Surprised....I'm gobsmacked...vetrans issues

Wounded heroes beat MoD in benefits battle | The Sun |News|Campaigns|Our Boys

Well bugger me...Does this mean I have to vote again now...Gobsmacked...This war pensioner is absolutely gobsmacked. Bravo British Legion...I won't call you names ever again.

The sentence that matters....David Cameron has now slapped down MoD bureaucrats and ruled that anyone left disabled by military service must be exempt from benefit cuts.

 

Sadly why would any vet be asked by politicians to take a cut in his/her benefits? In the US, it's because fewer politicians have ever served in the military, let alone been in combat. To those "professional" politicans (incumbents) the vets are just another voting bloc without many votes.

Soon those same politicans will want to re-instate the draft when the benefits package is a shell of its former self.

 

Not often anyone beats the penpushers.

 

Something very few here in America understand, or remember is this. The US military wasn't included in the Social Security system until the Eisenhower years (1957) when Ike also expanded the SSA to be open to farmers, farm workers, those who were self-employed, household workers (maids, cooks), and other who had been excluded from the system. Literally American citizen.

Those who had served in the years previous to 1957 were given sort of "voucher" credits for their service so that they would be compensated for their time. The rate is included in this next site from the SSA.

Goto:

Military Veterans and Social Security

 

Maybe when these brave men go to combat they should "make cuts" and choose who to protect. In other words not the politicians who dared to even think making cuts in their benefits.

 

Not American so Don't know how true this is...seems we all have problems still...

U.S. falls short on debt to military vets | The Journal Gazette

 

@ Skipper...I hear that !

 

New definition of the closet hypocrite -one who agrees with his chosen leadership that we borrow from China to fund war instead of paying as we go along (something we more or less did before), then opposes all new taxes, then expects his demands to fully fund the veterans....... will be successful. That is how the veteran is hit from behind in post service attacks because we do that!