OBAMA AND THE MILITARY: 25 Telltale Signs Obama Treats Our Vets Like Human Trash

Ever since Barack Obama was elected in 2008, and worse yet since his 2012 reelection, many areas in our military is a ghost of what it once was.  Obama has been purposely hallowing out our military at almost every turn; it’s no secret that he despises our beloved military veterans, unless of course they are protecting his sorry ass.

Press TV reports: Why does the Obama administration treat our military veterans like human garbage? 

Every year on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Barack Obama and our other politicians make very nice speeches, but the truth about how they feel about our veterans can be seen in how they are treated every single day. 

In the United States today, there are well over half a million veterans that have been waiting for at least 125 days to have their benefit claims processed.  Many of them will ultimately have their claims sent back or denied just so a government employee somewhere can get a bigger bonus. 

Meanwhile, conditions at VA facilities all over the country are absolutely abysmal, and many veterans have to wait more than half a year just to get an appointment at one of those facilities.  Once you start looking into how this country really treats military veterans, it becomes easier to understand why 22 military veterans commit suicide in America every single day. 

Our vets have a higher rate of unemployment, a higher rate of poverty, a higher rate of homelessness, a higher rate of depression and a higher rate of divorce than the general population.  It is a crying shame.  One of the ways that any society is judged is by how it treats military veterans, and the truth is that America has failed miserably.  This has been particularly true since Barack Obama has been in the White House.

The following are 25 signs that military veterans are being treated like absolute trash under the Obama administration.

1. The average claim for veteran benefits takes more than half a year to be processed.

2. The Department of Veterans Affairs has a backlog of more than half a million overdue claims for benefits that are at least 125 days old.

3. In 2009, the number of veterans that had been waiting for more than a year to have their benefits approved was 11,000.  Today, that number has soared to 245,000.

4. Thousands upon thousands of military veterans that are waiting for their claims to be processed are dealing with absolutely horrible injuries.

5. At one VA hospital in Wisconsin, one military veteran with a broken jaw that was seeking treatment still had not had his jaw fixed after a month and a half.

6. Today, it takes military vets an average of seven months to get an appointment at a VA facility.

7. Many VA facilities are in absolutely horrific condition.  A while back, ABC News conducted an investigation of conditions at VA facilities across the United States.  What ABC News discovered was absolutely shocking.  The following are just a few of the things that they found during the course of their investigation:

*Bathrooms filthy with what appeared to be human excrement  *Dirty linens from some patients mixed in with clean supplies
*Examining tables that had dried blood and medications still on them
*Equipment used to sterilize surgical instruments that had broken down
*Some patients were forced to beg for food and water
*Veterans were neglected so badly that they developed horrific bedsores and dangerous infections

8. As I have written about previously, applying for veteran benefits is extremely complicated, and VA employees are actually paid bonuses for denying claims.

9. Large numbers of military veterans that legitimately should be getting benefits are having their claims denied by the federal government. 

10. Last year, more than 85,000 military veterans were treated for sexual abuse that they suffered while serving in the military.  40 percent of them were men.

11. According to a recent Defense Department survey, approximately 14,000 men in the U.S. military were sexually assaulted by other men during 2012.

12. According to the Washington Post, there is an epidemic of sexual assaults being committed by military recruiters.  The Pentagon is pledging to do something about the problem.

13. The number of active members of the U.S. military that are killing themselves now exceeds the number that are dying on the battlefield.

14. Since the beginning of the Iraq War, twice as many members of the Texas National Guard have killed themselves as have been killed in combat.

15. According to one recent study, 22 military veterans kill themselves in the United States every single day.

16. At this point, combat veterans account for about 20 percent of all suicides in the United States.

17. The unemployment rate for military veterans is significantly higher than for the population as a whole.  This is especially true for younger veterans.

18. On any given night, approximately 200,000 military veterans are homeless in the United States.

19. All over America, monuments that honor military veterans are crumbling and falling apart. 

20. Under the Obama administration, many military veterans have had to pay to have their medals shipped to them.  For example, one soldier actually had to pay a 21 dollar shipping fee to get his Purple Heart. 

21. In some areas of the country the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been caught banning the words “God” and “Jesus” during funeral services for veterans.

22. Today, the federal government provides “end of life” literature to veterans to them determine when their lives are “no longer worth living”.

23. One study discovered that approximately one-third of all military veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq were officially determined to be mentally ill by government officials.

24. All over America, “mental illness” is being used as a reason to take guns away from military veterans.

25. The federal government is increasingly labeling military veterans as “potential domestic terrorists” if they express viewpoints that are critical of the government.

Our Military and wounded veterans need our support now more than ever. It’s saddening to think we employ a President that hates America, that does not believe in a strong military to uphold our strong values.

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U.S. Manufacturing: Worst Hit Since June 2009 as Sequester and Slowing Consumption Bite Are to Blame

May 2013 Manufacturing numbers have come in and shows a contracting economy.

Forbes reports: “As many try to minimize the impact of fiscal restraint and the sequester on the U.S. economy, the May manufacturing ISM printed at a contractionary 49%, the lowest reading since June 2009.  While it is too early to determine if this is just a slowdown or will ultimately result in an outright contraction, the manufacturing sector is suffering from “sluggish” economic conditions and “flattening” demand both in the U.S. and abroad.  The stock market didn’t seem to care much, falling initially but jumping right back to higher highs in the aftermath of the report.

The first contraction in manufacturing activity since last November indicates “a flattening or softening in demand due to a sluggish economy, both domestically and globally,” the Institute for Supply Management noted on Monday.  And, while stock markets are firing on all cylinders, the underlying economy is showing signs of fatigue.

The overall reading fell 1.7% to 49% in April, led by big declines in the production index and new orders, which fell 4.9% and 3.5% respectively.  The employment index ticked down 0.1 percentage points but remained in expansionary territory, while the price index fell 0.5 percentage points, indicating prices for raw materials declined in May, and giving further evidence of deflationary tendencies in the economy.  Deflation is the Federal Reserve’s worst enemy, giving Chairman Bernanke & Co. reason to question whether it is the right time to taper its asset purchase program, or QE.”

Read rest of article here.

TED CRUZ: ‘If Standing for Liberty and Constitution Make You a Wacko Bird, Then Count Me a Very Proud Wacko Bird’

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OBAMA LIES: Obama Administration’s ‘Three-Step Process’ of Lying to the American People

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Glenn Beck does great work, and this is no exception — watch the Obama Administration’s pathological ‘three-step process’ of lying to the American people, which consists of: begins with lies, revising history to retro-fit, concludes with smearing the people that speak out against.

The Blaze reports: “Those who closely follow current events may often find themselves hearing a politician making a claim, but swearing they heard them say the exact opposite a month, a year, or even a decade ago.

That’s because, many times, they did.

Tuesday night on TheBlaze TV, Glenn Beck aired a segment documenting a number of apparent lies and falsehoods being pushed by the current administration, though he was clear that GOP leaders have done the same.

In the case of health care reform, for instance, President Barack Obama repeatedly promised that families who earn $250,000 a year or less would not see their taxes increases by “one dime” under his plan. But when his lawyers were arguing for the bill in front of the Supreme Court, they said the exact opposite to ensure its passage, arguing that all the new “penalties” are taxes.

“It’s important that you understand the lies that have been told thus far, because they’re only getting worse, and they’re only getting much more dangerous,” Beck warned.

Beck argued that the administration has employed a “three-step process” that begins with lies, continues with revising history to fit the desired story, and concludes with smearing anyone who tries to speak out.

“The only way for them to maintain absolute power is for them to always be lying,” Beck said. “To keep this illusion that they can never be wrong, they must silence or attack their opponents who prove them wrong time and time again.”

Beck analyzed the president’s words in more detail on his radio program Monday, from the president’s “early years” to the IRS scandal:

MICHELLE OBAMA: ‘There’s a lot of People Talkin’ About Elitism, and all a dat… But Let me Tell You Who Me and Barack Are’

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Not only is the grammar Michelle Obama using here inexcusable for a First Lady, but you can also see the anger in her eyes and voice… Wow, this is who is representing the United States of America, this is our First Lady!