Nordberg (03-10-2018)
Less than half.. The rest is by us.
But the biggest share of the cost, by far, comes from the extensive security network required, transportation and emergency services, and cleanup. The feds spent $115 million in 2005 and $124 million in 2009, according to media reports. (The District, Virginia and Maryland are reimbursed for most of the expenses they incur.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...=.041ad43e65a8
Why don't most liberals have a problem with that?
TTQ64 (03-11-2018)
What a Wounded Veteran Thinks of Trump’s VA Reform
http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/25/wo...mps-va-reform/
Sgt. Mike Verardo’s military career ended seven years ago because of an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, but he said the worst part of his injuries was dealing with a “broken VA” when he returned home.
He had to go to the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital weekly, wait 57 days for a prosthetic leg, make long drives to VA medical centers to verify he had injuries and undergo more than 100 surgeries. He said the doctors were patriotic and cared about veterans, but much of the bureaucracy failed those returning home from war.
“When I came home it was incredibly difficult going once a week to the VA trying to get the basic care that I needed,” Verardo told The Daily Signal in an interview at the White House shortly after President Donald Trump signed legislation to hold VA staff more accountable and improve service to veterans.
In the East Room, surrounded by veterans groups, Trump signed the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017.
The bill was set up to create a new streamlined process to remove, demote, or suspend any VA employee for poor performance or misconduct. It also provides expanded protections for whistleblowers and bars the VA from using this removal authority if the employee has an open whistleblower complaint.
The new law also allows the VA secretary to to reduce an employee’s federal pension if he is convicted of a felony that influenced his job at the VA and to directly appoint individuals to the positions of medical center director at VA centers.
“President Trump definitely engaged with the veterans on his campaign. He definitely listened to what we had to say,” Verardo told The Daily Signal.
The president talked about the 2014 VA waiting list scandal, in which the department’s inspector general determined that some VA medical centers’ falsified waiting lists led to denied care and in some cases deaths.
No. Trump is, This thread is about Trump and his wanting a grand parade after so many years without one. Lets ponder. If JFK was a narcissist, then the parade is fine? JFK is a justification for this parade, because someone over 60 years ago had one? Sometimes logic escapes me. Is it possible that you cannot follow a thread? Many of the people here were not even born when this grand and glorious JFK parade happened.
Bush had one in 1991. Not as grand as the one Trump wants. Ike had one in 1953. remember those ones? We got over that shit and grew up. Now mostly 3rd world nations do it to show the world how tough they are. I guess that appeals to trump. He does not know we have the strongest military in the world. It goes along with Trumps incessant bragging.
Lets see 30 million this year. 35 next year, maybe 40 the year after. yeah lets blow some money on showing off. Trump should have a parade of draft dodgers. It could be led by those with bone spurs and each regiment would have a different excuse for evading the draft.
Both are military parades. Trump is just having his on Veterans day whereas JFK had his on his inauguration. The day do not determine whether it is a military parade. He had tanks with missiles rolling down the avenue.
I'm not surprised you're defending parades when a liberal has one.
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