The Podcast Patriot

Pros and Cons of Government Health Care

What is it about government health care that scares so many people and seems so enticing to others? Certainly, everyone wants to looks at specifics to justify their opinion, but the truth is that the debate for government healthcare is one not about details but grander philosophical and political opinion.

Continue Reading 3 comments August 12, 2009

The Solution to the Healthcare/Health-hell debate

So what can our Senators do to fight back and bring honest discourse to their constituents? How do they contend with Astroturf protests and Obama-sycophants?

Simple, print up bulletized versions of the healthcare bill, and ask everyone attending to spend their two hours going through the bill with the Congressman together.

Continue Reading Add comment August 12, 2009

Podcast Patriot made it on Snopes!!

The podcast patriot has made it ont many websites as an expert reference, but I take it a badge of honor that I am now being mentioned on Snopes! Am I now an urban myth?lol

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=35565

Add comment July 14, 2009

“You came home Bill Bailey. Where is your home?”

There are twenty five million who brag of America’s might,
Troopers , one in four of those who lack a bed tonight.
Neither food nor money, no market for their service or trades;
shiftless Soldiers, augured in battle that never fades

Continue Reading Add comment July 14, 2009

In-State Tuition & Fees Payable Under the Post-9/11 GI Bill

The VA had organized the numbers and listed them to Military.com. Here are the maximum In-State Tuition & Fees Payable Under the Post-9/11 GI Bill

This information is being made available to assist veterans and schools with their planning.

Continue Reading Add comment February 20, 2009

G.I. Bill New Transferability Benefits UPDATE 1/30/09

GI BILL TRANSFERABILITY – The Department of Defense has responsibility for implementing the new GI Bill’s transferability feature, which allows some service members to transfer unused benefits to spouses or children. This month DoD has moved to relax the transfer feature’s eligibility requirement for service members who are retirement-eligible or near so.

The new GI Bill law allows transfer of benefits to a spouse or to children only if service members are on active duty or in the Selected Reserve (drill status) as of Aug. 1, 2009, and agrees to serve an additional four years. The member must have served at least six years already to elect to transfer benefits to a spouse. They must have served 10 years already transfer benefits to children.

Continue Reading 2 comments January 23, 2009

VA Announces Travel Reimbursement Increases for Veterans

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that eligible veterans will see an increase in the mileage reimbursement they receive for travel to VA facilities for medical care.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake announced today that he will use his authority to raise the mileage reimbursement from the 28.5 cents per mile to 41.5 cents per mile for all eligible veterans.

Continue Reading Add comment December 1, 2008

Enhanced VA Mortgage Options Now Available for Veterans

WASHINGTON (Oct.24) — Veterans with conventional home loans now have new options for refinancing to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) guaranteed home loan. These new options are available as a result of the Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2008, which the President signed into law on October 10, 2008.

Continue Reading Add comment October 27, 2008

The VA’s Difficulty With The New G.I. Bill

The Department of Veterans Affairs is in a pickle. Tasked by Congress to implement the new Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, the VA has failed to discover how it will complete the creation of a working program by the August 1st, 2009 deadline (when the new benefits take effect).

In fact, the program has to be operational long before then so that the appropriate training can be done for VA education workers, and materials can be provided to assist veterans learn how to navigate the news system. However, the VA has run into some problems.

Continue Reading 3 comments October 24, 2008

Should America Fear the Word “Socialism”?

Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been accusing presidential candidate Barack Obama of being a socialist, but do Americans even understand what that term means today? I think not: Especially when the terms socialism and communism seemed to be used interchangeably and erroneously thrown about as antonyms to capitalism and democracy.

First—get this straight—capitalism and democracy are not the same thing. Democracy is a system of government and capitalism is a system of economy. You can have a communist and capitalist society (look at China). You can also have a democratic-socialist society, a socialist-capitalist society, etc.

Continue Reading 4 comments October 22, 2008