Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	Advertising Cost for Obamacare
Date:	2/8/2014 1:23:48 AM (updated 2/8/2014 1:27:28 AM)

The nightly news just reported that the government has spent $684,000,000 dollars on advertising for Obamacare. To state it a little more accurately, "we the taxpayers" have spent $684,000,000 on Obamacare. This is absurd when the latest polls show that 63% of the American people are against Obamacare. I am sure we all have seen some of the ridiculous TV Ads like the Robert Simmons episode, the Pajama Boy, the talking Dog, the talking Animals, and other "stupid" advertisments too numerous to mention. The content of these advertisements are an embarassment to anyone with a "smidgen" of intelligence, and have to make America the laughing stock around the world. Jay Leno hit the "nail on the head" on his last show last night when he said, "I no longer work for NBC, so I will have to go and sign up for Obamacare". It's crazy that this Administration uses our money on things like this, buy limits the COLA for our military members and reduces the budget for our military. But what do you expect from a President who has never served a day in the military and calls Navy corps members Navy "corpse men "? This nonsense will never stop as long as no one calls his hand.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Advertising Cost for Obamacare
Date:	2/8/2014 1:48:58 PM

You need to tell the complete story. The truth is that the reduction in the COLA was supported Paul Ryan.

"It's crazy that this Administration uses our money on things like this, buy limits the COLA for our military members and reduces the budget for our military. But what do you expect from a President who has never served a day in the military"

"One part of the bill has become particularly controversial: the reduction in cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for working-age military retirees,” Paul Ryan wrote. “The federal government has no greater obligation than to keep the American people safe and we must take care of the men and women in uniform who put their lives on the line. For that reason, Congress is understandably hesitant to make changes to military compensation. But even hesitance has a cost." Citing the rising cost per service member since 2001, he then claimed that the need for reform is "undeniable."

Ryan cited and praised President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for his stance on the issue as well. Ryan wrote, “Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a combat vet himself, has said ‘that we can no longer put off military compensation reform. 

Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	Advertising Cost for Obamacare
Date:	2/8/2014 9:16:16 PM

GoneFishin, you only chose to comment on the part of the story that you felt comfortable in offering a rebuttal. Would you share your thoughts on the waste of the tax payers money on the rediculus TV advertising used to try and gain support for Obamacare?  If Obamacare is so great for the country, why should it be necessary to spend such an exorbitant amount of dollars to convince us that we need it?

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Advertising Cost for Obamacare
Date:	2/8/2014 10:26:38 PM

Goofy doesn't address facts that don't support his argument.....much like the current administration.  He picks the one attaboy buried in a mountain of awhsits and trumpets it like it is the only thing that matters.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Advertising Cost for Obamacare
Date:	2/8/2014 10:36:51 PM

The budget is alot of money. But, it is old news and was reported back in July-August 2013. Where were you when it was first reported? You were silent like a lamb. Now, you wanna know why I did not comment. 

Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	Advertising Cost for Obamacare
Date:	2/9/2014 2:36:29 AM

You seem to always find a means of avoiding the issue. My original input had nothing to do with whether or not the advertising was approved in the budget. Do you care to answer either of the two questions in my last input? If not, I think we might as well end any further comments on this subject!!!

Name:	muddauber -	Reply
Subject:	Costs of VA web site
Date:	2/9/2014 8:20:33 PM (updated 2/9/2014 8:22:14 PM)

Try 537 million.  Still does not work. Was supposed to help cut down the disabled backlog.

Well, I've had a clain in since April 2013.  This is an agent orange claim. Should be a slam dunk. Got a letter in Sept and Oct saing they were working on it.  Nothing since.

One of the many things that have hit me is remote neuropathy in my feet and legs.  Have virtuall no feeling below my knees except the arches of my feet.  It is continuing to apread up my legs.

I WAS going to Tuskeege for physical therapy to help me so I don't have so many falls etc.  Got kicked out of it as the VA program does not allow Tuskeege to work with my doctors in Birmingham.  Never mind it is the same centralized database for all VA med centers.  But one hospital cannot properly "talk" to another.  Sound familiar to Obamacare website?

 Oh, I deleted the accidental post above.  Sent before I even finished the subject.