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randys1

(16,286 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 11:25 AM Jun 2014

I can prove the VAST majority of repubs/cons dont care about the TROOPS, not just Obama

Here is how you know, I lived this experience.

My wife's ex became sick with cancer due to agent orange/Nam...

Thanks to Obama (he fought for years for a settlement, enter Obama and months later he had it) he got a cash settlement of $50,000 (the upfront figure I am not clear on, the monthly amount I am)up front i think it was and $4600 a month for LIFE (tax fee i think as well)...WOW!

Now what he had to go thru to get that none of us would want, and due to red tape and the W admin it took him years to get it, and he died a few years later and so on, anyway...

When my wife and I first learn of this we are in a room with two family members, both extreme rightwing, troop loving republicans, right, support the troops, right...one of them, when she hears me tell the story about this settlement, she says:

"you mean he gets that for the rest of his life and doesnt have to do anything?" she then went on a RAGE of hate about how unfair that was for him to get that...


Ask ANY righty in your life if they support the Obama admin when they put PTSD settlements on a fast track, that many of our troops are now getting fat checks every month for life (i know one of them too, he hates Obama)

Most of them will say things like "well it seems like an awful lot to do nothing"
"he was only in Afghanistan or Iraq for a year, how could he have all these PTSD problems now and I dont think they last a lifetime"

Trust me...please ask one of them.

Nah, righty doesnt care a lick about the troops anymore than they care about the fetus the instant it is born...

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