American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits
American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits
An enormous rise in disability payments may complicate debt-reduction efforts
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meaning he loves America’s armed forces.
Only the ones that "didn't get caught". In what fucking world do veterans get "absurdly generous" benefits? Definitely not the veterans I know, who wait months to receive middling at best medical care.... Oh there it is. Because the benefits budget has increased, clearly veterans get too much personally. lol
They also seem to think a monthly payment of 2200 to 4000 a month is "absurdly generous". That's not even enough to live (period) as a single-person's independent income in most medium cost of living areas, especially if you have even the tiniest medical expense that's not covered.
Seriously. This article is an embarrassment. Yeah, no shit, our disability payments have gone through the roof. A decade of the War on Terror will due that. Ironically, much of this has come from better medical technology; many people now survive with disabilities that previously wouldn't have come home at all.
I tried to look up the author of the article, but they seem to be cowardly not sharing it. How much you want to bet it was penned by some neocon who was pushing for the Iraq War before it happened?
Definitely not the veterans I know, who wait months to receive middling at best medical care
I was going to say similar. Maybe their allotted benefits look attractive, but good luck receiving them in any useful timeframe. Even taking the article at face value, they have "absurd" benefits in theory, but get a fraction of them in practice.
what the fuck is this bootlicking-ass propaganda-ass article and what is it doing on my feed 👎👎👎👎
Let's pretend the article's position has any merit. So the fuck what? Veterans deserve even more for laying down their lives. Don't like it? Stop war mongering and killing my friends.
I'm going to go with absolutely fucking not.
I love how this article leaves whomever wrote this blank.
Probably because some veterans want to make him disabled.
I’m not defending the article, because it’s some serious bullshit, but not having a byline is standard practice at the Economist. It’s one of their gimmicks which is supposed to imply objectivity and represent a “collective voice,” but I think it causes more harm and confusion than anything else.
Meanwhile, they vote maga.
Why does anyone post this fascist rag?
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