For what it's Worth I am a disabled combat veteran. 90%and guess what I work my tail off 80hr work weeks just to make ends meet so I say if there giving stuff to vets and discounts to veterans yea I will take it I think after all the pain, blood, and suffering we all did why not as to this guy.
Just read and don't skip over please.
I'm a disabled combat veteran and I just wanted to say thank you for your opinion. The freedom of speech that you enjoy using. That is why I serverd so that way people can have their own opinions and can voice their opinion. I don't agree with your opinion but that's just how it is. I just wanted to say thanks for voicing it. God bless the USA and our troops!
And for the last remark
If you can't stand behind out troops please Stand in front of them!
Semper Fi
Wow, I'd left this one pretty far in the rear view, but for whatever reason your comment generated an email notification. And it's worth a response.
I appreciate your seeming mutual respect, even if we don't share opinions. Thank you for your service, you folks in uniform perform valuable tasks that many of us can't or won't. I'm sorry to hear that you're having to work so hard to make ends meet, your disability finding makes it even worse to hear.
If I could walk back all the name calling and trolling of a couple years ago, I'd have tried to do more to make my point that while service members undoubtedly deserve fair treatment and benefits (and IMO a lot better ones than it sounds like you're getting), that I don't think you guys are the only members of society that deserve decency and dignity. A lot of the rhetoric on here about how everyone who isn't a former service member but has received a disability benefit is a worthless leech, based on "this one guy I knew once" stories, is what I was railing against at the time...at least in my mind. What I was trying and failed to say to the OP was "Not only do I think you deserve to have your needs met, I believe there are a lot of other people that do too, that one guy you knew once notwithstanding." An argument was ongoing wherein people who considered themselves "makers" were expressing disdain for "takers." My belief is that there's nothing wrong with taking advantage of something available to you if you need it, but that arguing against anyone ever taking money from the government while doing so seems to an outsider like a guy in a glass house winging rocks.
It's been shown that for every one person gaming the public benefits system to get more than they deserve, there are five or six eligible people who are either wrongly denied benefits or discouraged from even applying because of the negative stigma of receiving them or because they're wrongly denied. Instead of putting our efforts into finding these people (usually they're working two jobs and existing on the margins) and getting them the help they could really use to get on a stable footing and become even more productive members of society, we're focused on rooting out the (rare) cheaters while ignoring the (common) under-served. I don't think that's the most productive approach, but again it seems clear we're not going to share a lot and I don't expect to change your mind there.
This still won't satisfy most people, and even if I were to want to walk back my words all the way to where they'd satisfy everyone on here, I can't (and likely wouldn't). So I'm going to peace right the fuck on back out after voicing one more thanks to you for a well-voiced rebuttal. Continue the hate parade, folks...