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failedminus · Seaman Recruit Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 24

has anyone seen this about how he wants to cut the va spending for things like health care for us if he gets re elected. questionable activities

LewWaters · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:33 am Post subject:

Can't you find something a bit more up to date? This claim has been discredited many times.

Why the masquerade as a nuetral person?

failedminus · Seaman Recruit Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 24

no this is actually recent stuff that cam out in the budget report a few days ago. discredit it right now. come on do it for me. are you saying they didn't release this information saying they were cutting spending for the va?

LewWaters · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:39 am Post subject:

First off, are you even a veteran? I don't discuss veteran issues with non-veterans.

Secondly, the VA is currently spending more than it ever has in it's history.

failedminus · Seaman Recruit Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 24

yes i am a veteran. we are not discussing how much they are spending right now we are discussing how much they won't be able to spend if bush is re elected and how you are going to apparently discredit the budget report that the white house released.

Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

The Dems claim that VA funding has been cut under Bush - in fact, it is at historically high levels and has increased *twice as fast* under Bush as it did under Clinton. Spending for Veterans has gone up 41% under the Bush Administration.

Funding for Veterans up 27%, but Democrats call it a cut:
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=144

Veterans Administration Gets Record Budget For 2004:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/veterans/a/vabudget04.htm

Secretary Principi discusses VA Spending for 2005:
http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/secyspchs/budget_2005_npc.htm

War Dog · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:48 am Post subject:

Okay, failedminus, what service, years in, units/bases attached to, job in the military?

Woof!
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xsquid · Lt.Jg. Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 140

Why don't you quit harping on lies. Here's the actual va increase's for the past two presidents.

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=144

Bush is not even remotely cutting va health care spending. I spend a lot of time at the va facilities and can tell you point blank that they have more staff and it's easier to get care than it was with clintoon.

Hehe, you posted yors as I was getting this link from the other thread 3 navy.

failedminus · Seaman Recruit Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 24

i don't have to go into details but i was a mp in the army and served in afghanistan and iraq. we are not talking about 2004 we are talking about if bush is re elected what he plans to do in the year 2005

War Dog · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:53 am Post subject:

failedminus · Seaman Recruit Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 24

3 years 4 months, 82nd Mp co and 108th mp co at ft. bragg north carolina

xsquid · Lt.Jg. Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 140

The projected spending for 2005 is on the factcheck scale.

Greenhat · LCDR Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 405

failedminus · Seaman Recruit Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 24

it did effect me. i was supposed to get out aug 23 2003 but got out dec 20 2003. they lifted the stop loss in july and extended me 4 months so i could clear and everything

xsquid · Lt.Jg. Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 140

Here's the first part or the article on factcheck. You lefties should have been yelling when clinton was in and my appointments would get cancelled after waiting 6 months for them and all I heard about was staff cuts.