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mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 03:34 PM Dec 2013

Veterans' bill voted down by GOP as Senate Democrats proclaim 'New Low'

Veterans' bill voted down by GOP as Senate Democrats proclaim 'New Low'

Democrats fall two votes short of passing bill that would help unemployed veterans amid accusations GOP played politics

Harry Reid, the majority leader of the Senate, said the bill had met 'one Republican stall tactic after another'. Photograph: Harry Hamburg/AP

Republicans have voted down legislation that would have established a $1bn jobs program to put unemployed veterans back to work as firefighters and police officers and in public work projects.
They objected to the cost of the bill, which they said violated spending limits agreed to last year in Congress.
Democrats and veterans groups say its cost are fully offset.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/19/veterans-bill-voted-down-us-senate

Here is the Game, We cant let Democrats win Veterans, They stopped the bill and write are own, Now its are Idea, they will forget the other bill we voted against helping them months ago, How’s that for Scamming the Democrats, Oh yea its not about helping anyone its about PR.

The Veterans can just sit it out until we get finished playing Politics.

Ryan’s PR campaign, is it a Little Late or will it fool the majority of Veterans?

H.R. 813, The Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013

http://www.dav.org/representative-paul-ryan-stance-on-funding-advance-appropriations-veterans-affairs/

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Veterans' bill voted down by GOP as Senate Democrats proclaim 'New Low' (Original Post) mitty14u2 Dec 2013 OP
I want to see veteran's get jobs Politicalboi Dec 2013 #1
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
1. I want to see veteran's get jobs
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 04:00 PM
Dec 2013

But if they've seen war, they should NEVER be a cop. I often wonder if the cop that shot that young man in the BART station on New Years Eve a few years back served in the military and saw war. Why would he shoot a man that was already handcuffed, and on the ground? Or that cop that shot that 13 year old mistaking his gun for real. Why shoot him 6 more times in the back? Sounds like flashbacks possibly.

With Global Warming and more fires, we should train them to fight wildfires instead. We should create a Global Warming Army who's main purpose is to help correct the Earth if possible.

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