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Hey Dickweed! How many fucking Amazon workers are on public assistance, or Medicaid?
Guess veterans ought to just piss in a plastic bottle like his fucking warehouse employees.
This is such bullshit!
Please allow someone who was there, and intimately involved in the "rise in claims" since 2001 explain it.
This increase was due to "bipartisan" work in Congress. Passed during the Clinton administration and strengthened during the Bush II and Obama years.
It was an initiative called the "Transition Assistance Program", or TAP for short.
For decades, veterans retiring or separating from military service were simply presented some appreciation certificates, parting gifts, a couple of phone numbers, a DD214 and a handshake, or salute.
What we in the military discovered, is that veterans were leaving billions in earned compensation on the table.
Hell, there were hundreds of thousands of vets that NEVER used their GI Bill for education, leaving millions in ALREADY OBLIGATED DOD FUNDS unused. Former Virginia Senator James Webb is the one who helped push through changes in the GI Bill that allowed veterans to transfer some, or all of their unused EARNED education benefits to their spouse, or children.
This was all part of the TAP program.
The TAP Program made it MANDATORY, for ALL Honorably separated military members to attend a one week course in what benefits were available to them as they transitioned to civilian life.
One thing TAP required, was to have experts from the VA review the veterans Medical Records to identify things that might entitle the veteran to some disability coverage, or VA Medical care. These were things like asbestos exposure, hearing loss, joint and bone injuries, chronic disease, vision loss, burn pit exposure, etc.
Even if the VA found something, the veteran still needed to apply and go through a rigorous screening and review process to determine if they were eligible for disability.
The reason for the increase in claims, is because America FINALLY took action to ensure our veterans were provided more than a KICK IN THE ASS when they separated.
These disability claims are ALL PART OF THE CONTRACT AMERICA MADE WITH HER VETERANS.
Of course, the multi-hundred-billion, billionaire delivery person, would see these veterans as takers and losers.
Let me give you just one example of what VA Disability means to one of my good friends and Shipmates.
He served Honorably for 26 years, obtaining the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer. Several years after he retired, his body began to breakdown. He has Huntingtons Disease. A terrible, disastrous genetic disease that I wouldn't even wish on Jeff Bozos.
Here is how military service works. I was on-duty 24/fucking 7, 365. If you were involved in a car accident, or hurt in a pick-up Basketball game while on active duty...YOU WERE IN THE LINE-OF-DUTY when injured.
It took a long time and some work for my friend to be able to show that you have Huntingtons Disease from the day you were born. Therefore, even though the symptoms didn't show up until after he retired...he had this disease while he was IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
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