Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Washington Post Fact Checks Obama’s Claim That ‘A Whole Bunch Of People Who Are In Charge’ At VA Were Fired And They Give Him? Four “Pinocchios!
The Washington Post has given four “Pinocchios” to President Barack Obama’s claim that his administration has fired many of the people running various VA facilities that were at the heart of wait-time scandals regarding the poor treatment of American veterans — meaning the commander in chief’s statement was completely untrue.
“I don’t want to, in any way, pretend that we are where we need to be, but we have, in fact, fired a whole bunch of people who are in charge of these facilities,” Obama told CNN’s Jake Tapper at a town hall in Fort Lee, Virginia, on Sept. 28.
However, after doing some fact-checking, the Post found that only three employees were removed from their jobs as a result of the scandal. One received a 15-day suspension while another was proposed to be removed but ultimately got to stay. Three more VA employees retired or resigned as the agency was reviewing possible disciplinary action against them, five more resigned before they could be fired and two were demoted, but later reinstated to their previous positions.
That means while “a whole bunch” of employees who may have had a hand in the patient wait-time scandal are no longer with the agency, only three employees who were “in charge,” as Obama said, were actually fired.
VA spokeswoman Victoria Glynn told the Post that the Choice Act gave the government the authority to fire those three individuals but that the law isn’t the only one that informs such decisions. Asked how many people were fired under the authority of any other act besides the Choice Act, the Post reported it did not get an answer.
Phoenix VA director Sharon Helman and four other senior executives were either removed or demoted from their jobs under the Choice Act, but the Post reported those actions had little, if anything, to do with patient wait-times. Of the five, only Helman’s case reportedly involved wait-times. Helman, however, wasn’t ultimately fired for that reason. Instead, She was let go after failing to disclose thousands of dollars in lobbyist gifts.
At least seven more VA employees were recommended to be removed from their jobs but ultimately managed to keep working for the agency. Six non-senior executives were fired for their roles in the patient wait-time scandal, but the Post did not include those since Obama specified that people “in charge” had been fired.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Feb. 5, 2010 Obama Cuts NASA Funding, February 13, 2012 Obama Want Smaller NASA Budget For 2013, Obama In 2017 Want NASA Budget of $19 Billion with Big Exploration Cuts Barack Obama Say's In 2016: America Will Take The Giant Leap To Mars? But Hold On Here, Obama’s NASA Budget Is All About Global Warming, Not Space?
Obama’s NASA Budget Is All About Global Warming, Not Space
The NASA budget President Barack Obama released Tuesday is far more concerned with spending cash on global warming research than supporting the agency’s mission of space exploration.The top scientific question the space agency claims it wants to answer in its budget justification is “How are Earth’s climate and the environment changing?” The more typical space questions, such as “Are we alone?” and “How does the universe work?,” were at the very bottom of the list.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/10/obamas-nasa-budget-is-all-about-global-warming-not-space/
2.Barack Obama will ask Congress for $17.7 billion for NASA for 2013, an amount that would leave the agency funded at its lowest level in four years, according to sources familiar with the forthcoming budget proposal. NASA’s planetary science division would shoulder a heavy share of the cut. Under the president’s proposal, its budget would drop from $1.5 billion to $1.
http://www.space.com/14544-president-obama-nasa-budget-2013.html
3. The Obama Administration has announced its new Federal budget and is proposing to cut NASA’s Fiscal Year 2017 Budget to $19 billion by carving away significant funding for deep space exploration, whereas the overall US Federal budget actually increases to over $4.1 trillion.
http://www.universetoday.com/127309/nasa-2017-budget/
One of my earliest memories is sitting on my grandfather's shoulders, waving a flag as our astronauts returned to Hawaii. This was years before we'd set foot on the moon. Decades before we'd land a rover on Mars. A generation before photos from the International Space Station would show up in our social media feeds.
I
still have the same sense of wonder about our space program that I did
as a child. It represents an essential part of our character --
curiosity and exploration, innovation and ingenuity, pushing the
boundaries of what's possible and doing it before anybody else. The
space race we won not only contributed immeasurably important
technological and medical advances, but it also inspired a new
generation of scientists and engineers with the right stuff to keep
America on the cutting edge.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/opinions/america-will-take-giant-leap-to-mars-barack-obama/index.html
Friday, October 7, 2016
Obama vs Putin, Obama Focuses on Ending the Cold War. US Accuses Russia Of Hacking Political Sites? Ending The Cold War You Say Obama?
The U.S. is accusing Russia of hacking political sites, saying it is trying to interfere with the upcoming presidential election. Intelligence officials say they are confident that the Russian government directed the recent breaches of emails from American people and institutions, including U.S. political organizations.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security have released a joint statement saying that based on the "scope and sensitivity" of the hacking efforts, only Russia's "senior-most officials" could have authorized these activities.
Pressure has been mounting on the Obama administration to call out Russia on the hacking of political groups, including the Democratic National Committee
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/07/us-accuses-russia-hacking-political-sites.html
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