Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Dealey Plaza’s Tell Tale Heart" video.
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@williambranch4283 I enlisted when Reagan was in office. Medical discharge in 2005 with Dubya. 100% permanent and totally disabled, 100% service connected since 2005. The VA is my only health care and income, I am not allowed to earn anything more, no investments, no rental properties, no taxable income whatsoever.
So it matters a great deal to me who is in office.
Here is what I have found. The D's cut VA funding, limit cost of living adjustments for us, and it takes several months to get seen at the VA. When Barry was in office, I had to go to the ER if I had a problem between noon on Thursday and 0900 on Monday. The ER visit came out of pocket for me, and every time it was roughly 3 entire months of my income. They also restricted meds and constantly tried to change them to the cheapest thing possible, even if they don't work.
Then we got the cheeto, biggest cost of living adjustment since I got messed up in the desert in 2017 (until this year, more on that later.) The last one we got was 2010, and congress forced Barry into it. I could walk in and be seen, or call and get an appointment the next day, two days at most. No hassles about meds, and my ER visit was paid for by the VA. He made it law that they now have to pay the ER visits if we can't get in. I have respiratory issues and sometimes I have to get in right now.
The cost of living adjustment this year was larger because they have devalued the dollar so badly, we got a percentage that is less than half of what inflation is. It amounted to $200 more each month.
We don't have more veterans in the system now, but they have more BS they have to do and fewer people to do it, and that translates into being able to see fewer of us, which means we wait longer to get in. Seriously a five minute phone call appointment to set up something takes 90 days to get.
The day after the potato was installed, the VA went right back to how it was with Barry, but now its worse.
So if the cheeto was controlled opposition, which I always suspected, at least he made sure veterans are treated better. The D's seem to make it a point to take funding from us and make our lives worse, all while claiming they are doing so much good for us. The D's have been clamoring for conflicts since LBJ, and they were in office in 1917 and 1941 as well, yet somehow the R's are always called the warstarters.
The 01-03 invasions were after 8 years of Bill doing nothing when we were attacked 9 times, and for his entire term he was calling for what Dubya actually did. Yet Bill sat on his hands and cut funding. I remember the rhetoric vividly from them in the 90s. All while he cut the military so much that many of us were deployed around the world for several years at a time. Bill cut the military so much that we had one man doing the work of five or more.
The 92 drawdown and huge budget cuts left me without a job so I was forced out of the military. Then Bill signed NAFTA and the CNC programmer/machinist jobs all went to Mexico. He eviscerated our manufacturing with the stroke of a pen. My only recourse was to enlist again, and since he had cut the military so badly, I was able to do that... just in time for my second war and two more deployments, and ending up crippled for the rest of my life.
Guess who voted that we go into Iraq back in 2003... Bill's wife, Barry, and all the bile spewing D twunts that lied about the cheeto and accused him of every horrific thing they were doing themselves.
I loathe politicians, and I have never liked the cheeto, going all the way back to the first time I became aware of him when he was on Oprah in the 80s, my mom used to watch her show every day. I can't stand the way he talks, and something about him grates on my nerves, but he was the best president in my lifetime, which extends back to Nixon.
The Rs fund the military and veterans, the Ds defund the military and start wars for us to fight, and then hope we expire rather than compensate us.
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