Veterans for Trump Congrats
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Oh wow, didn’t see that coming.
Said no one.
“Thank you for your service, now fuck off.”
The gop fucking hates vets, they love soldiers.
In case anyone wants to read the article in question: https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/11/28/american-veterans-now-receive-absurdly-generous-benefits
This is the real cost of 25 years of war. Congratulations.
I’m going to guess veterans disproportionately voted for him so, reap what you sow?
I’m a veteran btw and voted Harris.
Around 65% of veterans support Trump, so this is proper Leopards eat their face material lol
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/veterans-vote-trump/
There’s been a couple of these articles showing up – each with no author name.
edit: there are more publications than the economist, folks.
Veteran here. Proudly voted for Harris. I don’t understand how any service member or veteran could have voted for someone who was, among other egregious acts, directly responsible for January 6th.
We swore an oath to “support and defend the constitution of the United States” and its various Articles and Amendments that protect free and fair elections. IMO any service member who voted for Trump indirectly failed this oath.
Average Veteran with a 20% disability receives a whopping $338.49/month.
60% disability pays $1,361.88/month.
There’s a way to stop paying out this money. Stop engaging in stupid ‘conflicts’.
https://www.va.gov/disability/compensation-rates/veteran-rates/
I don’t know, I’m thinking the vets who voted for Trump are receiving too many benefits. Then again, I work for the VA so I get to see these proud morons every day.
“But Imma skeered of black people, so I’m willing to accept fewer benefits”
-65% of veterans
For the 35% of veterans who didn’t vote for Trump, I’m sorry you’ll have to suffer.
As a non sucker and loser vet I will never understand how so many vets buy into his bs.
Many vets are so broken from the military that they can’t work, hell, we can hardly get around. So go ahead and take our benefits and leave a bunch of disabled vets homeless on the street.
But the 5 time draft dodger loves our veterans.
I’m sorry…..who from the incoming government are we allowing to publish things anonymously?
I fucking knew that article was shit. Damnitsomuch
I receive survivor benefits from my husband’s disability. I’m expecting them to take that away. My Army friend assured me that if you’re already receiving benefits, they won’t take them away. I suspect he’s going to be in for a surprise. I like the guy, but he is way over-confident in his predictive abilities.
“When it comes to the Department of Veterans Affairs…..The department’s budget has surged over the past two decades, rising from $86bn in today’s dollars (then equivalent to 2.6% of the federal budget) in 2000 to $336bn (5% of today’s budget) this year
Remarkably, this boom has occurred despite a nearly one-third decline in the veteran population, which has fallen from 26m to 18m. Annual spending per veteran, as a consequence, has risen six-fold.”
Not one single mention of maybe why that is, gee maybe two decades of war with higher survival rates than previous conflicts might have an impact. And in the big picture of the budget it’s a pretty small bill.
This will not help the military requirement shortfalls.
Yeah, media is priming the country to not care about trump screwing veterans. I feel about the ones, including myself, that didn’t betray the country by voting for the orange shitstain.
Vets are their own worst enemy.
My sister has a ‘disabled veteran’ license plate and is constantly asked why a ‘little girl’ like her would need one – a paper cut? did someone hurt your feelings? burn yourself on the coffee pot?
She’ll pull up a pantsleg to show off ‘frah gee lay,’ her orthopedic prosthetic, and the conversation will immediately turn to how he spent the late-sixties protecting Arkansas from the Viet Cong or the mid-eighties protecting North Dakota from the Soviets.
Vets are probably big in favor of Trump…
You can cut benefits if they can buy eggs for cheap again.
“america’s veteran obsession has gone too far.” this sentence makes me want to throw rocks at people.
not a vet, not from a military family. my father did 2 years from 1947-49. i didn’t have classmates in the 70s who joined the military. this will have no impact on me. (please don’t @ me about my freedoms kept safe by the military; my freedoms & your freedoms are going straight to the toilet when new cic is installed.)
BUT I DO CARE! military personnel choose to put their lives on the line by enlisting. that’s worth something to one’s country & the gi bill benefits are a thank you that’s actually useful. they earned it. will i buy a bottle of tums for the leopards after they digest this misery? sure. but i think cutting vet benefits is an absolutely heinous act.
the economist is a brit pub. why isn’t it in fortune or business week or similar? is it to take a sounding of the opinions of american millions/billionaires who do read the economist? i wonder if the anon writer is an under 30 white woman who agreed to let him put a white bun in her white oven? 🤢
I do feel strongly that these are deliberately posted to get views, provoke dispute among implanted bots to force dispute among actual users, and to finally analyze the data on the effectiveness of the little mini “psyop” they just conducted. Or it could be real lol… OP- you real?
Cut the defense budget before you chop VA benefits.
Repubs: why are we accepting refugees when we aren’t taking care of our vets
dems: cool let’s take care of vets
Rs: No
And bacon
Suckers and losers rob the wallets of who they deem suckers and losers.
What about congress,the senate and everyone else that gets free healthcare for life after they leave office if they ever leave and the golden parachute handed to them