Gop punishes ailing veterans

@suzianne said
Have you EVER been inside a VA hospital?

It's disgusting how vets are treated in this country. It's no surprise why a lot of them end up on the streets.

I have been in the local VA hospital many times.
The facility and care is excellent.
50 years ago they had a horrible rep, but not today.
Have YOU ever been in one?
Funny thing about all the drug addled homeless vets you see begging for change, all of them seem to have been some kind of black-ops Special Forces Supar=Doopar secret Commando Seal, etc. None of them were clerks cooks or truck drivers.

@jimm619 said
Our veterans?...Have they no shame
https://news.yahoo.com/total-bull-outrage-gillibrand-tester-jon-stewart-toomey-senate-blocks-burn-pit-bill-170939445.html

just another dem ploy to get pork money…

If dems really wanted to help veterans they would put up a stand alone bill, instead they add other things for their kickback schemes.

They rely on fools to buy the headlines and never question the whys/why nots. Way to go jimi, you fell for it.

“Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), who voted against the motion, called the measure "a budget gimmick that’s designed to allow hundreds of billions of dollars in additional unrelated spending, having nothing to do with veterans," according to Roll Call.“

@mott-the-hoople said
just another dem ploy to get pork money…

If dems really wanted to help veterans they would put up a stand alone bill, instead they add other things for their kickback schemes.

They rely on fools to buy the headlines and never question the whys/why nots. Way to go jimi, you fell for it.

“Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), who voted against the motion, called the ...[text shortened]... lars in additional unrelated spending, having nothing to do with veterans," according to Roll Call.“

So the measure was filled with Democrat pork projects unrelated to veteran care?
I figured there was a reason Republicans voted it down.

@vivify said
A) Screw Republicans

B) Has anyone brought up why the U.S. military uses practices known to cause cancer and respiratory illness in soldiers? Is there any accountability by the military? Shouldn't lawmakers sponsor a bill explicitly barring such practices?

A) Screw the American military industrial complex as a whole.

B) I'm more concerned with what their poison warfare is doing to innocent civilians in the countries they bombed. The soldiers, at least the recent ones, went in knowing full well that the USA was willing to expose their own to things like Agent Orange and depleted uranium nearly as readily as the "enemy". That civilian "enemy" didn't have a choice in the matter.

@shallow-blue said
A) Screw the American military industrial complex as a whole.

B) I'm more concerned with what their poison warfare is doing to innocent civilians in the countries they bombed. The soldiers, at least the recent ones, went in knowing full well that the USA was willing to expose their own to things like Agent Orange and depleted uranium nearly as readily as the "enemy". That civilian "enemy" didn't have a choice in the matter.

War is hell.

@suzianne said
Hell, Congress didn't even want to cover first responders on 9/11 until Hillary Clinton, then a senator from NY, went to Capitol Hill and raised some hell for them.

TRUE

@jj-adams said
I have been in the local VA hospital many times.
The facility and care is excellent.
50 years ago they had a horrible rep, but not today.
Have YOU ever been in one?
Funny thing about all the drug addled homeless vets you see begging for change, all of them seem to have been some kind of black-ops Special Forces Supar=Doopar secret Commando Seal, etc. None of them were clerks cooks or truck drivers.

Any of 'em navigators on B-52's?
Ya' think?

@jimm619 said
Any of 'em navigators on B-52's?
Ya' think?

You sound jealous.

@jj-adams said
I have been in the local VA hospital many times.
The facility and care is excellent.
50 years ago they had a horrible rep, but not today.
Have YOU ever been in one?
Funny thing about all the drug addled homeless vets you see begging for change, all of them seem to have been some kind of black-ops Special Forces Supar=Doopar secret Commando Seal, etc. None of them were clerks cooks or truck drivers.

Hey, B-52,.
Do you ''bring your 9's'' to The VA?
Why not try that, you would
get a nice vacation in Leavenworth.
Navigator, me arse 😠

@jimm619 said
Hey, B-52,.
Do you ''bring your 9's'' to The VA?
Why not try that, you would
get a nice vacation in Leavenworth.
Navigator, me arse 😠

Give it up, you sound like a petulant cry baby.

@jj-adams said
So the measure was filled with Democrat pork projects unrelated to veteran care?
I figured there was a reason Republicans voted it down.

WRONG
They voted, OVERWHELMINGLY, for
an identical bill last month.
https://news.yahoo.com/41-republican-senators-blocked-bill-185437623.html

Navigatin' those Great Big B-52's impair your reading ability?

''...Republican senators are largely in favor of the bill as it passed the upper chamber last month in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 84-14 vote. The House then approved the legislation by a 342-88 vote, but the Senate took up the bill again on Wednesday after the House version had some tweaks to it..''

@jj-adams said
Give it up, you sound like a petulant cry baby.

You sound like a fake....
What outfits were you with? Where?

@jimm619 said
WRONG
They voted, OVERWHELMINGLY, for
an identical bill last month.
https://news.yahoo.com/41-republican-senators-blocked-bill-185437623.html

Navigatin' those Great Big B-52's impair your reading ability?

''...Republican senators are largely in favor of the bill as it passed the upper chamber last month in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 84-14 vote. The House then appro ...[text shortened]... but the Senate took up the bill again on Wednesday after the House version had some tweaks to it..''

Key words you are ignoring:
"but the Senate took up the bill again on Wednesday after the House version had some tweaks to it.."
The "tweaks" were why the Senate killed it. Democrat porkers just couldn't help themselves.

@jimm619 said
You sound like a fake....
What outfits were you with? Where?

Not playing that game, no matter what I say you'll just claim it's a lie.

@jj-adams said
Key words you are ignoring:
"but the Senate took up the bill again on Wednesday after the House version had some tweaks to it.."
The "tweaks" were why the Senate killed it. Democrat porkers just couldn't help themselves.

What tweaks?
Where did you serve on your'B-52's?
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Veterans''
'Total bulls***': Anger boils over after Republicans block bill to help vets exposed to burn pits
Thu, July 28, 2022 at 10:09 AM
American politician
Jon Tester
United States Senator from Montana

Pat Toomey
United States Senator from Pennsylvania

Democratic lawmakers and activists, including Jon Stewart, expressed their anger and frustration on Capitol Hill on Thursday toward Republican senators who blocked a bipartisan bill that would expand health care access for military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

“This is total bulls***,” Sen. Tester, D-Mon., said at a press conference outside the Capitol on Thursday morning. “This is the worst form of politicization I’ve literally ever seen. This is total BS. We had the votes.”

Last month, the Senate voted 84-14 in favor of the legislation, called the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, which had passed the House earlier this year.

The measure would boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans suffering from exposure to the burn pits that were used in Iraq and Afghanistan to incinerate waste, with troops often using jet fuel as an accelerant..
Sen. John Tester, D-Mon., at a press conference on Capitol Hill Thursday.

Because of a parliamentary glitch involving a tax provision, it was sent back to the House, where it easily passed. But more than two dozen Republican senators, led by Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, voted Wednesday to delay its passage in order to cut some of the mandatory spending contained in the bill.ought for its passage.
“We had strong bipartisan support for this bill,”Tester said. “And at the eleventh hour, Sen. Toomey decides that he wants to rewrite the bill, change the rules and tank it. How he convinced 25 of his colleagues to change their vote, I have no idea. I mean, what the hell!”