Posted on May 13, 2016
As a veteran or active duty service member do you feel that your issues are being addressed?
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I ask this because the Senate is set to vote on the FY2017 budget and it includes cuts to VA benefits and military spending focusing on more out sourcing of military jobs. Do you think you should have to serve 15 year to qualify for medical retirement due to injuries suffered in combat? Do you believe that government should be able to sue you for your signing bonus if you fall to serve your full term of your enlistment due to hardships suffered during combat? Do believe that if you suffer disabling injuries during ative duty and are not allowed military retirement pension that you should receive the Maximum VA pension? Do you think that the most severely disabled service connected disabled veteran should receive Quality Of Life payments? Do you think that Veterans even have a right to ask for such support?
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LCpl Timothy McCain - when I joined in 1972 there were no restrictions to your benefits... if you got fucked up in service to your country, you were taken care of. I believe that any erosion of those benefits should require politicians to serve in he military. Bet there would be a quick reversal!
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I personally believe we should cut the Senate and House members salary down and put that money towards VA benefits.
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SPC Lyle Montgomery
They should not get the health benefits that vets do and they should have been required to go on Obama care and lose their sweethart insurance as most Americans did. The vets in office should be the only ones to recieve healthcare at military hospitals such as Bethesda.
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As of right now, we can cut the entire DOD and VA budget to zero and still be in a deficit. We need to look at cutting other areas. The people who serve should be the last to get cut.
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Are these "wickets" to support the subject of past or proposed legislations? If so, there is a SERIOUS problem. Where can I go to get information straight from the horses mouth?
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LCpl Timothy McCain
How $1.4 billion in budget cuts will impact Veterans - VAntage Point
HAC marked up the 2016 Veterans Affairs funding bill, and slashed more than $1.4 billion from the president’s requested budget for America’s Veterans
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The services are always getting screwed by the congress and senate members who never wore the uniform. I feel fortunate myself to get good VA healthcare in Omaha NE. I'm a vietnam combat Army vet. It does seem that combat troops of the Army and Marine Corps do get some preferential treatment but they had the shittiest job of all. I have friends that served honorably and don't seem to get the same ratings that combat vets do. All who served deserve to be treated fairly,and some don't get the same treatment.
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I am not a good person to say anything. I have never used any of my veteran's benefits
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Timothy, honestly son I didn't know that Marines could think such deep thoughts! Lol! Just kidding young man. Seriously, it sounds like another ploy they used in taking away the GI Bill and then giving it back, Agent Orange benefits, and then giving them back. Frankly those morons forget who they're working for! They're work for us not the other way around! Admittedly they probably are put in harms way when calling for a cab to get out of town for holiday, or something equally serious such as lunch breaks. They think their king sh*ts when they visit a war zone and get their helmets and flak jackets and are so far removed from the action that the slightest noise of an M80 going off makes them duck and sh*t their pants. F'ing cowards! If you fought and got hurt, no matter what the circumstances son, you're entilted and they need to stop screwing with our benefits.
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