Synthaholic
Diamond Member
They should be paying a hell of a lot more than that. The VA was meant only for injuries suffered during service, not for every paper cut suffered by some fat fuck retired sergeant opening up his government check envelope. Then politicians looking for votes expanded it, helping to bankrupt the country.Politics doesn't supercede what that man did in Vietnam, nor what happened to him there.
I agree with you almost all the time Mac, but not here. McCain started this childish back and forth. I appreciate his service, and I can't hope to know the hell he went through; but he betrayed his fellow veterans by supporting cutting benefits for those in the military. TRICARE of all things. He of all people should know better.
McCain Joins Obama s Call for Military Benefit Cuts
Apparently, rotting in a prison cell in North Vietnam didn't teach him enough respect for his fellow veterans. Or was that whole "I want to stay in prison with my comrades" thing just for show? That experience should have taught him that vets deserve to be pampered, appreciated, and supported--- not treated like second class citizens by the government they swore their lives to.
Hey Chief Sitting Couch, the proposal was to make retirees pay a whopping $200 a year for insurance. I'm sure you spend more a year on Twinkies.