Random Politics & Religion #34

Something something I pretended to read it something something.

More things to point out.

The bill was proposed by a republican. It passed the republican controlled house numerous times and was denied in the democratic senate numerous times.

And the three dissenting votes were against the funding. Congress isn't allowed to add to the federal deficit without subtracting money from somewhere else. By declaring the vote as an emergency, they were able to bypass this. These three Congressmen attempted to make a point of order against the emergency designation but Sanders waived the point of order and their dissenting votes ensued. They were voting against more debt. They wanted it to be funded properly.

That's a laughable reason when you look at how much they are adding to the debt right now.

Isakson acknowledged that the bill isn't paid for but said he is working with Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to add funding for the bill that would likely balloon the deficit. The White House has argued for funding the bill by cutting other programs.

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The Choice program allowed veterans who lived more than 40 miles from a VA facility or had to wait more than 30 days for an appointment to have access to private care, but the program was time limited and Congress has struggled to come up with money for extensions.

The program was again due to run out of funding May 31, but the VA said there was enough money remaining to keep it in operation until Trump signed the VA Mission Act.

The new bill called for $5.2 billion in funding to keep the existing Choice program in operation for a year while the VA worked through reforms to consolidate the seven private-care options into one system while eliminating the 30-day, 40-mile restrictions.

However, a Government Accountability Office report on the Veterans Choice Program released Monday cast doubt on the VA's ability to implement the reforms called for under the VA Mission Act.

The GAO said veterans could wait up to 70 days for private-care appointments under the Choice program because of poor communication between the VA and its facilities and "an insufficient number, mix, or geographic distribution of community providers."

Your nihilism is above 9000. We need down at a 10.

But Fone majored in nihilism.

Checkmate, Repuglitardicans.

But hey it’s better because it’s not Obama.

fone, dont bother clicking it. too much text and a waste of your time.

It never was Obama. You keep trying to give him credit for something he wasn't involved in. Get off the man's *** for once.

The rest of your post was just a bunch of "maybes or mights." Most of which pointed to the poor performance and communication of the VA, which has gone ignored long enough. Again, let the problems be brought to light so they can be dealt with.

fone, dont bother clicking it. too much text and a waste of your time.

It is pretty obvious you just want to credit Trump and ignore Obama, but it doesn't work that way.

/sings IT'S LIKE RAAAAAIIIIIAAAAAAAN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY!!!!

this morning, driving in to work, I saw a car with four bumper stickers across their rear bumper....

COEXIST IMPEACH TRUMP NOT MY PRESIDENT TOLERANCE

of course I immediately burst into song....

/sings IT'S LIKE RAAAAAIIIIIAAAAAAAN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY!!!!

thanks random knucklehead...

Its either Obama created the program and Trump has tried to make improvements, or Obama did nothing and Trump has done nothing. It is pretty obvious you just want to credit Trump and ignore Obama, but it doesn't work that way.

Its either Obama created the program and Trump has tried to make improvements, or Obama did nothing and Trump has done nothing. It is pretty obvious you just want to credit Trump and ignore Obama, but it doesn't work that way.

Congress isn't allowed to add to the federal deficit without subtracting money from somewhere else.

It never was Obama. You keep trying to give him credit for something he wasn't involved in. Get off the man's *** for once.

The rest of your post was just a bunch of "maybes or mights." Most of which pointed to the poor performance and communication of the VA, which has gone ignored long enough. Again, let the problems be brought to light so they can be dealt with.

Lol, it has already been shown that the bill was introduced by a republican and a democrat, so how exactly do the republicans get all the credit?

Also, this is completely made up. Some states have this rule, but the federal gov't does not.

You seem to miss the point which was addressing Slore’s perception that the “Left and Obama never did anything for the Vets while Trump has being doing an excellent job”; then citing programs that were enacted in the Obama era and attributing them to Trump.

But clearly you aren’t trying to hear that.

That absolutely do have these rules, but the Senate has many ways of skirting the rule. If a Congress wants to avoid being fiscally disciplined, they've come up with numerous ways around it. I will concede that expecting them to be fiscally responsible is almost out of the question at this point.

Oh, the Republicans are quite fiscally responsible. Whenever there is a Democratic president.

That's a pretty terrible attempt at changing your stance. I take it you concede and we can end this discussion

The VA system has always been screwed, I know this for fact because I got out in 2005 and have used it since. I do like the new option to see your private doctor if wait is over 90 days, which for ortho it always is.