The Obama Deception

Obama does appoint all of the secretaries and such and does have a direct influence on department policies...however, congress is soley responsible for passing legislation and making laws, and they have the power to impeach the president, so the president is subservant of them. That said, the president doeas set the agenda via budgets and so forth, but congress has the power to make changes. What pisses me off about Obama is the same kind of fear mongering GWB used about terrorist invading and destroying our way of life. Obama is using the exact same tacticts via saying the recession will turn into a depression if x and x bill is not passed and on my desk by friday. It id no different than GWB and it never will be because fear mongering is part of the process in the US. Just as in Dr. Strangelove, the biggest communist threat is in the flouride, poisoning it to mke us communist... I wish politicians could ust tell it like it is.... especially gov. gregoire in WA.

Sorry for the rant.... a bit faded and some of my points may not ake sense right now, will check back tomorrow to fix any fuck ups...g'night and peace out..... dream of heavy snowfall!!!

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance, but was told by lawmakers that it would be “dead on arrival” if sent to Congress.

Washington Sen. Patty Murray used that blunt terminology, telling Shinseki that the idea would not be acceptable and would be rejected if formally proposed. She made the remarks during a Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing about the 2010 budget.

No official proposal to create such a program has been announced publicly, but veterans groups wrote a pre-emptive letter last week to President Obama opposing the idea after hearing the plan was under consideration. The groups also noticed an increase in “third-party collections” estimated in the 2010 budget proposal—something they said could only be achieved if the VA started billing for service-related injuries.

Asked about the proposal, Shinseki said it was under “consideration.”

“A final decision hasn’t been made yet,” he said.

A second senator, North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, said he agreed that the idea should not go forward.

“I think you will give that up” as a revenue stream, if it is included in this April’s budget, Burr said.

Sen. Murray said she’d already discussed her concerns with the secretary the previous week.

“I believe that veterans with service-connected injuries have already paid by putting their lives on the line,” Murray said in her remarks. “I don’t think we should nickel and dime them for their care.”

Eleven of the most prominent veterans organizations have been lobbying Congress to oppose the idea. In the letter sent last week to President Barack Obama, the veterans groups warned that the idea “is wholly unacceptable and a total abrogation of our government’s moral and legal responsbility to the men and women who have sacrificed so much.”

The groups included The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

At the time, a White House spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the option was being considered.

To be honest.... none of us will ever know what is actually going on in the world.  There are organizations, meetings, alliances and technological advances that are still unknown to the public and will continue to be kept highly confidential.  This unfortunately leads to thousands of conspiracies, some of which are very true, but many are just lame attempts by people to draw followers in to their twisted beliefs.  It's sad and depressing, but as the public we will continue to be uninformed and oblivious to what really goes on behind the scenes in this world.

Just live your life.