05-15-2011, 08:37 PM
Then there is this:
"Obama has faced the increasing pressure on him over the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act that has included a bi-partisan letter from all of the Congressmen on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee by still continuing to fail to implement any of the extended veterans’ benefits of the Caregiver Act. However despite this complete inaction, the Obama administration continues to claim that the “VA and veterans are the president’s top priority” as Deputy VA W. Scott Gould did in a high profile speech last week. The Caregiver Act, which Obama signed it into law nearly a year ago, extends veterans of the War on Terror’s benefits and is meant to provide critical support services to those who take care of our nation’s most severely wounded warriors and includes a stipend to be paid to the primary caregiver of a disabled veteran as well as provisions to pay lodging and meals to those caregivers who might accompany injured veterans on trips for VA healthcare evaluations and treatments.
Because of the obvious importance of providing financial stability for these veterans and their caregivers veterans’ support groups like the Wounded Warrior Project claimed the program was a sign of hope when it was first signed into law on May 5th of last year. However in the intervening 11 months many people’s bright expectation have been tamped into an undiluted pessimism as Obama has failed to get the programs up and running even though months have passed since the January 30th deadline."
"Obama has faced the increasing pressure on him over the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act that has included a bi-partisan letter from all of the Congressmen on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee by still continuing to fail to implement any of the extended veterans’ benefits of the Caregiver Act. However despite this complete inaction, the Obama administration continues to claim that the “VA and veterans are the president’s top priority” as Deputy VA W. Scott Gould did in a high profile speech last week. The Caregiver Act, which Obama signed it into law nearly a year ago, extends veterans of the War on Terror’s benefits and is meant to provide critical support services to those who take care of our nation’s most severely wounded warriors and includes a stipend to be paid to the primary caregiver of a disabled veteran as well as provisions to pay lodging and meals to those caregivers who might accompany injured veterans on trips for VA healthcare evaluations and treatments.
Because of the obvious importance of providing financial stability for these veterans and their caregivers veterans’ support groups like the Wounded Warrior Project claimed the program was a sign of hope when it was first signed into law on May 5th of last year. However in the intervening 11 months many people’s bright expectation have been tamped into an undiluted pessimism as Obama has failed to get the programs up and running even though months have passed since the January 30th deadline."