JoeB131
Diamond Member
Veterans deserve what they get. Most also will not be voting for Obama which is why he wants to surpress their votes.
Really?
Frankly, I'm having a hard time justifying that I should get lifetime medical benefits because I was active duty military for a few years in peacetime in the late 1980's.
It was a job, for which I was paid money, until I moved on to something else.
If I sustained injuries in combat, then, yeah, that's what the VA should be there for.
Ironically, the VA is exactly the sort of government agency you guys should be against. When it started, you had lots of injured vets from the world wars who really needed help. Up until the Iraq War, with the percentage of us who carry a DD214 dwindling, they expanded what they offered to keep their budgets up to the same levels.
The benfits are on a sliding scale, you must apply with your income and from there they determine how much of a copay you have. To many it is not free, but it is very good health insurance by a very good operation.
Which means I wouldn't qualify for it, and I'm sure it's a good system for those who need it.
But you see, if you are going to say that health care benefits should be earned and not a public service like the rest of the world does it (and I'm playing devil's advocate here), why should someone get a lifetime of benefits because after he left the military, he hasn't been able to find a better paying job...
If you give free healthcare to anyone else, it's more along the lines of "SOOOCIALISM", but they are totally good with socialism for veterans, probably because a lot of them feel guilty about not signing up themselves.