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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 04:08 PM Nov 2014

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GOP Voted Against 7 Bills to Help Veterans

Lets not forget.

H.R. 466 – Wounded Veteran Job Security Act became H. R. 2875.

H.R. 1168 -- Veterans Retraining Act

H.R. 1171 – Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization

H.R. 1172 -- Requiring List on VA Website of Organizations Providing Scholarships for Veterans

H.R. 1293 -- Disabled Veterans Home Improvement and Structural Alteration Grant Increase Act of 2009

H.R. 1803 -- Veterans Business Center Act

H.R. 2352 – Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/16/1091597/-GOP-Voted-Against-7-Bills-to-Help-Veterans

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GOP Voted Against 7 Bills to Help Veterans (Original Post) SHRED Nov 2014 OP

Support the troops, starve the veterans. JaneyVee Nov 2014 #1

randi rhodes always said they love the troops when theyre in their nice white uniforms belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #2

And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief" Old Nick Nov 2014 #3

K&R B Calm Nov 2014 #4

Hypocrites Are Us colsohlibgal Nov 2014 #5

This is what I told the old teabagger veteran I argued with on election day. Vinca Nov 2014 #6

I tried too with fellow vets that I know. Like you, it didn't get through. B Calm Nov 2014 #7

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

1. Support the troops, starve the veterans.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 04:19 PM

Nov 2014

belzabubba333

(1,237 posts)

2. randi rhodes always said they love the troops when theyre in their nice white uniforms

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 05:05 PM

Nov 2014

polished and new but not when they come back bloodied and broken and in need of medical/mental help

i miss you randi

Old Nick

(468 posts)

3. And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief"

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 05:31 PM

Nov 2014

Ooh they point the cannon right at you and I.

B Calm

(28,762 posts)

4. K&R

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 06:00 PM

Nov 2014

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)

5. Hypocrites Are Us

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 06:20 PM

Nov 2014

It's just amazing and more stunning that the MSM will not call them out for it.

Vinca

(50,273 posts)

6. This is what I told the old teabagger veteran I argued with on election day.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 06:22 PM

Nov 2014

It didn't get through.

B Calm

(28,762 posts)

7. I tried too with fellow vets that I know. Like you, it didn't get through.

Reply to Vinca (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 06:27 PM

Nov 2014

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