If your a VET and this doesn't p.i.s.s you off....
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Read the whole article. I did not know how bad it is.
Pete Hegseth: Democrats to America's veterans – You're too dumb to choose
Pete Hegseth: Democrats to America's veterans – You're too dumb to choose
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Bohica!
(bend over, here it comes again, for those of you who, like most of Congress, are without military experience)
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I spent my whole life in the dod. I know of no one except for me who hasn't claimed ear ringing. For line guys like Paul, I believe it. For a contracting officer who never deployed? Eff you bro. Everyone also loves to claim sore knees and a whole host of other shytte in order to beef up their number. Of course you have sore knees, you're a middle aged dude! We all have that stuff, and you'd haveit whether or not you served... End result: a clogged system.
A lot of guys with 19 in spend their last year cramming sleep apnea and ankle sprains into their medical records so it gets the service connected designation. I have 6 retirees that work for me who have +80 percent designations (equals cash in pocket) who ALL CrossFit circles around my fat 10 percent ****.
Funny story, I was at the VA hospital here in Vegas and saw a guy wheeling around on a creeper board. No legs, no right arm, half a left arm. THAT GUY is 100 percent disabled. Not the guy with tenitis and sleep apnea.
It's ok...I believe in carma. I claimed my carpel tunnel and a bum rotator cuff that I got falling off of an f15. When the CTS got bad, I called the VA for help. In 3 weeks, I was getting the laser surgery. In with bad hands, out like it never happened.
Rant over.....
But I did claim my back injury, which is hurting like hell again today. No, I don't get a check. Never asked for one. The lady I had to talk to said
"Son, they're not gonna give you a check for this."
I told her I wasn't looking for a check, but since I was obviously going to have back pain every day for the rest of my life, for doing what I was told, I did think that I should get treatment.
She said
"Oh we treat everyone, look around."
I said
"I've been looking around, and I don't think I should have to wait in line behind people who've never served a single day in their life."
She approved the claim.
I've had some degree of back pain every single day since May 16th 1986. Yesterday and today I can't do hardly anything I want to do because it's flared up again. Can't complain too much though, I was able to put on my own shoes and walk around, so, it's been worse.
Rant over, sorry, the back pain makes me grouchy sometimes.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Fakes are going to happen in the military and civilian life, what a surprise.
Criminal Illegal Immigrant Aliens are treated better then our military people. And no one seems to care.
Now benefits that are finally being offered are haveing the xxxxxxxxx famous we don't care hammer and chisel reducing, or at least attempting to reduce them if not outright do away with them.
I have had tinnitus since I got out. Hearing problems since I gout out. And a really screwed up finger since I got out. Screwed up teeth since I got out. Chronic Venous Stasis because of an injury when I was in. No benefits.
I would say that a lot of the biggest for profit colleges sell students (their customers) a bunch of promises that they don't deliver. That promise is a competitive degree, which many of them never give.
From where I'm sitting, I see that both I and many of my colleagues don't value a u of p BA as much as we do a BA from a non profit. Sorry brothers, but it's true. 5 week semesters and credit for life experience just doesn't cut it for me.i need that BA candidate to sit in college algebra for a whole semester, not get credit for the babysitting side job she ran from her house 10 years ago. (I've seen this happen). That business law class needs to be more than 5 3 hour classes long. Hell, mine was 16 3 hour class sessions, and you can't tell me that you learn the same material in 5 weeks that you do in 16.
Now. I understand your point about restricting choices. I wouldn't go as far as to say that this equates to sub-illegal alien treatment, but to each his own. I will tell you though that the military has been blacklisting businesses for, oh, about 200 years or so. When I was in, Troops couldn't go to jd byrider or payday loan places. True story!
I do agree that trade schools are important, but not all are banned. The very unfortunate fact of the matter is that most of the for profit schools are crap, and a lot of them are predatory, charging 200K for a welding certificate that a guy will use to start at 17 bucks an hour....all paid for by the department of education and giving that welder no shot of ever repaying the student loan ...
However, I'm not one to buy into the bullshhhyyyte of Republicans OR Democrats. Republicans claim that these schools are being blacklisted because the Democrats want the military guys to be brainwashed by liberal thinking non profit schools and teachers...if you believe that, I have some gurkha, I'm I mean cohiba Cubans to sell you...
I won't wave a flag and claim to be a supporter of corporate America, but I damn sure won't ever trust a leftist, either. Our soldiers are willing to give everything for this country, and it's about time the politicians start doing the same. As far as I'm concerned, I won't ask for a handout and won't expect one, but there are other veterans out there who desperately need help.
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter