We have to document extensively service connection. Are their some that abuse it, maybe pretending to have PTSD but don’t? Ya. But they are the exception not the rule, and they have to look in the mirror. Don’t make everyone wear a diaper because a few crapped their pants./
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They should take the PPP loan route & just not care who runs off with millions.
They're Americans. They signed up for and served us. None I've met are faking anything.
They deserve everything we as a wealthy nation can do for them
♥️🇺🇸
My husband is similar to many veterans. They do not casually apply disability claims unlike mega-wealthy ind. & business lobbying for tax cuts to boost their investors wealth.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/26/food-hard-find-fort-carson-base-struggles-feeding-soldiers.html
Meanwhile, draft-dodger trump, who called our war dead ‘suckers & losers,’ has been elected to the presidency
The VA didn't even acknowledge his ship's exposure to agent orange until 2011,
They wouldn't have even considered it until 32 years after he returned from his tour of duty, and even then,
Why in the hell should our warriors bear the cost on top of their pain and suffering just because a link to their service wasn't discovered in time?
But it's totally cool for Nero to play golf while the country was dying from COVID.
Service-related disability is hard earned and deserved.
What if we say…you should have taken precautions, you shouldn’t have been near the pits. Your health, our choice, Right?
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/current-enforcement-efforts-in-the-7602180/
We all have varieties of PTSD.
How can you not?
Boot camp alone is a mind fucking torture.
What would be the chain of command for a decision like that?
Unprotected soldiers had to have raised the issue up the ladder.
So how did that get approval?
But we also had to burn 30 gallon drums of human waste using JP8 and I don’t think there’s a registry for that 🤔
If the GOPs answer to that one person who may be abusing welfare is gutting welfare, why shouldn't that answer be used to address veterans benefits fraud?
I don't think either program should be gutted because some fraud.
How about we focus on the top 1% instead of taking away earned benefits from the few (<1% of Americans) who serve?
Doesn't matter what system
My point is why is fraud more affordable than others?
https://bsky.app/profile/lauremiller.bsky.social/post/3lcgsy3nt5c2g
General Mattis and his family deserve respect. I can only imagine the embarrassment and anger he must have felt. I would have choked Trump out right there. I admire his restraint. #TrumpIsAFacist
Agent orange is still found on cargo planes still being used.
Thank you for your service.💙
Thanks, Task and Purpose.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/spending-veterans-has-blown-out-controlscuts-protests-waldbewohner-pcauc/
https://medium.economist.com/why-are-the-economists-writers-anonymous-8f573745631d
I'm waiting to see the headline 'Tax Breaks for Billionaires Absurdly generous.' An enormous rise is corporate subsidies and tax loopholes for the rich complicate efforts to reduce debt.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/11/28/american-veterans-now-receive-absurdly-generous-benefits
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/spending-veterans-has-blown-out-controlscuts-protests-waldbewohner-pcauc/
I am 100% PTSD due my kidnapping and torture.
Not reason I get 100%
I get 100% because I agreed to pay $70 trillion to President Reagan administration to cover operations.
I paid the bill.
Veterans can get these benefits.
Donald cuts.
Republicans view the world of cheaters just like them.
Gulf War Syndrome, burn pits, oil well fires…
EVERYTHING was dumped in that thing.
I know too many vets who refuse to file because they feel others were hurt more. I know fewer that played tricks to inflate their filing, like the ED claim. Even fewer have 100% T&P.
Joe made big strides for homeless vets. Orangina is going to create homeless vets.
Hope the analogy is apparent to all.
‘… we have the deepest respect for every Australian who wears our nation’s uniform and serves selflessly to keep us safe. Now we will work tirelessly to improve the system and keep them safe too.’ PM Anthony Albanese.
But.... Many Veterans can work at the lower levels.
Don't doubt; try to understand the system instead.
1) elect people who won't send troops into conflicts where we don't have a critical national interest, a definition of when we're going to end it.
2) get the troops what they need to do the job
3) support them afterward, no matter what it takes.
I'm an MS person as well. And Trump wants to take away both our benefits, and rights to healthcare at all.
Trump did nothing for vets.
The PACT ACT kept getting tabled.
If Americans would watch their Congress votes on TV.
They'd see who is for the people.
But
Unfortunately.... Americans don't like doing homework and research.
So we are doomed to fall.
No education, no home
PROPOSAL
But many, we are just tools.
Sad AF.
They refused to compensate 9/11 first responders for years
Republicans have been talking big about veterans while shafting them for over 15 years, maybe more
Five years ago.
Maybe 25, and that’s a stretch.
Your party hasn’t given a shit about the troops in ages, mah dude.
After all, it was chiefly Republicans which championed going into Iraq in 2003.
Know what WOULD help veterans, and every other American as well? Universal healthcare.
just as committed to our Constitution & national values (even if those values were still mostly aspirational)
Learned my lesson in 2020.
It’s time to leave the party. You don’t have to become a Democrat, but you need to let the Republican Party go - it has become a danger to the Republic.
It’s no act of valor to remain in a party that seeks to undermine the very foundations of this country.
I suppose a few republicans did things to help the vets, but I'll guess that was far and few between.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/veterans-disability-benefits-cuts/
IF they really cared about either vets or babies, they wouldn't vote for caring for either group the way they do.
has not said anything about the hostages. the next one in line just gave them an end date to set them free. i have a hard time understanding how we hear the same things but end up with different view points
What's their excuse?
Yet, so few see it that way. You're welcome, Julia. Thank you for not seeing us veterans as inconvenient but as human beings.
as long as I can remember they opposed doing anything but making new vet's or killing troops for the benefit of the defense industry.
Walk a mile in his shoes while hobbled by painful bone spurs
He deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom for sure.
His orange majesties service trumps your service every time
Heroes like @fpwelman.bsky.social went on the road, going into people’s towns, trying to warn them.
No one joins the military so they can get a check from the VA.
Proving a disability requires documentation, doctor exams, and reviews.
Vets that get disability benefits have earned it.