Hatchet Job By Ap On Veterans

[71M10]

Well folks The AP story with a header stating "US still making payments to relatives of Civil War veterans, analysis finds" would make you think this story is about Civil war veterans. However it really is about all the money being paid to Veterans. I find the way the story is formated and the billions and billions being paid out in compensation was the real subject, not the two civil war vet children who get $876 per year.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/20/us-still-paying-for-costs-civil-war-analysis-finds/#ixzz2O5cvOr6Q

I think forces are at work who really want to means test veterans compensation payments.

Who wants to bet within the next two weeks we will see a story on Disabled vets collecting VA disability pay, Soc Sec disability, and disability pay from post office or other federal job?

Stay Aware and Care!

Edited March 20, 2013 by 71M10

[john999]

Alan Simpson is a cheap jerk who represents a group of people in the US political system that believes everyone who gets a check from the government is a scam artist except for himself. He lived off the taxpayers for years as a senator. Now him and his kind want to take it away from war widows, children and totally disabled vets who depend on the SSD/SSA and VA benefits to survive. Yet, vets often vote for these people who openly declare their intentions to cut benefits for vets. Means testing may sound good to some but everyone should get their "earned benefits" be that SSA, Medicare, federal pensions or VA.

John

[indyman]

I read that piece, and that comment about Vietnam and the "uncertain link" of Agent Orange exposure and diebetes just shows how stupid this guy is. If he knows his stuff so well, he needs to be working in the VA lab somewhere and finding a cure for Agent Orange diseases. If you don't know about something, don't write articles acting like you do. That just shows how downhill AP has gone, when they let stuff like this get published.

[john999]

What the public knows about Vietnam vets today is represented by Uncle Si on Duck Dynesty....crazy old guys who like to blow up things quack, quack. We have gone from villians to comical figures in the American imagination.

[Stretch]

I really liked Alan Simpson for many years for his comical speech's. Alan is a Veteran, but seems to torch Veterans now a days. I don't care much for him now. Here are some of his anarchist comments.

In Simpson’s words to this Court, “I was a monster.”
One day in Cody, Wyoming, when Simpson was in high school, he and some friends “went out to do damage.” They went to an abandoned war relocation structure and decided to “torch” it. They committed arson on federal property, a crime now punishable by up to twenty years in prison if no one is hurt, and punishable by up to life in prison if the arson causes a person’s death. Luckily for Simpson, no one was injured in the blaze.
Simpson not only played with fire, but also with guns. He played a game with his friends in which they shot at rocks close to one another, at times using bullets they stole from the local hardware store. The goal of the game was to come as close as possible to striking someone without actually doing so. Again, Simpson was lucky: no one was killed or seriously injured.
Simpson and his friends went shooting throughout their community. They fired their rifles at mailboxes, blowing holes in several and killing a cow. They fired their weapons at a road grader. “We just raised hell,” Simpson says. Federal authorities charged Simpson with destroying government property and Simpson pleaded guilty. He received two years of probation and was required to make restitution from his own funds – funds that he was supposed to obtain by holding down a job.
... As he [simpson] has described it, “The older you get, the more you realize . . . your own attitude is stupefying, and arrogant, and cocky, and a miserable way to live.”