Bush Has Provided Unprecedented Support For Veterans
One complaint that I’ve had about President Bush is that he has always neglected to toot his own horn about what he’s accomplished. Since all we ever heard was the negative, it’s no wonder that he was branded the “worst President in history”. Now that he’s on his way out of office and it really doesn’t matter, his press office has finally released something of substance on how he has benefitted veterans and the troops. I’ll be damned if I could find any of this information in 2004, 2006 and 2008 until now. Lord knows I tried to find it.
Here Army Sergeant and IVAW, stick this in your pipe and smoke it.
President Bush Has Provided Unprecedented Support For Our Veterans
“We have a moral obligation to provide the best possible care and treatment to the
men and women who have served our country.” President George W. Bush (March 6, 2007)
Dramatically Increased Funding To Support And Care For Those Who Have Served Our Nation
· Increased funding for veterans’ medical care by more than 115 percent since 2001.
· FY 2009 funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) totals more than $97 billion, nearly double the level of funding when the President took office and the highest level of support for veterans in history.
· Provided more than $6 billion to modernize and expand VA medical facilities and more than $1 billion over the past three years to support traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder treatment and research.
· Honored our veterans with a hallowed, final resting place by implementing and fully funding the largest expansion in the national cemetery system since the Civil War.
Improved Care And Services For Wounded Warriors
· Created the Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors – co-chaired by former Senator Bob Dole and former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala – to ensure that wounded service members and veterans receive quality care and services and can live lives of hope, promise, and dignity. Nearly all of the Commission’s recommendations have already been implemented, such as:
· Expanded training, screening, and staff resources to help service members and veterans suffering from mental health disorders.
· Created a joint Recovery Coordinator Program for seriously injured service members.
· Initiated a pilot program to replace the cumbersome system of two separate disability examinations with a single, comprehensive medical exam.
· Established a Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury and expanded VA’s polytrauma system of care to 21 network sites and clinic support teams to provide state-of-the-art treatment to injured veterans at facilities closer to their homes.
Ensured Those Who Have Served Our Country Receive The Benefits They Deserve
· Called for and signed a GI Bill for the 21st century, which expanded education benefits for service members and veterans and made it easier for those who defend our Nation to transfer unused education benefits to their spouses or children.
· Increased career counseling services for returning veterans, particularly those wounded in combat.
· Signed legislation that increased from two to five years a combat veteran’s eligibility to enroll for lifetime VA medical care and allowed family members of injured service members to take additional time away from their jobs to care for their loved ones.
· Signed legislation to ensure military retirees with severe disabilities receive both their military retired pay and their VA disability compensation.
· Helped more than 1.9 million veterans enroll in the VA health care system since 2001.
· Reduced the average length of time to process a veteran’s disability claim to under 180 days, down from 230 days when the President took office.
Worked To Decrease The Number Of Homeless Veterans
· Expanded Federal grants and worked extensively with faith-based and community organizations to help homeless veterans.
· Cut the number of homeless veterans by nearly 40 percent from 2001 to 2007.
Thanks to TSO
Category: Politics, Support the troops
IVAW deals in lies.
Asking them to take this information into consideration is like showing your alarm clock to your dog.
They’ll continue with the talking points template they’re given.
I got to the point where they’re praising Bush for calling for the GI Bill for the 21st century..the one he tried so hard to kill…and I vomited in my mouth too much to continue reading. I’ll check the rest out and debunk later.
Jonn wrote: Yeah, I know exactly what that means. You’ll pretend to forget about it (busy with work is usually a convenient excuse) until it slips on to the next page and everyone else forgets it, too. You’ll debunk it later, yuh-huh.
There’s a common tactic on the Left. Call for something so over the top that it’s out of the question, give it a catchy name and then demonize people when they vote against it.
Hey Army Sergeant,
Just wait until your Obamessiah shows just how little he and his merry band of Chicago-bred thugs care about the military and veterans. He’s gonna make Clinton look like a patriot.
AS- Did he try to kill it, or did he ask that transferability and some security from mass exodus in the military be included. Please link to obligatory huffington piece, afterdowningstreet or democracy now source.
Good Lord AS Don’t Choke!!!, 🙂
I am reminded time and again how much Lincoln was despised in his own time. I’m not saying Bush is Lincoln, but every person I know who has personally met the man has been impressed by his genuine concern for the military. But you keep on puking in your mouth. It gives you such appropriate smelling breath for the horsesqueeze you expound.
By the way, am I the only one noticing a rise in violence in Iraq since “The One” was elected? I expect it will get worse in an effort to make him follow thru on his promise to cut and run.
Ever notice how many democrats talk about taking caring of veterans while wanting to cut defense spending. For these democrats, the word veteran is the same as victim. President Bush for the most part has tried to take care of the military while taking care of veterans. I only wish he would have pushed from the beginning to build up the active duty military.
Ray…I have noticed it,too. And it will go down from there. While Not an alarmist, I am getting my IL FOID card.