Lieberman wants to privatize the VA??

[madinmaryland]

:wtf:

I heard from Big Eddie, that Lieberman wants to privatize the VA. Eddie is all fired up about that. According to eddie, Joe talked about this on imus this morning.

:grr:

What the heck is Jomentum talking about.

[Deep13]

1. So while the rest of us are talking about a national health care system...

...he comes out with this neocon gem.

Someone needs to reboot his hard-drive.

[rodeodance]

15. i do not know his position on National health care.

[Deep13]

16. Me neither, but if he is talking about privatizing...

...a governmental health care system, he can be too inclined to support a single payer national system.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Contract it out to halliburton

Hell, incorporate christian conservative values. Fuck those whining troops and their inconsiderate family members. They should be thankful they have the squalor we are providing. They are all faking their injuries anyway and they lie about PTSD and in the name of Jesus Christ they are all volunteers. How much do liberals want us to do for them? As that great american rush limbaugh would say those soldiers should be doing for themselves and not relying on goverment handouts. Nothing but VA Queens riding around in tax payer provided wheelchairs because they have little boo-boos.

[madinmaryland]

4. We'll just make the vets pay halliburton for no medical care.

:grr:

[BOSSHOG]

6. There ya go. compassionate conservatism in a nutshell

Make the rich richer and fuck the poor and the troops while shouting out how much you support them.

[GoneOffShore]

3. Can we privatize Joe?

Please?

[madinmaryland]

5. I'd rather gitmotize Joe.

[Skidmore]

7. Anybody out there on DU still making excuses for this

SOB? Privatize, indeed. The nation sends these people off to fight, the NATION is responsible for them.

[bryant69]

18. I'm not going to make excuses for what he's actually done

But I'd like confirmation that this is what he actually wants to do - without that I'm going to tar and feather him for his cynical position in the senate and his blind support of the Iraq Meat Grinder.

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[Union Thug]

8. Maybe Mighty-Joe will trade his health insurance for privatized VA care?

Anyone want to place bets one way or another?

What an ass.

[merh]

9. Is that their answer for everything?

Christ, hasn't the last 7 years proved that privatizing and outsourcing DOESN'T FIX A DAMN THING?

I betcha ole Frist is foaming at the mouth, hoping his family hospitals get the first shot at the no-bid contracts for the VA care.

I have to remember not to hate, it is a negative emotion that takes from me. mumble, mumble, grumble ...

[Skidmore]

11. Privatizing means you don't have to take responsibility so

quickly. I mean it's not congress' responsibility, is it?

[madinmaryland]

12. I think its going to go to halliburton as Bosshog said.

Shooter's going to make a bundle of money off this.

:grr:

[grasswire]

10. Doesn't Joe represent CT -- where many insurers are HQ?

I get it. He's doing bidness for his big donors.

[madinmaryland]

13. That would make sense. I remember when i lived in the hartford

area 20 years ago, there were a lot of them in CT. I don't know if they are all still there.

BTW, there are a lot of defense contractor there also.

[Nutmegger]

24. Yes it's still the Insurance Capital of the World

And no doubt LIEberMe is answering to his massive PAC money. Each day, my anger with LIEberMe reaches a new high. Screw him.

[Mandate My Ass]

14. If the soldiers think they're screwn now...

just wait until they see the horrors of privatization, with no oversight and no consequences for treating the soldiers like warmed over shit. In fact, the worse off they are, the more profit for the private contractor.

What a good little repuke Joementum is.

[brentspeak]

17. We need a news source for this. Big Eddie and Imus won't do.

[madinmaryland]

20. Eddie played a clip of Lieberman saying that on Imus this morning.

I don't remember the exact quote, but that is what he said. I won't listen to imus, but it was an actual joe-mo quote.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. So tell me DU he is a democrat right

:sarcasm:

And the party should continue to accomodate this excuse for a Freeper

[madinmaryland]

21. I still trying to figure out what makes joe a dem.

*Iraq
*privatizing the VA.
*refusal to vote against roberts and alito


:shrug:

[mduffy31]

22. Okay lets alienate him so much that he changes parties...

there goes the majority....

[donheld]

23. So what! I want to privatize Hoe Lieberman.