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Stinky The Clown

(67,676 posts)
Tue Jun 11, 2019, 11:22 PM Jun 2019

Thanks and get lost

Watching Jon Stewart at the hearing today (several threads here in GD) caused me to think of how we, as a country, are quick to say thanks but painfully slow to keep a promise or pay our debts.

The men and women Jon Stewart worked for today (and for years) are largely forgotten by the people who have the job of repaying them for their service and incredibly costly personal sacrifices.

Our vets - and not just new ones, but dating back to the oldest one still alive - are supposed to be served by the Veterans Administration. But how many are means tested? Just because they were luckier in life os no reason to tell them they can't get the benefits the NATION promised them. How many who meet all criteria for services are made to wait for what ought to be criminally long times. Go visit the lobby of you local VA hospital to see first hand what I'm describing. I've made that visit more times than I ever wanted to.

While there are programs and benefits for them, what about the families of the fallen? They also serve who only stand and wait. We owe them more than we can ever repay.

This country OWES these people.

Instead, its thoughtsandprayers and seeya around.

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Karadeniz

(22,270 posts)
2. This was all moving testimony. We could give them a dab of money right now by asking
Tue Jun 11, 2019, 11:34 PM
Jun 2019

Trump to return the money, intended to reimburse small businesses shut down after 9/11, which he applied for and received.

MasonDreams

(756 posts)
3. The system is more than just a little corrupt.
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:18 AM
Jun 2019

Dont you know they need that money to maim, brain damage & kill more of our son's and daughters overseas? Did you guys notice how quickly the "withdraw" from Syria and Afghanistan was reversed?

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
4. What you say yeah. Look out for yourself because this government will not.
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:35 AM
Jun 2019

They all should have been given respirators from the beginning. The first ones out, stop we got you respirator masks from the local hardware.

A New York thing, a national thing. I thought at the time to give them respirators.

Remember Christine Todd Whitman said the air was safe and fuck her forever.

Lonestarblue

(9,880 posts)
5. If only we had national health care!
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:40 PM
Jun 2019

This kind of special funding would be unnecessary because every person could get needed medical care.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
6. What's really scary about this is that as patriotic as we claim to be...
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 04:45 PM
Jun 2019

Conservatives really throw the most patriotic of us under the bus. And for that, fuck them.

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