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Posted by: ybdogsct 4 months, 1 week ago

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McCain has repeatedly voted to save tax cuts for the rich, rather than provide veterans with adequate healthcare. McCain voted against eliminating increased fees and co-payments for veterans by eliminating corporate tax breaks. McCain was 1 of only 13 Republicans to vote against adding $400 million for inpatient and outpatient care for veterans.

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not2needy4 months, 1 week ago

My husband has to pay co-payments to the VA, and if he's late, they attach his SS check. Thanks McCain! The more i know about this man the less i like him.
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  quackpot4 months, 1 week ago
  
  hey - $400 million could support a full day of destruction in Iraq - now what is more important, Veterans or blowing things up?
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    Radiofreeeuropa4 months, 1 week ago
    
    McCain's voting record remarkably does not indicate concern for Veterans issues. What he means by claiming he is strong on defense is he is strong on allowing defense contractors - whose lobbyists scratch his back- free access to pilfer and loot the American economy while turning his back on those who served the nation honorably. McCain seems to think Veterans should simply quit whining about their poor treatment in decaying facilities and try to find a rich person to shack up with. Americans want their promises made to veterans honored. Republicans apparently do not.
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  engineer4 months, 1 week ago
  
  McCain has voted against everything to help the average American and against every veterans' bill
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  not2needy4 months, 1 week ago
  
  As long as there are republicans in the WH, the VA will never be upgraded.
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    ecotourusa4 months, 1 week ago
    
    N2N-
    not all Republicans are of the same fiber...
    Ron Paul has been steadfast against this war from the get-go!
    http://www.dailypaul.com
    and voting for Hillary or Obama will bring on more of the same. They are governed by special interests; corporations who run this country.
    REAL CHANGE = RON PAUL.
    Of course, this would require change on our parts, as well...are you willing?
    Or, does Main Stream Media control your destiny when deciding on a candidate?
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      GHOSTWHOWALKS4 months, 1 week ago
      
      Nope. That's why I voted for Ron Paul and will do so again.
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        ecotourusa4 months, 1 week ago
        
        If I have to write the vote in...there is no one out there I would consider other than Dr. Ron Paul.
        he released his book today:
        "The Revolution: a Manifesto"
        already on top seller list with Amazon.
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        GHOSTWHOWALKS4 months, 1 week ago
        
        Bought it.
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        Radiofreeeuropa4 months, 1 week ago
        
        I agree he is a good man. But I read his policy statements and strongly disagree with many of his issues which of course were not even brought up in the debates. I was educated in public schools for instance and I know my Dad worked 2 jobs all his life to get by. Sending my sisters and I to private schools would not have been an option for him. Had there been no public education, how many of us would be able to read this article today. Reforms are needed in all aspects of government but Paul is wrong on education. I like the National Parks and feel they are a treasure beyond price to leave our children's children. I do not want them sold off to oil companies or coal mining operations.
        The computer your reading this on is a direct result of investing in America's space program. Which certainly wouldn't exist if Dr. Paul implemented his policies. There are many other terrible ideas there. But some great ones too.
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        Radiofreeeuropa4 months, 1 week ago
        
        I am a left leaning libertarian ( oh yes there is such a thing). And Paul is a right leaning libertarian. I believe he is quite correct on foreign policy and the Fed, and respect for the constitution. However interpretation of the constitution that claims any item not clearly defined there should not exist in government is wrong. "Promoting the general welfare of the people" is simply ignored by the right leaning libertarians. The constitution does not provide for any standing army whatsoever, and no way to pay for one either. Though in a Utopian world one might say that is just fine, this ain't no Utopian world.
        
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        Radiofreeeuropa4 months, 1 week ago
        
        Americans love the idea of a government with no authority to collect taxes, yet in this world, a defenseless USA relying on state militias for defense is not practical.
        There is no provision for the Federal government to own anything under the constitution, the right leaning libertarians would have no place for government to conduct business at all. No military bases, no white house, no national parks. Nothing. Though Paul personally has had a distinguished career in public service, His policies have a nice populist ring to them, but digging a little deeper reveals most of them simply can not work in todays world.
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quackpot4 months, 1 week ago

McCain = Bush III

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ybdogsct4 months, 1 week ago

http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,165877,...
"Senators Webb and Hagel have introduced the Post-9/11 Veterans' Educational Assistance Act (S22) to replace the existing GI Bill. Senators Obama and Clinton both support this increase in benefits. Senator McCain does not.
Why can't we value their existing service enough to compensate them accordingly? Why can't we honor that service by fulfilling the promise of access to higher education that was made when they enlisted initially? Why is this even being debated?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is basing his bid for the White House on his credentials as a decorated veteran and leader on defense policy, has become the target of veterans groups pushing hard for more aid and relief for troops returning from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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  Radiofreeeuropa4 months, 1 week ago
  
  Both Hagel(republican) and Webb (democrat) are examples of the right stuff. With so much negative press on congress, these two are examples of how it SHOULD and COULD be done.
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ybdogsct4 months, 1 week ago

"Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said he adamantly believes the government has a greater obligation to help veterans who served after Sept. 11, 2001. Webb, along with Sens. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. and Chuck Hagel R-Neb., authored the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (S 22), which aims to modernize the GI Bill.
Nationally, Democratic presidential candidates New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama are both co-sponsors of the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, as is Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, is not supporting the bill.
Paul Rieckhoff, IAVA director and a veteran of the Iraq war is quick to point out: "The annual price tag for fully-funding college for today's veterans is less than the amount of money we spend every two weeks in the War on Terror."
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,164007...
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ybdogsct4 months, 1 week ago

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,162...
"'We view the G.I. Bill as the cost of war,' said Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and a strong proponent of Webb's bill. 'The troops in Fallujah and Kandahar deserve the same commitment from our nation in war as those who fought in Normandy and Guadalcanal.'
But the bill's future is clouded by politics and the upcoming presidential election, advocates say. The first bill died in committee last year under partisan budget wrangling - some lawmakers objected to the new G.I. Bill's cost."
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,161...
"President Bush's final defense budget, for fiscal 2009, asks a reluctant Congress for a third time to raise Tricare co-payments on drugs dispensed at retail pharmacies and to increase Tricare enrollment fees and deductibles for working-age military retirees and their families."
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ybdogsct4 months, 1 week ago

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/29/new.gi.rally/i...
"Cheated. Baited and switched. That's how veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on how the GI Bill would benefit them. Soldiers, Marines and airmen said they are not given enough funds from the bill to cover college expenses as they were promised.
Todd Bowers served two tours in Iraq: 'I came home proud, very proud of my service, with a Purple Heart and a Navy commendation medal with a "V" for Valor. But I didn't come back to the education I was expecting. I came back to three different types of student loans, two of which had gone to collections.'
McQueen left behind her husband and 18-month-old daughter in October 2004 and served 10 months in Iraq. After her service, she enrolled in college and found that her total benefits from the GI Bill would be $400 a month for four months, totaling $1,600. Her classes alone, she said, cost $1,000 each."
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  Lurch4 months, 1 week ago
  
  McCain already has an education, why should anybody else get something he doesn`t need?
  McCain is also already cheating on his taxes by paying for his children`s education through tax-free donations to their schools through the McCain family `charity`.
  Pretty clever tax fraud, don`t you think?
  So not only does McCain screw other vets, he is screwing those of us who pay our taxes for his kids education as well.
  Good ol` Honest John!
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bubba24 months, 1 week ago

McCain is a pathetic hypocrite. He has sold his soul in his obsession to become President.
It is really so sad and so bizarre, the change in McCain from the man he was in 2000.
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ybdogsct4 months, 1 week ago

http://news.propeller.com/story/2008/04/30/why-...
"John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. There are a number of reasons why I will not vote for him for President.
Believe me when I say that back then I would never in a million or more years have dreamed that the crazy guy across the hall would someday be a Senator and candidate for President!
John was a wild man. He was intent on breaking every USNA regulation in our 4 inch thick USNA Regulations book. And I believe he must have come as close to his goal as any midshipman who ever attended the Academy.
McCain barely managed to graduate, standing 5th from the bottom of his 800 man graduating class. I and many others have speculated that the main reason he did graduate was because his father was an Admiral, and also his grandfather, both U.S. Naval Academy graduates."
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  Lurch4 months, 1 week ago
  
  Another thing he has in common with Bush, legacy entitlements have enabled them and created a completely false sense of reality where they can get away with zero accountability.
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TheRealizer4 months, 1 week ago

A vote for Mc Dim is a vote for the status quo......
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ETproductions4 months, 1 week ago

In his very long career in Washington DC, is there any position that John McCain has taken and then NOT flip-flopped on? Surely there must be something, no matter how insignificant.
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  GHOSTWHOWALKS4 months, 1 week ago
  
  After researching his voting record I can't find one he hasn't flip flopped on.
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raats66624 months, 1 week ago

Another day another 're-evaluation of a previous position'. We're now down to 189 days to the election which mean we can ALL look forward to 189 MORE 're-evaluations of previous positions'.
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walden34 months, 1 week ago

It's all about lock-step allegiance to the Republican party. Look at how he's cozied up to GWB after the whole South Carolina "black baby" thing.
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  Radiofreeeuropa4 months, 1 week ago
  
  What happened to this man's testicles? Who would cave to the very people who caused you such harm.... maybe it's a kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
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SwampFox-82nd4 months, 1 week ago

Well spoken, cool friend, Republicans who dare disagree with the GOP find themselves looking for a new career...
From Republicans may I query, what do you think we should do with the folks who brought us NAFTA, Iraq, and Iran-Contra? Give them medals for rewriting the truth?
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SwampFox-82nd4 months, 1 week ago

PS: While we're at it, might you enlighten my ignorant brain why the man who converses with God daily will not allow his appointees to swear to the aforementioned to tell the truth?
And you call me misinformed? ciao
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