Damn Disgrace

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Here's a prime example of lack of experience talking. As KR pointed out ,there are some who are sucking on the teat, but many, many others who are suffering from PTSD. It manifests it's self in many different ways. A friend of mine slept with a loaded .357 under his pillow for a long time. His wife quit sleeping with him and his 4 year old daughter wasn't allowed in the bedroom when he was asleep. That all came to a head one night when he was a awakened by frogs croaking. He spent the next ten minutes stomping around out side screaming in rage and shooting at frogs. His wife left that night and refused to return until he got treatment, which he did.

I can relate at least 3 or 4 more cases I'm personally familiar with.

Yea, it's real. Only those who are stubbornly close minded or lack any kind of experience in such matters believe otherwise.

As for this particular case, I have yet to see anything offered to substantiate the father's claim. If I can find it, then I'll be very pissed. The Government and VA in particular has a history of screwing vets. Until then though, because there are those who lie about such things (who knows why) , I'll reserve my outrage for those things that are proven.


Comshaw

PTSD usta be the excuse du jour of Vets who never served in Vietnam or even the military. They usta come to the hospital for detox whining about their PTSD, I'd call the VA, and they were always imposters.

Based on my clinical experiences virtually every malingerer claiming PTSD had it before they joined the army, and were discharged in boot camp.

 

[VoteForMe]

PTSD usta be the excuse du jour of Vets who never served in Vietnam or even the military. They usta come to the hospital for detox whining about their PTSD, I'd call the VA, and they were always imposters.

Based on my clinical experiences virtually every malingerer claiming PTSD had it before they joined the army, and were discharged in boot camp.

I never let them know about my PTSDers

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

bumping for December and ToG

 

[TheOlderGuy]

bumping for December and ToG

aren't you the sweetest?

 

[unregistered]

 

[Peregrinator]

Show me.

Do you have LT on ignore?

 

[koalabear]

Do you have LT on ignore?

Most sane people do, then of course that would mean you don't.

 

[Peregrinator]

Stop with the shared account shit.

 

[koalabear]

Stop with the shared account shit.

Sure thing merc.

 

[miles]

Poor Perg. He just can't get a break.

 

[miles]

PTSD usta be the excuse du jour of Vets who never served in Vietnam or even the military.

How can they be a vet if they were never in the military?

 

[Peregrinator]

Show me.

http://www.disabledveterans.org/2011/07/18/obama-republicans-seek-23-billion-disability-pay-cut/

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/1...-benefits-for-2011-session-to-fulfill-pledge/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/28/bachmann-veterans-cuts/

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/0...na-republicans-vote-to-cut-veterans-benefits/


http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/213598/could-be-better-budget/veronique-de-rugy

What also makes the president’s 150 cuts less credible is a look at last year’s proposed cuts. Recall that a year ago the White house targeted 65 programs–such as Alcohol Abuse Reduction and Literacy Programs for Prisoners–to save roughly $5 billion. But in the end, Congress terminated only five of them saving a total of $292 million. Yet President Bush did not even threaten to reach for the veto pen. To his credit though, he was not discouraged by his failure and this year even escalated by proposing up to $20 billion cuts in various areas of the budget–including health, education, veterans’ services, environmental protection, community development and even Amtrak subsidies. Sadly, House and Senate leaders have already told the White House that no more than two dozens of the 150 cuts are likely to be accepted.

Etc, etc, etc. It's all easily googled and people have been talking about it here for as long as I've been posting here. The rwcj just ignores it and pretends it doesn't happen, continuing to insist that it's only Democrats who ever cut bennies for veterans.

 

[garbage can]

Every single person who served in the war(s) volunteered to do so; and nearly all of them volunteered after the wars started. What did they think they were signing up for?

I guess I figured that if they were disabled, our country would take care of them and their family.

 

[TexasWife25]

Does anyone remember when the GI Bill was purposed, it was compared to welfare and highly opposed by a lot of vocal Republicans.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

How can they be a vet if they were never in the military?

They said they were vets. You can buy fieldjackets at any surplus store.

 

[Peregrinator]

Does anyone remember when the GI Bill was purposed, it was compared to welfare and highly opposed by a lot of vocal Republicans.

Can't say as I remember that, since it was in 1944, but I think it was sort of cross-partisan, with opponents and proponents on both sides. I know that Eisenhower opposed it in peacetime.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I never let them know about my PTSDers

I've never met a real vet with PTSD, and plenty of them experienced horrific events...like killing comrades in firefights.

 

[TexasWife25]

Can't say as I remember that, since it was in 1944.

I thought you just looked really good for your age

 

[Peregrinator]

Does anyone remember when the GI Bill was purposed, it was compared to welfare and highly opposed by a lot of vocal Republicans.

But you do raise some interesting points that Vette might want to consider before he starts pissing about Democrats again. These are both from the wiki for "GI Bill:"

In the next decade, efforts were made to increase veterans’ benefits. Congress succeeded, often in the face of fierce objections from the fiscally conservative Nixon and Ford Administrations, to raise benefit levels.[citation needed] In 1967, a single veteran’s benefits were raised to $130 a month; in 1970 they rose to $175; under the Readjustment Assistance Act of 1972 the monthly allowance rose to $220; in 1974 it rose to $270, $292 in 1976, and then $311 a month in 1977.

In 1985, a bill sponsored by Democratic Congressman "Sonny" Gillespie V. Montgomery expanded the G.I. Bill. The MGIB replaced the VEAP for those who served after July 1, 1985. This was an entirely voluntary program in which participants could choose to forfeit $100 per month from their first year of pay. In return, eligible veterans received a tuition allowance and a monthly stipend for up to 36 months of eligible training or education.[citation needed]

 

[Peregrinator]

I thought you just looked really good for your age

Well...I do! Thanks.

 

[mercury14]

I've never met a real vet with PTSD, and plenty of them experienced horrific events...like killing comrades in firefights.

We diagnose it all the time at the clinic. We also call folks on malingering on a regular basis.

 

[Peregrinator]

Rather than trim from the Pentagon's budget, the GOP assembled its package of $61 billion in cuts from deep reductions to non-defense discretionary programs, including $2.6 billion in funding provided to care for America's veterans through the Veterans Administration.


http://www.thewashingtoncurrent.com/2011/02/gop-budget-cuts-preserve-military.html

 

[koalabear]

http://www.disabledveterans.org/2011/07/18/obama-republicans-seek-23-billion-disability-pay-cut/

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/1...-benefits-for-2011-session-to-fulfill-pledge/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/28/bachmann-veterans-cuts/

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/0...na-republicans-vote-to-cut-veterans-benefits/


http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/213598/could-be-better-budget/veronique-de-rugy



Etc, etc, etc. It's all easily googled and people have been talking about it here for as long as I've been posting here. The rwcj just ignores it and pretends it doesn't happen, continuing to insist that it's only Democrats who ever cut bennies for veterans.

The above post has been furnished by the pivot man for the lwcj, although he claims not to be a lib.

 

[Peregrinator]

House GOP trims military construction, VA measure ‘for first time in history’

By John T. Bennett - 05/12/11 10:41 AM ET

The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday announced its 2012 budget for military construction and Veterans Affairs will cut the administration's $73.7 billion request by $1.2 billion.

The budget reductions are the latest move by House Republicans to slash federal spending. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), the chairman of the subcommittee on military construction and veterans affairs, said it was the “first time in history” appropriators had cut this spending bill.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/1...erans-affairs-bill-for-first-time-in-history-

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

They said they were vets. You can buy fieldjackets at any surplus store.

you know the tricks bro!

Stew