An Embarrassing and/or Proud Moment for Vets, Maybe.

[bodecea]

I too am a vet...and know better.

so am i, but it doesn't embarrass me.

why should it? vets are people, too.

thanks...as Am I a vet, and I am FAR from embarrassed...

So Could it be that Bodie is embarrassed to be a Vet of the Armed Forces?

From the diatribe? I'd bet that was the case.

Well, your guess would be wrong. And I guessed right on that, Syncophant.

 

[bodecea]

he could have spoke without the long and useless introduction. all he had to say was he was an american citizen and voter but he seemed to enjoy the appaluse etc...and i love the addition of him being a disabled vet...i could help but noticed as he puffed out his chest and walked out to his wife...what his disablity was?

could it have been mental? i am serious ..he said he was a disabled vet...looked fine and dandy to me...

A visual will not determine. I take his word for it that he is a disabled vet. But having said that, he is on government health care right now. Why didn't he talk about that if it is so horrible?

 

[DiveCon]

There are more than a million of us disabled vets alive today, I would image. We may end up with more than 20,000 from the wars in this decade alone. The overall number will continue drop as more than a 1,000 vets (overwhelmingly WWII) die daily. Those of you who have dissed vets on USMB are foolish, foolish simpletons.

The speaker had every right to speak his mind. Being a vet gave him no moral legitimacy than any American, veteran or not, to speak his peace. I th aought he was an idiot, but that is the great thing in America -- we can and will speak our beliefs almost invariably without political reprisal. However, that does not mean that we can speak them without rebuttal.

The VA is sending disability checks to more than 181,000 veterans of just Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hmmmm, government health care.

disability checks are not healthcare

 

[Toome]

Though I'm an Army veteran, all I have to say is:

Oooooorah!!

 

[Zona]

The VA is sending disability checks to more than 181,000 veterans of just Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hmmmm, government health care.

disability checks are not healthcare

Tricare is.

 

[bodecea]

Hmmmm, government health care.

disability checks are not healthcare

Tricare is.

And we like our Tricare and would not give it up.

 

[bodecea]

Get REAL Bodie...He was asking a rational Question. he IS concerned about the Government having more power than they are Constitutionally mandated to have. they have NO BUSINESS in healthcare...it's an Individual descision/responsibility.

But does that escape you? Healthcare is NOT a right.

Um...when was the QUESTION? That's right, at the very end of his little speech and then he walked away...maybe he didn't even want an answer. If I was waiting to ask my question at that town hall, and they ran out of time, I'd be pissed at Mr. Speechifier.

The man spoke his MIND...why should he wait for an answer when he knew it would be parsing or an outright LIE...

But then Statists like YOU enjoy this kinda thing, don't you?

Where's the LIAR Icon, because it befits you, Bodie. You thrive off of LIES. it makes your little heart (or facsimile thereof), go pitty-pat.
This is a trash thread, and YOU know it.

Bumping for Tha syncophanT to answer where I lied.

 

[Zona]

disability checks are not healthcare

Tricare is.

And we like our Tricare and would not give it up.

Agreed, but don't even say this. This fuels idiots to question whether or not that is even in question. Its not of course.

 

[bodecea]

Tricare is.

And we like our Tricare and would not give it up.

Agreed, but don't even say this. This fuels idiots to question whether or not that is even in question. Its not of course.

Oh, don't mind me...I'm just an angry lib....

 

[geauxtohell]

His status as a vet was anciallary to the issue at hand.

As a simple questioner, he really didn't ask any pertinant questions. Just a lot of hyperbole.

 

[bodecea]

His status as a vet was anciallary to the issue at hand.

As a simple questioner, he really didn't ask any pertinant questions. Just a lot of hyperbole.

The final touch is when he FINALLY asked his question, he stomped off without waiting for an answer. I know the video cut off then, I wonder if the Congressman pointed out "Hey! Don't you want to hear the answer to your question after all that?"

 

[geauxtohell]

His status as a vet was anciallary to the issue at hand.

As a simple questioner, he really didn't ask any pertinant questions. Just a lot of hyperbole.

The final touch is when he FINALLY asked his question, he stomped off without waiting for an answer. I know the video cut off then, I wonder if the Congressman pointed out "Hey! Don't you want to hear the answer to your question after all that?"

In his caption in the video (which he uploaded) he denied being a "plant". Whether he was or was not a plant, he certainly had an agenda going into the meeting. That Nancy Pelosi/swastika comment was straight hyperbole.

Other than that, he didn't ask any policy based questions. Just accusations.

So regardless of his stance as a veteran, he certainly isn't helping the public debate over this issue. No wonder these townhalls are giant cluster fucks.

 

[bodecea]

His status as a vet was anciallary to the issue at hand.

As a simple questioner, he really didn't ask any pertinant questions. Just a lot of hyperbole.

The final touch is when he FINALLY asked his question, he stomped off without waiting for an answer. I know the video cut off then, I wonder if the Congressman pointed out "Hey! Don't you want to hear the answer to your question after all that?"

In his caption in the video (which he uploaded) he denied being a "plant". Whether he was or was not a plant, he certainly had an agenda going into the meeting. That Nancy Pelosi/swastika comment was straight hyperbole.

Other than that, he didn't ask any policy based questions. Just accusations.

So regardless of his stance as a veteran, he certainly isn't helping the public debate over this issue. No wonder these townhalls are giant cluster fucks.

I don't know. I would like to think that 90%+ of the meeting was useful Q & A...but that's not interesting enough to video tape, or at least to show the video tape.

 

[Emma]

He rants against government-run healthcare, then tells us he's a disabled vet.

You can't make this shit up

 

[DiveCon]

He rants against government-run healthcare, then tells us he's a disabled vet.

You can't make this shit up

only you got it wrong

he started out telling you he was a vet
and he didnt rant, he stated he didnt want a GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER of healthcare
you totally took what he said out of context

and the bolded, you just did

 

[JakeStarkey]

The VA is sending disability checks to more than 181,000 veterans of just Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hmmmm, government health care.

disability checks are not healthcare

Hmmm. . . you never visited a VA Primary Care clinic? First, yes, disability checks are a form of health care (financial support), and second, disability almost always leads to VA health care for the vets, and in some cases, for the spouses.

Very effective, very worthwhile, and much better than the emergency clinic. You see, dive, we earned it, and I am thrilled that you help pay for it.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The vet ranted, dive, just like you do here.

 

[DiveCon]

Hmmmm, government health care.

disability checks are not healthcare

Hmmm. . . you never visited a VA Primary Care clinic? First, yes, disability checks are a form of health care (financial support), and second, disability almost always leads to VA health care for the vets, and in some cases, for the spouses.

Very effective, very worthwhile, and much better than the emergency clinic. You see, dive, we earned it, and I am thrilled that you help pay for it.

and both of which they EARNED

and the disabilty is not healthcare, even though healthcare is also provided

 

[DiveCon]

The vet ranted, dive, just like you do here.

you are a fucking moron

 

[L.K.Eder]

another "little history lesson" about the nazis by some asshole.

the only nazi comparison i can make here is the reaction of the crowd to key words by someone making a speech full of shit.

example : "socialism" crowd goes whhhhhhhhooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooo