So, a ‘systemic’ problem at VA health facilities has suddenly become Obama’s focus?
A problem he’s known about since November, 2008.
His ‘dedication’ seems to grow the closer we get to November mid-term elections…
…and no doubt will diminish, once that event has passed.
…and they say it won’t happen with Obamacare?
Aging and ailing veterans were subjected the indignities of neglect…
…so government worker PIGS could feed out of the ‘bonus trough’.
That’s the best Obama could do, for those who merit a ‘sacred trust‘?
Can’t wait to see what O’care civilians who don’t merit a sacred trust are in store for…
How can ANYONE say they were blind-sided by VA health care mismanagement?
Just now they’re discovering 70% of VA facilities hid wait-times?
Government-run healthcare has been a huge failure in every country that’s tried it.
Believing it could be done better ‘because we’re Americans’ ignores an ugly reality…
…those who champion such ‘beliefs’ are mirror images of European counterparts, who have centuries of failed ‘government does it better’ fantasy as their history.
No surprise, then, that the VA has failed – and that Obamacare will fail – in the same way here as it has in other countries. It’s being run by the same European mentality.
A mentality that ignores an inconvenient truth…
…’government-run’ means never being held accountable.
Know this…the numbers are far worse than what we’re being told…
Yet another government-issued report reveals 100,000 veterans are suffering long wait times to see a doctor, and advises 64,000 never saw a doctor despite waiting 10 years.
You can bet they’re hiding an ugly reality…it’s more like ten-twenty times that amount.
Pushing a failed Euro-version gov’t-run healthcare system ‘American-style’…
…simply means these idiots will throw even more money at it.
Open message to those enrolled in Obamacare…
…YE BE WARNED!
As midterm elections draw near, the GOP is energized…that ensures voter turn-out.
Democrats, on the other hand, are gloomy…which portends low turn-out for them.
What’s a Socialist Dictator King President (bent on transforming America) to do?
Obviously, energize the gloomy. The Democrat base needs to rally Hispanics, youth, Blacks, single women, union workers, low-incomers, and the elderly vote.
Rally Hispanics? Talk ‘amnesty’, encourage illegal border crossings, discourage deportation, and then sit back and wait for the GOP to condemn the status quo.
Rally youth? Promise executive action for student loan forgiveness, and conveniently tie it to class warfare…by promising to fund the plan with ‘closed loopholes for millionaires’.
Then, sit back and wait for Republicans to fight legislation that hikes taxes.
Until November, we can expect to see more of the same tripe for single women, the elderly, etc. It’s all they have – they can’t campaign on nonexistent policy successes.
Say what you will about billionaires (after all, Harry Reid does), but there’s often a huge gap between their contributions…some donate to the future, and others to themselves.
The Koch Brothers just donated $25 million to the United Negro College Fund. Tom Steyer set up a $2 million fund for victims of climate change ‘extreme weather events’.
First – there’s a big difference between ‘donating’ and ‘setting up a fund’. The former means ‘giving’, and the latter means ‘keeping’…until they decide ‘giving’ is warranted.
Then there’s the ‘return’ factor – providing merit awards to undergraduate and graduate students without obligation (to Charles and David Koch) stands as its own reward…
…they gave to a college funding program, whose managers decide its distribution.
Whereas, for Steyer (heavily invested in green energy), his climate-change fund is all about, well, climate change…which, obviously, screams ‘return-on-investment.’
And the only beneficiaries of said fund are obliged to believe in – yup – climate change.
Those who sneer and say the Koch Brothers improve their image by donating, are free to do so, but isn’t that what ‘philanthropy’ does? Didn’t Steyer have that opportunity?
At least, the Kochs burnished their image…Steyer burnished his green-energy portfolio.
Besides…
…would it be ungracious to note $2 million wouldn’t pay for bathroom fixtures if just one of San Fran-based Steyer’s glitzy neighbors was hit by a ‘climate-change’ wildfire…
…compared to the 3,000 kids getting Koch Brothers scholarships?
No amount of snide remarks changes the equation…
Once again, Liberals donate to themselves…and Libertarians donate to the future.
Once again, Obama uses punctuation emphatics, trying to shut down his critics…
“…Regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American soldier back if he’s held in captivity. Period. Full stop.”
Sure, if an American soldier is held captive, we should try to recover the soldier.
But…if the soldier renounced his citizenship…he’s no longer an American.
And, if after renouncing citizenship, he deserts to the Taliban…he is now Taliban.
Nothing the media or Obama can say, refutes that logic.
Obama traded five Taliban killers…for a deserter who became Taliban.
If Bergdahl renounced, no American was exchanged in this charade of a swap.
PERIOD. FULL STOP.
Open borders…the gift that keeps on giving for Democrats.
We know that immigrants typically vote Democrat when they first get into America. The Hispanic demographics tell us they embrace bigger government and social safetynets.
Which is why Democrats demand illegal immigrants get amnesty…to become voters.
For Democrats, the challenge is to get illegal immigrants into ‘GOP-stronghold’ states (ie, California, a reliably ‘blue state’ doesn’t need more immigrants to remain Democrat).
Then, it turns the demographics against Republicans in those key states.
So, it looks like Obama has chosen the ‘busing’ solution for strategic distribution.
Illegal immigrants caught entering Texas are being sent by the feds to holding facilities in Arizona…you can bet other reliably Republican states are seeing the same influx.
Then as holding systems overload, either courts will be inundated with ‘humanitarian crisis’ suits demanding their release, or Obama will do it illegally…and very publicly.
(A typical Democrat ‘heart-string tugger’…great for get-out-the-vote election years.)
Heart-strings. Believe this…it’s no accident those being sent to Arizona are kids.
The administration says the ‘Arizona solution’ is due to strained conditions in Texas, but we can’t help but wonder…and marvel…at the media’s failure to ask one question…
…if they crossed into Texas illegally, why not send them to Mexico’s holding centers?
(After all, even for those considered to be geographically challenged, a quick check of world maps, or Google, confirms…Mexico’s the only country bordering Texas.)
Wouldn’t busing kids back to their homeland be the most humanitarian thing to do?
What’s more ‘humanitarian’ for those kids…busing them 1100+ miles to Arizona…
…and further from their homeland and parents…
…or 5 miles back to their homeland – in Mexico?
Obama is throwing a lot of wood on the election fire, much of it threatening Democrats.
Would it be too cynical to suggest a set-up?
Democrats, especially in the Senate, are running scared. They want distance; many of them are already trying to position themselves as mavericks (as if it mattered, but, hey).
Wouldn’t it be just like Obama to talk tough on coal and climate change in general, then cave to…Democrats, who ‘stand tough against Obama, and tall for (fill in the state)’?
Then in Nov elections, Joe Electorate once again votes for the ‘tough guy who stood up to Obama’, who then runs back to Washington DC to (you guessed it) toe the Party line.
(The visual? At home with constituents – a WOLF. On Capitol Hill n D.C. – a SHEEP)
Why else would Obama take Democrat-alienating stances 5 months before elections?
Just askin…
Word is, after deserting his post Bergdahl left a note renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
If true, Obama just turned loose 5 Taliban killers…in exchange for 1 Taliban traitor?
Which, when it comes right down to it, sorta describes Obama’s foreign policy to a ‘t’.
Somewhere in Moscow, Putin is laughing his ass off.
Talk about incompetent.
More negative stories are coming out about Bergdahl.
If this exchange was used to get more Taliban in place for eradication, it was worth it. If it was used as an expedient means to drown stories of VA failures, well, so be it.
Either way, it’s a down side for Democrats.
Their leader just released 5 of the most deadly Taliban back onto the world’s streets, and if it wasn’t to kill them (and more), but only to stop the VA-story bleeding…
…Bergdahl’s iffy status and the fact Americans died looking for him doesn’t bode well.
And God forbid anyone else should die at these Taliban hands in the future.
Even a fawning Obama media couldn’t keep that news off the front pages.