Posted by
Garnet92 on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:52:40 PM
The Commander-in-chief, Screwing Our Veterans
Those of you who’ve visited my blog before are well aware of the low esteem in which I hold Barack Hussein Obama. Right before I published the next post (Egad, He’s Nekkid), I decided to take a quick swing through my favorite news sources to check out any new news. I’m glad I did, because one item I found on Hot Air has really pushed me over the edge.
Obama has determined that he can generate $540 million dollars for the treasury if he requires reimbursement from private insurance companies who are insuring veterans who have received service-related injuries. Obama refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.
Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries.
The Obama administration explains that it wants private insurers who sell coverage to vets to pay their fair share, but there are two things wrong with that argument:
First, the United States has a moral obligation to provide treatment for those wounded in the service of their country. That’s a commitment we make to the people who enlist in military, and should not get outsourced. This is chiseled in granite as far as I’m concerned.
Second, vets with service-related injuries and illnesses can only get third-party insurance because insurers know the US will cover all service-related medical treatment through the VA. If the government reneges on that commitment, it will put insurers on the hook for veterans already enrolled — but it will make it a lot harder for the next set of veterans to get insured. It will also raise costs to the rest of the insured by those companies, when the burden should fall on all Americans equally. Another example of a short-sighted plan by a clueless politician that will yield consequences that no one wants.
If the country needs more revenue streams, it should find some other way to find them than on the backs of our wounded veterans. They’ve sacrificed enough.
By the way, that $540 million that Obama figures to save by screwing our veterans is $110 million less than the “Porkulus” bill appropriates for the Digital-to-analog television converter box program ($650M). Is that program more important to the country than our veterans?
"This matter has far more serious ramifications than the President is imagining," concluded Commander Rehbein.
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Egad! He’s Nekkid!
Thank God! Finally some citizens are beginning to come to their senses. Here are two new polls from respected pollsters, both showing the same trend. Here’s the Pew poll (published March 16, 2009):
Source: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
It’s interesting that the polling period was a little over a month and Obama’s approval score dropped 5 points while his disapproval score increased by 9 points.
Those results from Pew track nicely with another poll, just taken, and from another big-time pollster. The latest Rasmussen report for March 16th:
You may note that the Rasmussen report from one week ago was posted on Pesky Truth (just page down and you’ll see it) and in the week since that edition, Obama’s approval index dropped 2 more points to a +4. Last week the difference was +6 points. The index is measuring the difference between respondents who “strongly approve” and those who “strongly disapprove.” His approval rating is dropping while his disapprovals are increasing. At the present pace, those disapproving will equal those approving by the end of March.
So, it appears that some are beginning to experience “buyer’s remorse.”
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The following is a Pesky Truth editorial directed at citizens who voted for Obama:
What the HELL did you expect?
The man shucked and jived his way through two senate jobs. He did little to distinguish himself in the state senate and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the U.S. Senate. He was an ineffective “community organizer,” an attorney who never personally tried a case, and he’s never managed ANYTHING, not a Dairy Queen, not even a lemonade stand.
These statements are not the loony rantings of some redneck racist, they are the FACTS – look ‘em up.
You Obama voters did this to OUR COUNTRY, your country and mine. You did this to your fellow citizens and now you’re suffering pangs of buyer’s remorse?
Why are you surprised? WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?
Maybe … just maybe, you’ve finally realized that he is not really the Messiah, not really the country’s infallible Savior. Maybe, just maybe, his brain is not the massive intellect that you thought it was. Maybe his unintelligible rambling when speaking without a teleprompter is disappointing. Maybe his embrace of ex-lobbyists and earmarks is troubling – after all, didn’t he promise otherwise? It’s a rude awakening, isn’t it?
Shouldn’t his lack of any substantive accomplishments (other than Editor at the Harvard Law Review) have been a warning? Did you miss the signs? Did you see no evidence?
Or, did you just choose to ignore the evidence that was available?
WE know the answer, even if you won’t admit it. You tuned out anything that was remotely negative, choosing to attribute the negative evidence to illiterate, backwoods hicks who just didn’t appreciate a half-black metrosexual with a gift for reading a speech. After all, anyone who didn’t want Obama to be president had to be racist, right?
It’s going to be hard, very hard, for you to admit that you made a mistake – a giant, plus-sized, jumbo, super grandé mistake. A mistake that could cost my children and grandchildren – and yours – not only their hard-earned income and countless freedoms, but in all likelihood, the country that millions of our countrymen fought and died for.
If Obama gets his way, our grandchildren will never experience the freedoms that I enjoyed as a child, won’t feel the pride when our flag is paraded by, won’t experience the love that we all felt for our United States, and will never again see the U.S. as a world leader in anything but unemployment and taxes.
It is clearly time for you to admit your mistake and show some remorse. There is only one way to pay your debt to society now, and that is to help get Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, et al out of Congress. And after that, get Obama out of the White House.
Then, and only then, will you be forgiven.
And finally, on a lighter note:
A little old lady is walking down the street dragging two large plastic garbage bags behind her.
One of the bags rips, and every once in a while a $20 bill falls out onto the sidewalk.
Noticing this, a policeman stops her, and says, “Ma'am, there are $20 bills falling out of your bag.”
“Oh, really? Darn!” says the little old lady, “I'd better go back, and see if I can find them. Thanks for telling me.”
“Whoa, now, not so fast,” says the cop. “How did you get all that money?” “You didn't steal it, did you?”
“Oh, no”, says the little old lady. “You see, my back yard is right next to the football stadium parking lot, on game days, a lot of fans come and pee through the fence into my flower garden.”
“So, I stand behind the fence with my hedge clippers. Each time some guy sticks his weenie through the fence, I say, '$20 or off it comes.'”
“Well, that seems only fair,” laughs the cop. “OK? Good luck! Oh, by the way, what's in the other bag?”
“Well, you know”, says the little old lady, “not everybody pays.”