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(D) Phil Weiser
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(D) Alexis King
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(D) Jerry DiTullio
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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November 11, 2015 11:02 AM UTC
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I think it's a little bit early for attacks ads like this. The DSCF seems to have the same approach as the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee; voters are nothing more than dumb schmucks who can't figure things out for themselves. Woods’ vote against HB 15-1030 sounds bad; the other two, maybe not so much. And I can think of stronger reasons why she doesn’t deserve re-election, like her stand on reproduction.
I'm all in favor of providing basic services to veterans in the years after their tours of duty; especially those who serve in the hot zones like Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. But should doing a three year hitch, and particularly not getting shot at during it, really qualify one for 30 years or more of services at taxpayer expense? Whatever happened to the concept of "citizen soldier?"
Right now, I don't feel super strong either way on these veterans entitlement and fiscal issues. But I think veterans benefits and how to reasonably control them is a conversation that has to happen eventually; same with other big entitlement programs. And, one can ask why isn't the VA budget counted as part of the overall defense budget? It should be. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has frequently called for an audit of the Pentagon (also refer to his comments at last night's debate about military spending). No luck yet. The VA should be included in any audit of the military. C.H.B.
I think you should take this "give veterans less" message to the voters with a big GOP sticker on it. See how that does.
Yeah, Democrats take such GREAT care of vets. Obama's VA proves it! Not…
You're getting feisty today. After glow from last night's great debate?
Well Dems do propose and vote for legislation to help vets which Republicans always vote against. And now that the photo ops are over Rs won't vote to make help for the heroes of 9/11 permanent either as Dems keep trying to do.
And besides, you still haven't admitted that you were completely out of line to accuse anyone here of mocking the disabled or admitted it was his mom using her disabled child for political purposes or that the overwhelming vote against the Jeffco rightie wackos is proof that the recall reflected the true will of the electorate, not just the success of union "thugs" so shut up and go away.
I know it doesn't do any good to say so but I feel better every time I tell you what a waste of space stupid little piss ant you are. And you certainly are.
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Well, a pox on both sides on this … Republicans love to puff out their chests and proclaim themselves patriots (think Dick Cheney) and send other people's sons and daughters to war. On the other hand, Democrats seem to want to create a whole other class of government dependents out of military personnel and veterans — clearly with the cynical goal of creating Democrat voters.
Let's get real … why should we be subsidizing the college tuitions of active duty service members? This is pandering plain and simple. And just how long is this "those of us who have put their lives on the line for our country" got to mean that taxpayers are supposed to pay for the consequences of stupid wars?
Especially in this era of the volunteer military, the choice to join is a choice; individuals who make this choice have to be responsible for their decision and not lord it over the rest of us by expecting more government entitlements.
Finally, this is all about pure partisan politics. Woods putative opponent can claim 'more concern for veterans' only because she will promise to spend more taxpayers' dollars: Zenzinger is otherwise exactly the same as Woods … post a flag on a web site and say laudatory words about past wars.
Um – we subsidize the college tuitions of active duty service members so that when they are done with their service they have something to look forward to in life, so that they might volunteer in the first place. We don't pay them enough to go to college: many of their families collect food stamps. And when they are injured during their service to us and our government, we owe it to them to take care of those injuries.
Please tell me your entire post was snark, because it pissed me off. I'm an anti-war, smaller defense department liberal no doubt, but we owe those who do service for our country.
I think your sarcasm detector may be off. Or mine is in the other direction.
If their ads are going to be this bad, they need to just send me the money. I can make much better use of it. But then the Dems are already stupid for choosing a loser as their candidate and freezing out all others.