dankie
Well-Known Member
No one in the public has ever voted on Veterans benefits. Veterans benefits have been around since before the revolutionary war, and were ordered by the Plymouth Colony in 1635.Med ...
The ONLY reason you have VA benefits is because of citizens like me who voted for them as a way of showing our appreciation of your service. You have no fucking "right" to those benefits at all. They are there because of the kindness of citizens like me. And yes, also like me, you paid into SS all of your life. So what? You and I were forced to pay into a system that returns around 1% on our "investment" dollar. Had your SS "investments" been placed into mutual funds over all those years you'd be a millionaire today ... and wouldn't be suffering from that class envy you're so full of. You socialists revere a SS system that is nothing but a house of cards. The funds have been used for other government projects and there is nothing but IOUs in the trust fund account. You paid into it all of your life and yet, if you die, no part of it can be willed to your spouse or offsprings. It was designed for a population that started recieving SS benefits at age 65 ... and then died at 67. That's your kind, compassionate, benevolent federal government for ya: Forced extraction of SS taxes for our entire working life. When we die, the federal government gets the benefits. Are you trying to tell us there isn't a better way? When will folks like you wake up and realize that every government "benefit" has a hook in it?
Vi
VA is not a right, but don't make it look like we the people out of the goodness of our hearts gave them to him.
He earned those benefits! Thank you for your service.
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