Why is it a good idea to mandate vaginal probes? Why do people think it's bad that Planned Parenthood saved my freaking life and maybe it cost the feds forty cents or so? (I'd have to go look up how much of their primary care costs get a federal subsidy? It wasn't much because I did pay about fifty bucks for the visit but nobody else wanted to deal with it and you know what, if I don't get the prescription I do get blood clots and those will absolutely kill you about mmm twenty to thirty percent of the time...the exact number is discussable. Point is, Romney is not only a tool, he's a tool who parrots a platform that endangers my dignity, my health and my life. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:36 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a hard time identifying anything he's done good, fill me in. > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Eric Roberts < > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > > > > There is still a large contingent on the left that is none too happy > > with Obama and his continuance of the Bush policies....but yes, > > there is also > a > > good number who think that Obama's shit doesn't stink. He is > > donesome really good stuff...but he has also really screwed the pooch hard. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:43 PM > > To: cf-community > > Subject: Re: Good news from NY today - NDAA > > > > > > The funniest thing about the loudest of the party loyalists is that > > they often don't understand their own parties beliefs, and just > > parrot > whatever > > they are told. From what I can see these are the ones that either > blindly > > follow the party of their parents, or blindly rebelled by choosing > > the other party. > > > > The differences I see between parties at this point are pretty small > > in > my > > mind. > > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Judah McAuley > > <ju...@wiredotter.com > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > Yeah, I've seen "anti-war left now pro-warrior president left" bit > > > quite a lot. It really bugs me. The same folks who would be > > > demonizing Bush or McCain for taking out Bin Laden and then > > > pushing the fact during an election are trumpeting the same thing being done by Obama. > > > On the other hand, you've got all the guys on the right who are > > > trying to shame Obama for pointing out that he made the call to > > > take out Bin Laden when Bush was all 9/11 all the time in 2004 and > > > showing up in a flight suit on an aircraft carrier under a Mission > > > Accomplished banner. > > > > > > So many people are seemingly into it to support "their guy" > > > instead of trying to support right and wrong and making things better. > > > > > > Judah > > > > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:04 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Not a big fan of salon generally, but recently I have noticed > > > > that they > > > are > > > > very upfront when dealing with the difference between reporting > > > > facts, > > > and > > > > offering opinion. They have even talked about how the formerly > > > > anti-war left has turned into the pro-warrior president left. > > > > That was an interesting stor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:350818 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
