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pinboy3niner

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1. I was at a veterans event today
Sun Aug 11, 2013, 01:48 AM
Aug 2013

I was sitting with a large group of vets when two of them started ragging on Obama for "not supporting vets."

I spoke up to point out that President Obama's first budget gave the VA its largest increase in 30 years, and that he has directed additional resources to TBI. PTSD, and suicide prevention.

When one of the two mouthoffs said something like, "Talk is cheap," I pointed out that the President had issued Exutive Orders that directed resources to those efforts.

After that, all we heard from the mouthoffs was *crickets* ...

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