In response to ABBOT TO OBAMA: "YOU PROMISED V.A. HOSPITAL.DELIVER."
It is true the RGV needs a VA hospital desperately. However, it is not President Obama who is the stumbling block but the Republican Party!!!Governor Abbott needs to communicate his displeasure regarding a Veterans Hospital in the RGV with Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, and the rest of the Republican Party; especially those who have never served in the military Armed Forces.
The majority of Republican GOP voted against seven bills to help USA military veterans!!
DETAILS OF VETERAN'S BILLS REJECTED BY REPUBLICANS
H.R. 466 – Wounded Veteran Job Security Act – This bill would actually provide job security for veterans who are receiving medical treatment for injuries suffered while fighting in defense of their country. It would prohibit employers from terminating employees who miss work while receiving treatment for a service-related disability.
H.R. 1168 -- Veterans Retraining Act – This bill would provide for assistance to help veterans who are currently unemployed with their expenses while retraining for the current job market.
H.R. 1171 – Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization – This bill would reauthorize programs in support of homeless veterans, to assist them with job training, counseling, and placement services through the Department of Veterans Affairs through 2014.
H.R. 1172 -- Requiring List on VA Website of Organizations Providing Scholarships for Veterans which does nothing more than direct the Department of Veterans Affairs to include information about scholarships for veterans.
H.R. 1293 -- Disabled Veterans Home Improvement and Structural Alteration Grant Increase Act of 2009 – Here’sanother bill in support of those who have fought for their country, passed by House Democrats and blocked from becoming law by Republicans.
This would increase the amount paid by the VA to disabled veterans for necessary home structural improvements from $4,100 to $6,800 for those who are more than 50% disabled, and from $1,200 to $2,000 who are less than 50%, disabled. This means, if a veteran lost the use of his legs in service of his country, the country will pay for the wheelchair ramp so that he can live at home.
By the way, the last time this ceiling was lifted was in 1992. There isn't even a fiscal reason for being against this bill, as the total cost of this bill, according to CBO estimates, would be a “whopping” $20 million. That's about a quarter (25 cents) per family of four.
H.R. 1803 -- Veterans Business Center Act – This bill would set up a Veterans Business Center program within the Small Business Administration, which would specialize in such programs as grants for service-disabled veterans, help them develop business plans and secure business opportunities. In other words, folks, it would create jobs and offer opportunities those who have fought in defense of our country.
H.R. 2352 – Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act – This bill essentially combines a number of other bills that Republicans had blocked in the Senate previously, and adds a few elements. The bill would again establish a Veterans Business Center Program; .... it would establish a Military Entrepreneurs Program
In February of 2014 Senate Republicans Betray U.S. Vets by Blocking Veterans Benefits Bill by using a procedural maneuver to invoke the 60 vote rule. the final vote to waive the budget point of order faile, 56-41. Only two Republicans (Sen. Dean Heller and Sen. Jerry Moran) joined with Democrats on the vote.
The Republican Party will do anything to deny President Obama a "win" even if it is a WIN for our Veterans.
Also, the bill would have authorized the construction of 27 new clinics and medical facilities, and it would have provided tuition assistance to post-9/11 veterans.
Where was the outraged Attorney General Greg Abbott when all this was happening?
Flashback: Republicans Block VA Benefits!
Republicans, conservative talking heads, etc "Love war and its industry" but cry "it is too expensive" to help those veterans who return wounded, maimed, and totally in need of help.
Republican Senator Bernie Sanders is correct; "If you think it is too expensive to support our returning military veterans, DON'T sent them to war!!
Senator John Cornyn Doesn't Support Our Vets
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Flashback: Republicans Block VA Benefits
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WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY?
Every bill above would be abused by veterans like Bobby the blimp. Free loaders that cheat the system.
I foresee Gov. Abbot as no delivery. It takes a full force for delivery action.
The blimp wrote this, he wants the government to give veteran's everything. Some deserve it but most do not. Stop getting drunk at the V.A. and wallow in your sorrows, the world owes no one anything….play the cards we are dealt and stop sticking that hand out…..peeling potatoes and inflating tires in the military should not get you the benefits that vets that actually saw the battlefield.
No one wanted ObamaCare but but the great Obama shoved that down our throat by using his executive order power, he can do the same thing here…but decides not to. So stop blaming Republican Senators. Obama can do it, but he is playing the politics game with veterans.
It is a knee jerk reaction to defend Obama and condemn Republicans. The Democrat defense apparatus goes into full swing anytime a Republican does anything that might be recognized by the voters as worthy of merit.
The Republican Party is a blessing to the Naco Nation. The Party will now put those people to work . Pick cotton, and dig ditches.
The RGV doesn't have a VA hospital because none of our elected officials; now or in the past, had the interest or the balls to support a VA hospital. Politics gets VA hospitals....and this is an example of why we can't trust our elected officials.
Can you trust a Politician in a Cat House ?
Greg Abbott from the Republican party together with Rick Perry and all those politicians in control in Texas, have had all the years they have subjected Texas to their radical conservatism, to have done something about the VA hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley needed but they said nothing and did less than nothing and now trying to blame the President is the lowest hipocritical stage where republicans stand today, pointing the finger when it is under their administrations under which Veterans were ignored as well as the American Worker and the Student and the Woman, because that's all the party of Greg Abbott is dedicated to doing, nothing for the Veteran nor the people, only for their political contributors now running the American Congress.
Thank the gods for ridding Texas of Rick Perry and his deranged political crap. He "thinks" he can be prez?
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