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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

May 20, 2014 05:41 PM Forum: Politics

Geithner: White House Wanted Me to Lie

Posted By Dave Snope
Obama on the big issues:

VA scandal: DIDN'T KNOW
Benghazi security: DIDN'T KNOW
Fast and Furious: DIDN'T KNOW
Lose your doctor: DIDN'T KNOW
Bin Laden hit: MASTERMIND

May 20, 2014 06:20 PM Forum: Politics

Call Boehner/McConnell

Posted By Dave Snope
Maybe they should take the call because the president is either golfing or fundraising out of town 90% of the time. In the rare event that he's in DC proper, he's going out to dinner with pals and playing sports and throwing like a girl.


May 21, 2014 03:13 PM Forum: Politics

VA medical care - what did you expect

Posted By Dave Snope
That is horrible, Charles. I can't imagine what it must be like for seriously ill patients and their families to be at the receiving end of that kind of bureaucratic nightmare.

Years ago I had a friend who was a doctor at the VA in LA. He would get off every day at 2:30pm and go to the beach or work out. Then plenty of partying at night. He must have been the tannest and biggest-muscled doctor in the country. I never could figure out why his work life was so easy and I remember being kinda pissed that I was paying taxes for this surf lifestyle. Truth is, this guy was really bright, finished college in three years with math and premed degrees, and was only at the VA because the Navy paid for his education, then he was leaving ASAP. He had no motivation to stay and work hard.

May 21, 2014 03:35 PM Forum: Politics

VA medical care - what did you expect

Posted By Dave Snope
Charles R Genovese, Jr MD said:

You liberals that have not dealt with true bureaucracy are just ignorant

The massive incompetence, corruption, and waste from Obamacare is only beginning to take hold. The ultimate end will be the whole country's healthcare system being like the VA is now.

Here's a quarter billion corrupted and wasted in just one small state. No patients being helped here, just bureaucrats and contractors helping themselves:

The federal criminal investigation of Oregon’s health insurance exchange took a step into public view Tuesday when the U.S. Attorney’s office issued broad subpoenas seeking information from Cover Oregon and the Oregon Health Authority.
...

The investigation, led by federal prosecutors and the FBI, is seeking documents, memos, and emails between the two state entities that oversaw the botched health exchange with U.S. authorities in charge of dispensing federal money for the project.
 http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2014/05/fbi_issues_subpoena_to_cover_o.html#incart_m-rpt-1

May 25, 2014 07:10 AM Forum: Politics

VA medical care - what did you expect

Posted By Dave Snope

Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., sits on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee in the House and she told [Larry O'Connor] Wednesday on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., that the House has passed a dozen bills for reform of the VA and they are collecting dust on [Sen.] Harry Reid’s desk:

O’CONNOR: Are your colleagues in the House doing something about this decades-old problem so we can get something done for the vets?

REP WALORSKI: In the past 18 months, since I’ve been a member of Congress, we’ve passed, on the House floor, at least 12 reform VA bills. Mandating the VA to fix different things, mandating the VA to report different things, mandating them to fix their website, bipartisan bills that went to the Senate, and they are DOA on the Senate side

The Indiana freshman went on to say, “We can pass bills all day long here on the House side, but if the Senate doesn’t get in gear and be held responsible and be held accountable for these veterans, it’s not going to work. … These things have been dead on arrival. Harry Reid has not moved one of these bills.”

So when you hear the president and the Democrats in Congress lament the “do nothing Congress” and proclaim their “year of action” in which President Obama will “act if Congress fails to act,” take note that Harry Reid has not brought any of the House VA reform bills to the Senate floor for consideration while veterans are dying as they wait for care.

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/05/23/gop-rep-house-passed-a-dozen-va-reform-bills-that-are-doa-in-senate-120812

May 25, 2014 06:35 PM Forum: Politics

VA medical care - what did you expect

Posted By Dave Snope
In case you believe the claims that the VA needs more money, and that the solution to government failure is more government.

Larry Kudlow explains:
Don't tell me the problem is not enough government money. That is nonsense. Everyone should go read John Merline's article in Investor's Business Daily headlined "VA Health Spending Soars as Vets Decline." Here are some of his numbers: From 2000 to 2013, VA outlays nearly tripled while the population of veterans declined by 4.3 million. And Medicaid-care spending, which consumes about 40 percent of the VA's budget, has climbed 193 percent over those years, while the number of patients served by the VA each year went up only 68 percent.

In another informative article, John Fund, citing Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute, notes that 344,000 veterans' care claims are now backed up and waiting to be processed, that it takes an average of 160 days for health-benefit approval, and that according to VA figures for 2012, veteran appeals face an average wait time of 1,598 days, or more than four years.
...
This VA scandal is a reminder that government-run single-payer health care does not work. And it makes it clear that the entire system must be changed. We owe it to our veterans, and everyone else, too.


Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/05/24/blame_socialism_not_shinseki_122743.html#ixzz32kmZ0bxO

May 30, 2014 12:18 AM Forum: Politics

ROFLOL At Mooch!

Posted By Dave Snope
DC children are refusing to eat Michelle's meals.

A report by local Washington D.C. news station NBC4 indicates that over 60,000 low-income students in the metro area are skipping lunch, dissatisfied with the food offered to them by their schools.

In Fairfax County, Virginia, which contains much of D.C.’s Virginia suburbs, 16 percent of students eligible for free lunch don’t eat on a typical day. In Washington itself, the figure is 24 percent. In Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland, over a quarter of low-income students don’t eat lunch per day.

The kids’ failure to eat is costing the schools big money, as they lose $3 in federal subsidies every time a student on free lunch forgoes taking a meal. That’s $180,000 a day, adding up to over $32 million in a school year lasting approximately 180 days. School officials say the lost subsidies are straining their budgets, as they need the money to pay for healthier food options mandated by Congress.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/29/dc-children-avoiding-michelle-obamas-healthy-lunches/#ixzz339ZBrp7B

Only in the backwards world of government programs does losing non-paying customers cost your business big money.

June 1, 2014 08:10 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Solar Shots From May 31

Posted By Dave Snope
Sailboat prom:

June 7, 2014 04:44 AM Forum: Politics

People Are Losing Jobs All Over...

Posted By Dave Snope
I guarandamtee you that a lot of these anointed workers are the ones faking the temperature and sea data that is being used to put tens of thousands of productive workers out of their jobs in the name of global warming.

June 10, 2014 01:42 AM Forum: Politics

Domestic Terrorists

Posted By Dave Snope
According to my local news, the Gadsden Flag that they used is a symbol of neo-nazi white supremacists.

Both the news and the psychokillers are idiots.

Eric Holder leaps into action to investigate conservative groups.

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