Welfare Recipients Receive More Benefits than Permanently Disabled Combat Vet
Nov 2, 2013 12:29:30 #
OK My computer is going nuts. I am 100% disabled retired vet. I get my retirement check from SSG E6, $1400+ then another $1700 from Combat Related Special Compensation. Look it up under CRSC on the computer and download all the papers and instructions and get the money owed to you. The GOVERNMENT does not want you to know about it. Then get your Social Security Disability and you are sitting pretty. MORE then Welfare Recipients.
Nov 2, 2013 12:29:37 #
OK My computer is going nuts. I am 100% disabled retired vet. I get my retirement check from SSG E6, $1400+ then another $1700 from Combat Related Special Compensation. Look it up under CRSC on the computer and download all the papers and instructions and get the money owed to you. The GOVERNMENT does not want you to know about it. Then get your Social Security Disability and you are sitting pretty. MORE then Welfare Recipients.
Nov 2, 2013 12:42:13 #
As a disabled Vietnam veteran I have strong opinions on this. First I know or know of two former VA doctors who admit that the VA is k*****g veterans and if you read the papers within the last month more deaths were reported at the hands of the VA. These doctors do not believe it is intentional, but due to incompetence. I have also read that as many as 40% of eligible veterans will not or can not use the VA medical facilities due to distance or treatment.
I think, although I know of no studies, that if eligible veterans were given health insurance for them and their families this would solve a lot of the problem. Also I believe that enough money would be saved to allow all veterans who served honorably to be given low cost health insurance when discharged to cover them and their families. Of course I mean something totally different than Obama care. A current program for retired military called Tricare could work with a little modification and allow veterans to have insurance like most of the citizens, instead of being second class citizens.
I believe all this might cost less than the current budget of just the VA medical service. While I have been required to use the VA medical since I became disabled in service I know there are some kind and caring individuals who work there, but there are also some who only want the money or to finish their medical training with the least amount of effort.
Another mistake with this article is that disabled veterans receive compensation NOT WELFARE. It is called compensation to adjust them for the loss income they would have if they were not injured in service. Also if you check the unemployment rates for just plain uninjured veterans you'll find that it is higher than the general population even with all the special programs to help them. Now try to imagine what it is for disabled veteran or not.
Welfare per say is suppose to be a temporary program to help those in need to get back on their feet. There are abusers as this person appears to be, but that does not mean that there are many more who use it only to help until they can get regular jobs and be self supporting. There are solutions to abusers, but that is another whole can of worms.
Many of you hit on socialism as being all bad, but government planning is not necessarily so. I recently read an article in Time magazine about all the billionaires in Sweden, one of the most socialists countries there is and a country with an average tax rate that would make most of you cry. Yet Sweden has set up a free market system that encourages business development and growth, thus allowing for their large number of billionaires, for a high tax socialist country.
One last point, I know many disabled people on Social Security Disability, who would jump (if they could) at the change for a regular paying job, but the one thing that stops them is the loss of medical care or Medicare. They need more medical assistance than most and unless they get a job paying a lot and one they know will last, they do not want to give up Social Security which does not pay that much, because once off Soc. Sec. it is very hard to get back on it for most. This is one of the reasons I support a general health care program, which many countries have, but NOT Obama care or anything like the VA medical system. I believe a reasonable health care system would allow more people to seek and hold jobs than sit at home and stair at the walls or watch the i***t box and become brain damaged in addition to what ever other disability they have.
I think, although I know of no studies, that if eligible veterans were given health insurance for them and their families this would solve a lot of the problem. Also I believe that enough money would be saved to allow all veterans who served honorably to be given low cost health insurance when discharged to cover them and their families. Of course I mean something totally different than Obama care. A current program for retired military called Tricare could work with a little modification and allow veterans to have insurance like most of the citizens, instead of being second class citizens.
I believe all this might cost less than the current budget of just the VA medical service. While I have been required to use the VA medical since I became disabled in service I know there are some kind and caring individuals who work there, but there are also some who only want the money or to finish their medical training with the least amount of effort.
Another mistake with this article is that disabled veterans receive compensation NOT WELFARE. It is called compensation to adjust them for the loss income they would have if they were not injured in service. Also if you check the unemployment rates for just plain uninjured veterans you'll find that it is higher than the general population even with all the special programs to help them. Now try to imagine what it is for disabled veteran or not.
Welfare per say is suppose to be a temporary program to help those in need to get back on their feet. There are abusers as this person appears to be, but that does not mean that there are many more who use it only to help until they can get regular jobs and be self supporting. There are solutions to abusers, but that is another whole can of worms.
Many of you hit on socialism as being all bad, but government planning is not necessarily so. I recently read an article in Time magazine about all the billionaires in Sweden, one of the most socialists countries there is and a country with an average tax rate that would make most of you cry. Yet Sweden has set up a free market system that encourages business development and growth, thus allowing for their large number of billionaires, for a high tax socialist country.
One last point, I know many disabled people on Social Security Disability, who would jump (if they could) at the change for a regular paying job, but the one thing that stops them is the loss of medical care or Medicare. They need more medical assistance than most and unless they get a job paying a lot and one they know will last, they do not want to give up Social Security which does not pay that much, because once off Soc. Sec. it is very hard to get back on it for most. This is one of the reasons I support a general health care program, which many countries have, but NOT Obama care or anything like the VA medical system. I believe a reasonable health care system would allow more people to seek and hold jobs than sit at home and stair at the walls or watch the i***t box and become brain damaged in addition to what ever other disability they have.
Nov 2, 2013 12:57:12 #
rhomin57 wrote:
I h**e the way America treats their vets, honestly... (show quote)
I also commend you. As a separate observation, your response to reality used to be the norm rather than the exception in days gone by. I lament that fact because it goes to nearly every problem we now face and discuss on this forum: Personal responsibility and character.
Nov 2, 2013 13:02:52 #
rhomin57 wrote:
I h**e the way America treats their vets, honestly... (show quote)
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: I salute you!
Nov 3, 2013 14:40:41 #
The sequestration was submitted in a bill by congress and the president signed it. Sequestration will continue to cut all government controlled programs. Money for Disabled Combat Vets comes from taxpayers and unless one side concedes something, the other side is not going to give more. Go on and blame one side if it makes you feel good but you are barking up the wrong tree.
Tax cuts for corporation were extended and that didn't help.
What is the root of your blame and complain persona? I noted congress promised to fix things with the sequestration as motivation and they failed. So now I'm a left-wing socialist, radical l*****t because I wrote that? You may need to re-read what I wrote next time before pulling the labeling trigger.
Tax cuts for corporation were extended and that didn't help.
What is the root of your blame and complain persona? I noted congress promised to fix things with the sequestration as motivation and they failed. So now I'm a left-wing socialist, radical l*****t because I wrote that? You may need to re-read what I wrote next time before pulling the labeling trigger.
OldSchool wrote:
Another bogus statement by a left-wing socialist. ... (show quote)
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