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Post by aztec70 on Aug 20, 2010 11:45:15 GMT -8
Get as worked up as you want, win. There was never a promise of lifetime health care benefits. I believe you know this and just want to cause a ruckus. Fine. Go ahead.
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Post by aztecwin on Aug 20, 2010 11:51:56 GMT -8
Get as worked up as you want, win. There was never a promise of lifetime health care benefits. I believe you know this and just want to cause a ruckus. Fine. Go ahead. Well, looks like your unwillingness to express youself tells me all I need to know about you.
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Post by aztec70 on Aug 20, 2010 12:12:43 GMT -8
Get as worked up as you want, win. There was never a promise of lifetime health care benefits. I believe you know this and just want to cause a ruckus. Fine. Go ahead. Well, looks like your unwillingness to express youself tells me all I need to know about you. Good. Glad I am clear.
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Post by aztecwin on Aug 20, 2010 14:34:51 GMT -8
Get as worked up as you want, win. There was never a promise of lifetime health care benefits. I believe you know this and just want to cause a ruckus. Fine. Go ahead. You have been shown where those promises were made. The problem is they are not enforceable. It seemed like a very simple fix to fulfill the moral obligation that our government has to these retired servicemen that are nearing the end of their life. It would have been very simple for you to admit what you have been shown and to say something like "It would cost very little since so few are still alive." or "Why don't we just make it right?" You instead seem to want to come off as very ungrateful for their service and unapologetic at the crass manner that Congress and our government has treated these people. What is your hangup with retired WW2 and Korean Vets? Cause a ruckus? Is that not what finding these issues in all about? Don't we try to find things to champion or to argue about for fun?
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Post by aztec70 on Aug 20, 2010 20:43:19 GMT -8
When did you enlist, aztecwin?
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Post by aztec70 on Aug 20, 2010 21:01:01 GMT -8
Get as worked up as you want, win. There was never a promise of lifetime health care benefits. I believe you know this and just want to cause a ruckus. Fine. Go ahead. You have been shown where those promises were made. The problem is they are not enforceable. It seemed like a very simple fix to fulfill the moral obligation that our government has to these retired servicemen that are nearing the end of their life. It would have been very simple for you to admit what you have been shown and to say something like "It would cost very little since so few are still alive." or "Why don't we just make it right?" You instead seem to want to come off as very ungrateful for their service and unapologetic at the crass manner that Congress and our government has treated these people. What is your hangup with retired WW2 and Korean Vets? Cause a ruckus? Is that not what finding these issues in all about? Don't we try to find things to champion or to argue about for fun? I am having a blast. ;D
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Post by aztecwin on Aug 21, 2010 5:59:41 GMT -8
When did you enlist, aztecwin? I knew that was coming. I don't think I qualify by about six months. I was in the National Guard when I was underage and don't think there is any record. I know it does not count toward my retirement. Maybe I should have said that I did not qualify early so you could have come out for it.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Aug 22, 2010 8:17:47 GMT -8
Probably 99 percent of those guys who would have qualified are dead by now.
Sheeeet, a whole boatload of guys I graduated from high school with way back in 1967 are dead already.
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Post by aztecwin on Aug 22, 2010 9:48:26 GMT -8
Probably 99 percent of those guys who would have qualified are dead by now. Sheeeet, a whole boatload of guys I graduated from high school with way back in 1967 are dead already. Along with that, the lions share of WW2 and Korean Vets did not retire with twenty years service. We are talking a very small number of folks here.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Aug 23, 2010 17:47:46 GMT -8
When I was a young man fifty years ago, there were Veterans Hospitals everywhere as well as rest homes for veterans who were down on their funds and luck.
How many of these are still with us? I got the impression half a century ago, that our veterans would always be taken care of. Is that not the case anymore?
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Post by aztecwin on Aug 24, 2010 10:33:11 GMT -8
When I was a young man fifty years ago, there were Veterans Hospitals everywhere as well as rest homes for veterans who were down on their funds and luck. How many of these are still with us? I got the impression half a century ago, that our veterans would always be taken care of. Is that not the case anymore? This is a much narrower issue. Read the start of the thread.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Aug 24, 2010 21:15:16 GMT -8
When I was a young man fifty years ago, there were Veterans Hospitals everywhere as well as rest homes for veterans who were down on their funds and luck. How many of these are still with us? I got the impression half a century ago, that our veterans would always be taken care of. Is that not the case anymore? This is a much narrower issue. Read the start of the thread. I was deliberately broadening the issue because the previous topic had played out with a quiver....
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