Isn’t this the same as saying because I planned for my retirement I should forgo Social Security to insure the non-planners are taken care of.
absolutely not. Wounded combat vets couldn’t exactly PLAN could they?
You realize that until Clinton, for well over 100 years the VA was designed primarily to help those wounded in combat
and was until Clinton if you weren’t a wounded combat vet or service related injury vet or retired vet you couldnot get service
Clinton opened it up to anyone who was ever in the military period without increasing their budget.
To your point retired vets are like people who paid into SS for 20 or more years
and combat vets paid with going in harm’s way
Do you think someone who paid into SS for 3-4 years should get life long payments?
I respect the Posters service during the VN era and I am sure he respects those who were in country.
He has the luxury of getting medical care from his wife and Medicare 9 which BTW is analogus to SS)
If you have ever been to a VA you would understand the need to free up time for a wounded vet or someone who does not have the options of the poster
and the overcrowding is only going to get worse