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I'm so glad that you actually put all that down in writing.  Because I love seeing people eat their words.  I'm still planning on being on these boards in a few years, and I'm putting this down.

Obama running the war in Afghanistan =  FAILURE

automatic promotion????hmmm that says alot about a lot!! do you work for the gov??? if so then again i would say that explains....a lot

kellyj says ...

automatic promotion????hmmm that says alot about a lot!! do you work for the gov??? if so then again i would say that explains....a lot

No kelly i do not work for the government.. I work for a medical school.

As for promotion to 0-3.. i was commisioned directly into the paygrade of 0-3E. So as you see my subsequent promotions were not automatic.

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”

Mmm, how about that, It applied to remarks made about Gov Palin too.

Not in service any more either, how about that, so it doesn't apply to me anymore.  I guess I'm free to say my piece.

I thought once an officer always an officer?????  That there was no official release from duty???

Kittyrn says ...

and for kitty

And you might keep in mind IF and WHEN you become an officer.. it is a violation of Art.88 of the UCMJ...to speak the way you have about the President of the United States... You might want to practice some self control.

Good thing, my military days are long gone.  Because I have no intention of rejoining and  becoming a zero.

Then please explain how you plan on sitting on oficer promotion boards?

well i was thinking about it but then again i could not live with automatic promotions !! what a bunch of whooey!! and i guess i'm now damaged goods by saying that i think Pres Obama has absolutely NO IDEA how to solve our little middle east problem.  but hey maybe a bunch of super old congressmen and women will be able to help the guy out or better yet some losers from other countries could give him some of their dandy advice or maybe we can ask those malaysians !! oh gotta go ...time for the bargain hour at the commissary...

Then please explain how you plan on sitting on oficer promotion boards?

Now, who needs the lesson in reading?  I never ever said 'oficer promotion boards'....

Geez, gramps get your glasses on.  You are having trouble reading your i-phone.  

My post was in the past tense.

well this is a debate and the winners are going to be the working class i guarantee you that.  we work hard we pay taxes.  i am pretty sure that if President Obama does not figure out how to handle the middle east there will be little left monetarily to fix our healthcare system. without success in iraq and afghanistan President Obama can kiss his seat in the whitehouse goodbye and come 2010 and 2012 all the losers who voted the one thousand nine hundred pages of bull poopie in healthcare reform  will be lookin for new jobs!!! this is the beginning of reform yes but hopefully it is the reform of bad gov and again i say TERM LIMITS FOR EVERYONE!!!isnt it funny how nobady in gov is pushing for that!!

kellyj says ...

i would say that being dependant on gov is a choice in most cases.  yesterday i was at the laundrymat and saw at least 15 guys all young and fairly healthy looking obviously homeless washing their clothes . they asked me for change they asked me for soap they asked me for softener and finally they asked me which dryers dried the hottest!!! afterwards i had to laugh ....sad but true this is slowly becoming a very handicapped society! all these gentlemen will be getting access to public healthcare and WOW  i'm just so excited to give away more for free to people who have absolutely no intent on becoming positive members of society.

       True, to a great degree I think as well.  Helplessness is often a learned thing.  We here in America sure know how to grow them, don't we.  We, to some rather large degree, have moved our populations to this means to an end.  We are expectors instead of seekers.

merosiern says ...

I have a couple of comments to make. For the people who say the government can't run anything, I disagree. The goverment runs Medicare, and on the whole, it runs well. No one is turned down because of pre-existing conditions. You don't have to change doctors. Your bill doesn't get denied because that's their policy. Walter Reed Hospital is well known for it's excellent physicians, and patient care. That is also government run. Social security works well for what it is. It was always meant to be a supplement to other retirement funds. People who don't have other retirement funds, would be homeless and/or starving without the amount they do get.

Instead of asking a person from England about their health care, consider asking someone from Denmark, Holland or France. It's well known, England's health care system needs improving. I was recently in Italy, where I met a couple from Denmark. They were laughing and talking to the night clerk, when the night clerk said I was from the US. He told me they were discussing how much all of Europe loves Obama, and how silly Ameicans were, to be afraid of univesal health care. The Danes said they are very happy with it, and it didn't turn them into a socialist country. They asked me why Americans equate socialism with communism, when they are not the same thing. They also don't understand American's anti-gay marriage stance.

What many conservatives don't understand about the public option is, it won't be free. The young men kellyj mentioned, would have to pay for insurance. The public option will have different policies to pick from, depending on what they can pay. If they are able-bodied, they will have to pay something.

 

       If you think that medicare, medicade, and social security are efficiently run programs I won't argue with you on that point as I suspect your comb is missing a few teeth; by business standards they are quite poorly run hence from any monitary angle are bankrupt.  I guess you have lived with the Uncle Sam VISA economy concept so long that you have grown used to it.  As for Walter Reed being some pilar of government heathcare don't forget that it is run by the military that is expected to come to a higher standard than most other departments.  I work in the military healthcare system and the per patient dollars are not, by any means, an efficient business model.  The VA and PHS is more of a true government model to look at in terms of healthcare which I like to think of as an armpit of Uncle Sam.  My last point would be that, no we are not going communist, but any move to take free market functions and give overseeing powers to the government marginalizes the economy and this is well documented in Economic circles.  Some people choose to ignore that fact, but all the same it is the truth.  I like capitalism personally as it rewards great ideas and motivated people.  Giving the hunter his food causes the hunter to hunt no more, hence the lazy American socialist model, the expectors.  So you go and believe what you want, but the private sector most always runs things more monitarily efficient than big government.  Rose colored glasses sell well these days.  God bless you and yours.  No hate intended, peace out.

 

Cheers - Tim, R.N.

       I am a CAPITALIST that lives in a country that got strong being a CAPITALIST country and is able to help others on occasion because of the monies it has produced from its CAPITALISM and consider some of these other countries as fair places to vacation sometimes not as any model for what I want my country to become as they are not monitaraly strong as we are because of our CAPITALISM.  If someone likes that kind of stuff please move yourself there as we here in America will continue to be a CAPITALIST country and do well because of it.  Beside you will be easily replaced because there are a lot more people in the world that seek to move here than most any place you think is better to move too.  Don't feel bad when you leave as your easily replaceable just as I am, but the only difference is that I want to stay, I love CAPITALISM, and I'll empty my clips on all those countries that seek to harm this CAPITALIST country that I love.  Don't worry you don't have to miss us because we will come to visit you on our vacations even though you will not be able to afford much travel after paying all the taxes to fuel your government givaways.  CAPITALISM ROCKS.  After all whats wrong with being able to feed and cloth your family by your own efforts and teaching your children to do the same and being greatful because you live in a nation that affords you that situation.

Cheers - Tim, R.N.

Ok a recent post somehone said medicare runs well.   Its too bad that the first thing the government is doing is shaving billions from medicare.  Too bad for the geezers!  My cancer ridden WWII vet dad who is a diehard Democrat........today said he was "rethinking his thoughts about Obama..............they take our medicare because SOME people cant get their own insurance"....................My response was "wecome to the Republican party".   No pleasure in saying it; he was sad, scared, and worried about my mom for when he dies. He is terminal, and this will be his last Christmas. Im set AGAINST universal healthcare 100%.

alphamale says ...

I would not worry about it... Up to 0-3 promotion is pretty much automatic.

what turnp truck did you fall off?   My husband is INACTIVE 04; for excess of 25  yrs they never retire.  On the surface, he tells family he's retired, but as an officer is never retired and could be recalled whenever the powers that be deem it prudent to do so.  Oh and Im not military, Im just married to one of the OFFICERS so I'll bash Obama til the cows come home.    When I see those huge manilla envelopes in the mail from his post in Brirmingham I get terrified.   Oh yeah.................there is no such thing as 'automatic promotion'...........plenty of hoops to jump through.  Physcals, testing, pshyc evals...............but I guess they just stamped  your application and didnt bother look closely unless your just exagerating to impress the masses?