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Mitt Romney is no friend of Veterans

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Raymond

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May 28, 2012, 3:41:05 AM5/28/12
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Mitt Romney is no friend of Veterans

Romney, who is not a veteran, seems to have a 1960’s view of the VA.
Too bad Romney has never taken the time to find out how good VA
medical care actually is.

Thomas Mangan

Today mail carriers are delivering the Spring 2012 issue of Veterans’
Wellness magazine to the homes of veterans in upstate New York.

The timing couldn’t be better. Veterans’ Wellness arrived in the
mailboxes of upstate New York veterans one day after Rochester area
veterans received a large postcard in the mail from the Veterans
Outreach Center.

Almost at the same time, Rick Santorum dropped out of the race to be
the Republican presidential nominee, which leaves Mitt Romney as the
likely Republican candidate, and Mitt Romney is no friend of veterans.

Mitt Romney wants to privatize veterans’ health care benefits.Even
arch-conservative Fox News covered the story last November 11th,
Veterans Day, when Romney announced during a campaign stop in South
Carolina that he wanted to privatize the VA, by giving veterans
vouchers instead of providing care through the VA

Romney, who is not a veteran, seems to have a 1960’s view of the VA.
He must think that VA hospitals are filthy, with antiquated equipment,
and an incompetent staff. But this is 2012, and the VA has come a long
way since Vietnam; a long, long way.

Today mail carriers are delivering the Spring 2012 issue of Veterans’
Wellness magazine to the homes of veterans in upstate New York.

The timing couldn’t be better. Veterans’ Wellness arrived in the
mailboxes of upstate New York veterans one day after Rochester area
veterans received a large postcard in the mail from the Veterans
Outreach Center.

Almost at the same time, Rick Santorum dropped out of the race to be
the Republican presidential nominee, which leaves Mitt Romney as the
likely Republican candidate, and Mitt Romney is no friend of veterans.

Mitt Romney wants to privatize veterans’ health care benefits.Even
arch-conservative Fox News covered the story last November 11th,
Veterans Day, when Romney announced during a campaign stop in South
Carolina that he wanted to privatize the VA, by giving veterans
vouchers instead of providing care through the VA

Romney, who is not a veteran, seems to have a 1960’s view of the VA.
He must think that VA hospitals are filthy, with antiquated equipment,
and an incompetent staff. But this is 2012, and the VA has come a long
way since Vietnam; a long, long way.

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Too bad Romney has never taken the time to find out how good VA
medical care actually is.

According to the Washington Monthly:

In 2003 the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a
study that compared veterans’ health facilities on 11 measures of
quality with fee-for-service Medicare. On all 11 measures, the quality
of care in veterans’ facilities proved to be ‘significantly better.’

The Annals of Internal Medicine recently published a study that
compared veterans’ health facilities with commercial managed-care
systems in their treatment of diabetes patients. In seven out of seven
measures of quality, the VA provided better care.”

It seems Mitts father, George, never taught Mitt that if it isn’t
broken, don’t fix it.

If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

The two documents that Rochester area veterans received this week
highlight the two great resources available to veterans in the
Rochester area, one of which is only available locally.

Veterans’ Wellness magazine is published by VA Health Care Upstate New
York located at 919 Westfall Road Rochester, NY, which is also the
location of the VA’s Rochester Community Based Outpatient Clinic,
which is a satellite facility of the Canandaigua VA Medical Center.

The Outpatient Clinic, the Medical Center, and the Vet Center are all
outstanding facilities, where veterans encounter little or no
bureaucratic garbage during a visit. When you arrive at the Outpatient
Clinic or the Medical Center, you scan in your VA card and take a seat
for a few minutes until you can see the medical staff.

If a veteran has a prescription that needs to be refilled, they don’t
have to worry about it. The prescription arrives in the mail within a
few days.

The Vet Center is a small facility and someone from the staff greets
you personally when you arrive.

Privatizing the VA Health Care system won’t make the situation better
for veterans, it will make it worse. Have you ever tried to deal with
the bureaucracy at Blue Cross/Blue Shield, or any other private health
insurance company?

While the VA provides a nationwide resource for veterans, the Veterans
Outreach Center is a privately funded organization founded by the
members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 20.

"Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another."

Vietnam Veterans of America’s founding principle

“The Veterans Outreach Center in Rochester is the oldest community-
based veteran outreach effort in the country. It opened in 1973 to
support Vietnam Veterans coping with their wartime experiences and to
facilitate government benefits claims.

Over the years the Veterans Outreach Center has evolved to the meet
the contemporary and ever-changing need of all veterans.”

Today, the Veterans Outreach Center helps veterans of all eras --
World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Operation Iraqi
Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and those who served during
peacetime.

Rochester’s Veterans Outreach Center is a truly outstanding place that
has literally saved the life of more than one veteran. But there is no
Veterans Outreach Center in Buffalo, or anywhere else in upstate New
York. The VOC is a one of kind operation that can’t fill the needs of
all the veterans in upstate New York, much less all the veterans in
the entire country.

The VA and the VOC are complementary organizations that fill different
niches in assisting veterans. Nobody’s perfect, and no government
organization id perfect, not even the VA.

But if Mitt Romney succeeds in privatizing the VA, he’ll be guilty of
throwing the baby out with the bathwater
SEE:
http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-is-no-friend-of-veterans

Jay Herblock

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May 28, 2012, 3:53:16 AM5/28/12
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On May 28, 3:41 am, Raymond <Bluerhy...@aol.com> wrote:
> Mitt Romney is no friend of Veterans
>
> Romney, who is not a veteran, seems to have a 1960’s view of the VA.
> Too bad Romney has never taken the time to find out how good VA
> medical care actually is.

Romney is only a friend to others of his parasite millionaire
privileged class.

Middle Class Warrior

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May 28, 2012, 4:08:28 AM5/28/12
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Obama and his Va secretary, Eric Shinseki have really been improving the VA. If you are a vet, think twice about voting for Mittens. He really has no clue about the VA or foreign affairs.

Mittens avoided Vietnam by serving as a Mormon missionary to France and lived in a mansion with a chef and other staff.

Winnie Wayne Buffington

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May 28, 2012, 6:53:15 PM5/28/12
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Lora D. (previously posted as "Uno Hu," currently posting as "Jay
Herblock") is a complete crackpot. Believes 9/11 was an inside job,
has seen UFOs and black helicopters and is on a first-name basis with
ass-probing space aliens... Note that when you reply to a Proven Liar
you encourage them to continue lying.

[][][][][][]
The DemocRAT Hall Of Shame http://www.democrathallofshame.com/ asks
"Why do you always LIE?"


[Courtesy of Buster Norris]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:42:07 -0800 (PST), lorad <lora...@cs.com>
wrote:
>It was in 2001 when Cheeney and Bush crashed the airplanes into WTC.

Why are you so fucking stupid???????

LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2001
Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York
State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and
tabloids.

2002
May: Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in mailboxes in the
Midwest.

July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in
Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being
killed himself.

October: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway
Sniper Attacks, killing ten people in various locations throughout the
Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area from October 2 until they are
arrested on October 24.

2005
October 1: Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed
football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma
killing himself in the process.

2006
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of
campus, injuring nine.

An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the
San Francisco Bay area.

Federal Agents disrupt Derrick Shareef’s attack on an Illinois
shopping mall planned for December 22. His intent was to commit
“violent jihad” just before Christmas.

2007
A teenage gunman kills five bystanders and wounds four more in a
popular shopping center before being shot dead by police in the
Trolley Square shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Students at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA planned to throw pipe
bombs at people protesting the funeral of Reverend Jerry Falwell. The
students were arrested before the incident.

Authorities disrupt a plot to detonate the fuel system at John F.
Kennedy International Airport in New York City.

A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican
Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black
powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police
investigate the connection between this and a similar attack against
the British Consulate in New York in 2005.

2008
New York. A bomb goes off outside an empty military recruiting station
in Times Square.

San Diego. A pipe bomb exploded inside a Federal Express distribution
facility in San Diego. The blast did little damage to the building a
second pipe bomb was found the parking lot and was safely defused. No
one was killed or injured in the blast.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church
shooting, Jim David Adkisson kills 2 people and injures 7 in
Knoxville, Tennessee.

Dalton, Georgia An explosion at a personal injury law firm in downtown
Dalton, Ga., injured four people, including at least one lawyer, and
resulted in the death of the apparent bomber in what a federal law
enforcement spokesman described as a suicide attack.

Woodburn, Oregon. Woodburn police Capt. Tom Tennant, and Oregon State
Police bomb technician Bill Hakim were killed, and Woodburn Police
Chief Scott Russell was critically injured after a bomb exploded at
the West Coast branch of Wells Fargo in Woodburn. Customer Service
Manager Laurie Ann Perkett was taken, and later released from the
hospital after being hit by shrapnel. The explosion happened just
before 5:30 p.m. while Hakim and Tennant were trying to open the bomb,
which Hakim felt confident was not a bomb. Officers were on the scene
investigating a bomb threat called in to the bank at 10:19 a.m., when
the explosion occurred. Joshua Turnidge and his father, Bruce Turnidge
were charged with the murders.

2009
New York City A small explosive device exploded out front of a
Starbucks in New York City destroying a bench it had been placed on.
No injuries or deaths were reported in the blast that brings fears of
terrorism.

Little Rock, Arkansas Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American Muslim
opened fire on a U.S. military recruiting office. Private William Long
was killed and Private Quinton Ezeagwula was wounded.

Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempts to detonate an explosive
on an aircraft enroute from Amsterdam to Detroit. During the incident,
the suspect ignites himself on fire until he is extinguished and
overpowered by two passengers. The aircraft lands safely in Detroit
with the only injuries reported to be the suspect himself and two
others.

2010
New York City, New York, United States New York's Times Square was
evacuated after the discovery of a car bomb.[43] US government
believes radical Islamists in the Pakistani Taliban directed the plot,
and may have financed it.

Jacksonville, Florida, United States A man used a pipe bomb to attack
a mosque. The bomb exploded while about 60 Muslims were praying in the
mosque. The attack caused no injuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents

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http://www.democrathallofshame.com/

Starr Kyle Halverson

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May 28, 2012, 6:53:23 PM5/28/12
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Real name Eric Elder. A prolific liar and fraud. Eric runs the gay
blog called "Rightardia.' Card-carrying member of moveon.org, hates
America, hates himself, hates everybody. Note that when you reply to
a Proven Liar you encourage them to continue lying.

Eric Charles Elder (65)
Mary W Elder (60)
1401 Woodgrove Ct
Palm Harbor, FL 34683
(727) 789-2029 [Verizon, land line]

[][][][][][]
The DemocRAT Hall Of Shame http://www.democrathallofshame.com/ asks
"Why do you always LIE?"

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:00:02 -0800 (PST), Rightard Whitey
<eel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Dec 17, 9:22 pm, "Rightardia (Eric or Bob Elder) 1401 Woodgrove
>Court, Palm Harbor, FL 34683 (727) 789-2029"
><rightardia_sucks@your_butthole.com> wrote:
>> Summary: Real name Eric (or Bob).  A prolific liar and fraud.  Runs
>> the gay blog called "Rightardia.' Card-carrying member of moveon.org,
>> hates America, hates himself, hates everybody.  Note that when you
>> reply to a Proven Liar you encourage them to continue lying.
>> Eric Charles Elder (65)
>> Mary W Elder (60)
>> 1401 Woodgrove Ct
>> Palm Harbor, FL 34683
>> (727) 789-2029 [Verizon, land line]
>> [][][][][][]
>> The DemocRAT Hall Of Shamehttp://www.democrathallofshame.com/asks
>> "Why do you always LIE?"
>> http://rightardia.blogspot.comis Retardia's personal gay blog.
>> Everyone should avoid it because he is a LIAR:
>> [Courtesy of Buster Norris]
>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:48:12 -0800 (PST), Rightard Whitey
>> <eeld...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >The military aid is $ three billion per year. The foreign aid is a
>> >matching amount.
>> LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> $2Billion...........
>> http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s1296.pdf
>> Posted from:
>> The DemocRATs Hall of Shame!http://www.democrathallofshame.com/
>Rightardia didn't post his moron. Check the email address.

Yes, you did.

>BTW, until 2003 Israel was getting more than 3 billion a year in
>military aid.

You posted your lie in 2011, not 2003.

>In 2007, the last numbers wikipedia has, Israel
>received. 2.340 billion.

$2.34B is NOT "$ three billion per year." You lied.

You also said "the foreign aid is a matching amount."

Oops! Caught lying...

ESF (Economic Support Fund) of $120M plus NADR-ATA (Nonproliferation,
Anti-Terrorism, Demining & Related Programs) $320,000 is NOT a
"matching amount" but far less...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_military_relations#Military_aid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_aid_to_Israel.gif

>Since...

As a Proven Liar, NOBODY trusts your opinions...

>Perhaps...

Sucks to be you and it's going to get a lot worse...

Eddie Haskell

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Fuck off and get a job, you immoral low-life bottom 50 percenter leach.

http://ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html

-Eddie Haskell


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