Military Personnel are on the Government Dole

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She had some classy tweets for Chik-fil-a eaters the other day.

"Comic and Green Party favorite Roseanne Barr joined the Chick-fil-A bashing on Wednesday, tweeting, “anyone who eats [expletive]-Fil-A deserves to get the cancer that is sure to come from eating antibiotic filled tortured chickens 4Christ.”
 
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hohenfelsvol said:
Roseanne's Nuts
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This should make most people that even consider themselves liberals to think "Will somebody please shut that stupid cow up!".
 
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Technically, she is correct. Anybody employed by the government is on the government dole.

I'm currently in the AF (not re-enlisting, btw), and I can say that entitlement mentality exists within the military.
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
Technically, she is correct. Anybody employed by the government is on the government dole.

I'm currently in the AF (not re-enlisting, btw), and I can say that entitlement mentality exists within the military.
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Technically she's not correct - the term dole refers to government payments to people that are generally not working. Military personnel, civil servants, elected officials are employees of the government and receive salary or other forms of compensation IN EXCHANGE for services performed.
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
Technically, she is correct. Anybody employed by the government is on the government dole.

I'm currently in the AF (not re-enlisting, btw), and I can say that entitlement mentality exists within the military.
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The farther you are from actual danger the greater sense of entitlement I would say.
 
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volinbham said:
Technically she's not correct - the term dole refers to government payments to people that are generally not working. Military personnel, civil servants, elected officials are employees of the government and receive salary or other forms of compensation IN EXCHANGE for services performed.
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The point I was trying to make is that all government employees are a burden on the taxpayers.
 
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YorkVol said:
Burden? You are part of. 45% of the country who has chosen to serve, seems more like a bargain to me.
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Yeah, and I joined the military under the impression that it was a noble act, serving my country, etc. After having been in for some time now, all my pre-conceived notions of the military have been shattered. As I mentioned before, the entitlement mentality is very much alive, at least within the AF. I can only assume that it exists in the other branches as well, although perhaps not to the same degree.
 
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YorkVol said:
Burden? You are part of. 45% of the country who has chosen to serve, seems more like a bargain to me.
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YorkVol, This is off topic somewhat.

I discovered something that really shocked me. I visited a VA hospital last week. There was two long lines of veterans that had been to see the doctor waiting in line to pick up thier travel money. I was told they receive a certain amount per mile for every mile they travel every time they go to the VA doc. They were handing out a lot of cash.
If that day was a standard day they hand out thousands of dollars per day.

Is this benefit for vets that were injured in combat or does this apply to all vets?
 
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Gramps said:
YorkVol, This is off topic somewhat.

I discovered something that really shocked me. I visited a VA hospital last week. There was two long lines of veterans that had been to see the doctor waiting in line to pick up thier travel money. I was told they receive a certain amount per mile for every mile they travel every time they go to the VA doc. They were handing out a lot of cash.
If that day was a standard day they hand out thousands of dollars per day.

Is this benefit for vets that were injured in combat or does this apply to all vets?
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disabled vets............you have a problem with this?
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
Yeah, and I joined the military under the impression that it was a noble act, serving my country, etc. After having been in for some time now, all my pre-conceived notions of the military have been shattered. As I mentioned before, the entitlement mentality is very much alive, at least within the AF. I can only assume that it exists in the other branches as well, although perhaps not to the same degree.
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I assure you that it is a very small percentage, at least as of 2008
 
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BearCat204 said:
disabled vets............you have a problem with this?
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I believe that anyone that serves our country in war is very deserving of their benefits. I was curious if the "travel money" was for all who served or only those injured in combat.
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
Yeah, and I joined the military under the impression that it was a noble act, serving my country, etc. After having been in for some time now, all my pre-conceived notions of the military have been shattered. As I mentioned before, the entitlement mentality is very much alive, at least within the AF. I can only assume that it exists in the other branches as well, although perhaps not to the same degree.
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I would agree that there is layer of the "entitlements" population in the military and that the number is dramatically higher in the DoD civilian populus, where unions are part of the deal. Honestly, even the military is a perfect example of the massive inefficiencies that the government introduces into everything it touches. Unfortunately, the military is probably one of the least contaminated gov't entities.

It's easy to get jaded within enormous bureaucracies, where the entrance criteria have been dumbed down where the military's currently reside.
 
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Gramps said:
I believe that anyone that serves our country in war is very deserving of their benefits. I was curious if the "travel money" was for all who served or only those injured in combat.
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Disabled vets arent not necessarily those injured "in combat". Many are injured for whatever reason in the line of duty. If they have an injury that is "service-connected" they will be rated by the VA as disabled or not and to what degree. The Vets that you see at the Vet hospital are all classified as disabled Vets, or they are there to get their rating. So no, this isnt for all Vets.
 
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