Proposed VA Benefit Cut Angers Elderly, Disabled Vets

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The plan to cut financial support for aging and disabled veterans included in President Donald Trump's $1.1 trillion federal budget proposal has led to bitterness and confusion among the estimated 225,000 vets who could lose the payments.

The reductions may also trigger a political backlash against the president, who made reforming and increasing support for the Department of Veterans Affairs a major part of his campaign against Hillary Clinton.

"Make that guy in the White House keep his promise to all of us veterans, lest we all fall by the wayside and be left on the battlefield," said a former Army staff sergeant who served in Vietnam.

"Please don't do this to us," said a sailor who served on ships in the Tonkin Gulf during the Vietnam War. "My wife and I already live our later years in constant uncertainty. We thought our VA benefits were fairly safe."

"I have become aware that President Trump's VA budget sets to screw Vietnam veterans first in line by eliminating the unemployability benefit for those of us who actually served and sacrificed who have reached the age of Social Security benefits," said a former Navy lieutenant who flew the EP-3E version of the P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft in Vietnam.

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[roamer65]

1. These folks probably voted for Dump in large numbers.

I frankly have a rough time feeling sorry for them.

[Sinistrous]

3. The vets I know did not vote for that pig.

I consider your blithe dismissal of this group to be heartless cruel.

[roamer65]

7. I mean those that voted for him.

That is the intent of the statement. If they did vote for him, I have little sympathy.

[dalton99a]

13. CNN exit polls showed veterans voted at a 2-1 ratio for Trump over Hillary

[Doreen]

2. Welcome to YOUR vote.

[Blue_true]

5. Elections have consequences.

Those that vote with their heads up their asses sometimes get what they voted for. As a Democrat, I am tired of voting to save those people so that they can just hate me more.

[onecent]

4. It doesn't MATTER who these people voted for, I didn't vote for Dump, but

nevertheless he said he wasn't going to touch SS, Medicare, Medicade....He doesn't know what's
on the other side.....he is doing this all for money, money, money...

I'm am so fuckiing sick of this PERSON....

[Scurrilous]

6. K&R

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Too many of them did vote for him.

And those of us paying attention knew quite clearly he'd do this crap. If they weren't paying attention, too bad.
The real shame is that all the rest of us have to suffer along with them.

[roamer65]

9. .

[pennylane100]

10. To all the Hilary haters out there,

remember, elections have consequences. I feel so bad for all those who did not vote for Trump but it is a little harder to feel sympathy for those who voted for a pussy chasing psychopath. What did they expect.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. The problem is not the Hillary haters.

The problem is those who voted for Trump, pure and simple. Regardless of where they came from to vote for him, vote for him they did.

[judesedit]

12. Many voted for the bigoted asshole and brought thIs scourge down on all of us

I don't hear anything about the poor children, disabled, or elderly civilians being screwed along with the vets