Comments on: Obama Wants Troops To Pay For Their Own Injuries

By: SPC/Ret Cummins

SPC/Ret Cummins — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:39:00 +0000

For everyone who agrees with the Obama bill and wants us military soldiers to pay for our own medical bills well you can kiss my *&# The way I see it if you dont want to stand behind us and support what we do for you then feel free to stand in front of us and act as bullet catchers so we dont have to worry about paying for medical bills. You sure seem to think that you can pay for every medical bill you run into so why dont you try getting blown up 8 times and getting shot and then you can pay for medical expences for the rest of your life. My first two weeks in the hospital cost over 100,000 dollars thats more than i made in the military in three years. How would I ever pay for that on my own. I couldnt I would just have to die, it would be cheaper for my family to bury me then to have to pay for medical bills.

PROUD TO BE A SOLDIER

By: Anna Dalbec

Anna Dalbec — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:30:55 +0000

Got an e-mail about this and thought it was a bad joke.
My husband served his country for 20 years. My 2 children and one born when he was in Viet Nam lived many years without a father or husband.
All of us gave a large part of our lives for this country.
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You never get rich serving your country. But know the sacraficesyou make for freedom is a part we pay for the freedoms that are now being taken away.

By: greatgrandma

greatgrandma — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:11:57 +0000

My husband is a veteran . He is 73 years young and service connected. The Va when he is seen by a doctor bills his insurance and medicare for his visits. This has been going on for at least 10 years. Now I agree that any military person should never have to pay for treatment.

By: Desert Storm Vet

Desert Storm Vet — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:19:31 +0000

He has already secretly implemented this plan for us to pay for our own healthcare !! Just received bills for all care received from the VA backdated to January 2009 “6 Months Worth” and I had already paid over $800 in co-pays out of pocket !. They tracked down my private healthcare insurance then double billed the insurance also !!

This guy waited for the press to die down, then he screwed all of us vets and our families secretly with his thugs !! He and Emanuel can go to hell, and the military should leave his ass high and dry with absolutely so support at all !!

Vets should take to the streats in DC for a massive protest, that exceeds the numbers at his BS inauguration ! This guy is anti-American to the bone !!

By: Army wife

Army wife — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:29:53 +0000

Im a army wife and my husband is currently over in Iraq, and I hope joe is being sarcarstic because first of all we dont make that much money. My husband gets paid to go over to another country and fight to keep everyone safe in the US. And for the president even considering that is stupid, we shouldnt have to pay for any medical because we couldnt afford it. He has to leave his family and me and our little girl so he can serve for his country. Obama shouldnt be making none of the military even if they are veterans pay for medical because we do this to keep this country safe. My husband has to live in a shitty enviroment for 15months and doesnt get to see his little girl grow up. It pisses me off to think some people in this world think we should have to pay for medical. If you were in the military or had someone special in the military you would think differently. Knowone knows how it feels to have to leave there family to go to another country and then might not come back alive or in one piece, I think the military should make more money for what they do. All I can say is if that law is passed that there will be alot of people out of the military and they will probably have to bring the draft back, or there will be alot of drama military paying medical. My husband tells me alot of the soldiers that he talks to and told them about this that they will be pissed and will get out of the military.

By: Called to be free

Called to be free — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:04:09 +0000

As a peacetime vet of the US Air Force, I’d like to share a little something I know. The young men & women who go overseas often don’t know where they are going, they just follow the orders of those over them. They leave their families behind the in the states for months on end, and get transported into a “different world” facing people that absolutely hate them for what they percieve their government stands for. It’s no easy job, and these folks deserve not only our respect but any bennys that come along, although I’m sure they are few & far between. Also - I have known several people that are active duty army whose families are on food stamps because the base pay just doesn’t pay enough to live on, especially for those new recruits and lower ranking enlisted folks. My son, who is getting ready to enlist into the army, told me what his base pay would be & I couldn’t believe it, barely above minimum wage. Paying for their own health care? You’ve got to be kidding me. Who dreamed this up, that’s what I want to know.

Next time you’re out at a restaurant & see someone in a military uniform having a meal - if you can - slip the waitress a few extra bucks to pay for their bill as a way to say thanks. God Bless our military, and thank you, all of you, for what you do.

By: Obama Juggernaut « Commander In Thief

Obama Juggernaut « Commander In Thief — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:15:27 +0000

[…] Folks, if this man is allowed to continue doing things like this, their really will be no America left by the time he’s finished. I cannot believe how sick this is. I am so stunned by this, that I could write about it for months. This really takes the cake, Obama. I can’t believe a human being is this sick and arrogant. […]

By: Jared Dodson

Jared Dodson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:19:56 +0000

I am so glad that I am out

By: Bloodthirsty Liberal

Bloodthirsty Liberal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:08:32 +0000

As Joe wrote to me:

“That was pure satire, I thought it was obvious that I was dissing Obama.”

Yeah, I thought so, too. I wonder if the outrage (after two attempts by yours truly to calm things down) is legitimate.

This thread is hereby closed.

BTL

By: ROSE

ROSE — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:53:33 +0000

TO JOE BLOW O’NEAL, YOU MUST BE OBAMA COMRADE. ARE YOU HIGH ON SOMETHING?

THEY ARE PROTECTING YOU STUPID BUT. WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT FOR SIX MONTHS.

PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HAD BETTER WAKE UP TO OBAMA AND COMRADES LIKE O’NEAL THAT WANT A SOCIALIZED U.S.

By: Watchman

Watchman — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:04:42 +0000

Might as well charge them for the toilet paper they use by the sheet.

By: john pike

john pike — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:22:21 +0000

I’m a veteran and I’m rated at 60% disabled and I would gladly go back to the middle east and serve my nation. If I was called back you can bet your ass that Mr. O’neil would be my personnal guest of honor and he could see how good the military has it. Fres food, free lodging, paid holidays, hell we even get to play in the sand for free. Whew! sounds exciting doesn’t it Joe! How about you bring you wise ass down range with the men and women who defend your right to publish this crap and then when you get there see how far you get when you voice your opinion. If you have not served in the Armed forces of these United States then you need to keep your comments to yourself. If you have served, then shame on you for voicing such garbage. Next time you fill like flapping your gums and making comments like that then look in the mirror and ask yourself this question: do I have the balls to walk into a VA hospital and tell that to a veteran who lost part of their body or suffer from trauma from their service! If can’t then shut your pie hole!

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:13:41 +0000

PLEASE tell me this was a made-up story, not for real.And this guy is the Secretary of Veterans Affairs?”Only two have been willing to die for you…Jesus and the American Service man.”

By: Donnie

Donnie — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:22:10 +0000

I am a Vietnam-era veteran who volunteered to serve overseas, and later did so. I love (what is left of) this country today more than I did then.

If there’s any truth to the idea being considered to have our fine young service people pay for service-related injuries in any way, shape, or form, I thought of another idea.

Why not have us pay, retroactively, for the ammunition we expended. This policy could be instituted for a period back to, say, the War of 1812. In my particular case, this will amount to a considerable sum!

And next time you need someone to carry a rifle, DON’T CALL ME, because I won’t go.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:21:52 +0000

How could anyone NOT catch the sarcasm in Joe’s post? Does anyone really think a trip to Afghanistan and Iraq is a vacation? Sometimes I worry more about the people out there than the government screw ups and this is a huge one. How about the government paying for private insurance for every serviceman. They could make it part of the enlistment package. Oh wait, what insurance company is going to want to cover job hazards in a war zone? For the love of God, if the government deploys servicemen into harms way then the government needs to cover the needs of each man AND the family he’s being taken from and it needs to be the government’s responsibility to see each and every man treated as what he is. One who laid his/her life on the line to protect the safety and rights of us all including the lofty souls in the government who sent them there in the first place. SHAME on whoever hatched that abomination of an idea, it’s sickening.