Thousands of Living Vets Declared Dead, Lose Benefits

[NAC4EV]

The Department of Veterans Affairs has mistakenly declared thousands of veterans to be deceased and canceled their benefits over the past five years, a new snafu to emerge at the embattled department.

The VA has made the error more than 4,000 times over a half-decade because of employee mistakes or erroneous cross-checking of data by the department’s computers, among other reasons, according to correspondence between the VA and the office of Rep. David Jolly (R., Fla.) reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The VA has changed its procedures to address the issue, but it isn’t yet clear whether the new system is working.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-of-living-vets-declared-dead-lose-benefits/ar-BBtt8lC?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

 

[master_shake_]

support the troops!

until they get home... then fuck em.

 

[MajinCry]

support the troops!

until they get home... then fuck em.

I'm not gonna shed tears over vets that originally signed up for "unjust" wars, such as the invasion of Vietnam. Hell, Mohamed Ali demonstrated how to respond to conscription for such.


I'm interested to see how many of the usual posters 'ere will decry the Vets as lazy scum that don't have any capacity for an honest day's hardwork. What with them considering users of welfare as white trash stealing from society.

 

[1prophet]

I'm not gonna shed tears over vets that originally signed up for "unjust" wars, such as the invasion of Vietnam. Hell, Mohamed Ali demonstrated how to respond to conscription for such.


I'm interested to see how many of the usual posters 'ere will decry the Vets as lazy scum that don't have any capacity for an honest day's hardwork. What with them considering users of welfare as white trash stealing from society.

You shouldn't shed a tear since few if any signed up for the war in Vietnam.

As for Mohamed Ali, he was a well liked celebrity not some 18 year old kid that nobody knows about that is told "go to war or go to jail",

As for the vets in general, Sprechen Sie Deutsch?, because that is what you would be doing today if it wasn't for American vets, many who were conscripted and sent to defend your country in the time of its greatest peril,

and today you have the freedom to leave the UK but choose not to because your English gravy train might end.

 

[master_shake_]

I'm not gonna shed tears over vets that originally signed up for "unjust" wars, such as the invasion of Vietnam. Hell, Mohamed Ali demonstrated how to respond to conscription for such.


I'm interested to see how many of the usual posters 'ere will decry the Vets as lazy scum that don't have any capacity for an honest day's hardwork. What with them considering users of welfare as white trash stealing from society.

they don't get to pick the wars they fight in.

 

[MajinCry]

they don't get to pick the wars they fight in.

Then don't sign up.

Bloody hell, you're given a gun and combat armour, by the same organization that orchestrated wars and considers rape to be SOP. If you were a child soldier, alright, you were ignorant. But 18?

Nah, you've been to a history class before, and if ya haven't, there's plenty of articles, books and news reports detailing the shit that the military does.

Basically, war's a horror. Why? Because men kill other men and rape other women. It's the soldiers that do it; no soldiers, no army. No army, no war.


Again, I've little sympathy. If you're met with the moral dilemma of "either go slaughter & rape, or go to jail", the moral choice is the latter 'un.

 

[WHAMPOM]

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[master_shake_]

Then don't sign up.

Bloody hell, you're given a gun and combat armour, by the same organization that orchestrated wars and considers rape to be SOP. If you were a child soldier, alright, you were ignorant. But 18?

Nah, you've been to a history class before, and if ya haven't, there's plenty of articles, books and news reports detailing the shit that the military does.

Basically, war's a horror. Why? Because men kill other men and rape other women. It's the soldiers that do it; no soldiers, no army. No army, no war.


Again, I've little sympathy. If you're met with the moral dilemma of "either go slaughter & rape, or go to jail", the moral choice is the latter 'un.

i don't even...

wow.

ok then.

nice talking to you.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I see the alternate reality MajinCry inhabits only has a military in whichever country he nominally resides. Thank goodness the rest of the planet will stop fighting as soon as we do.

 

[werepossum]

I'm not gonna shed tears over vets that originally signed up for "unjust" wars, such as the invasion of Vietnam. Hell, Mohamed Ali demonstrated how to respond to conscription for such.


I'm interested to see how many of the usual posters 'ere will decry the Vets as lazy scum that don't have any capacity for an honest day's hardwork. What with them considering users of welfare as white trash stealing from society.

See, this is why we can't have nice things.

 

[buckshot24]

Again, I've little sympathy. If you're met with the moral dilemma of "either go slaughter & rape, or go to jail", the moral choice is the latter 'un.

Why? Meat machine. Because you say so? Which chemical reactions in your brain are binding on other meat machines?

 

[buckshot24]

I see the alternate reality MajinCry inhabits only has a military in whichever country he nominally resides. Thank goodness the rest of the planet will stop fighting as soon as we do.

Apparently we should have allowed Hitler to steamroll the entire planet. Wars are bad.

 

[Paratus]

Misread this as Living Dead Declared Vets, Lose Benefits. Carry on.

 

[Darwin333]

Boy that would be a seriously fucked up situation. You show up to the VA hospital for a checkup or something...

"Yes mam, this is John Doe to see Dr Jane, here is my ID"

"Umm, you are dead sir"

"Wtf, I'm dead???"

"Yes sir"

"Do I look fucking dead you dipshit"

"Sir, I am going to need you to calm down"

"I would be really fucking calm if I was fucking dead you dumb fuck so maybe, I don't know, I'm NOT DEAD bitch!!"

"But the computer says you are dead so you are going to need to bring proof of life to XYZ in order to clear this up"

"Proof of life, I'm fucking standing here talking to you ain't I. You ever see a dead bastard do that?"

"Umm, you are going to need to go stand in that long ass line over there for further assistance"

 

[Darwin333]

I'm not gonna shed tears over vets that originally signed up for "unjust" wars, such as the invasion of Vietnam. Hell, Mohamed Ali demonstrated how to respond to conscription for such.


I'm interested to see how many of the usual posters 'ere will decry the Vets as lazy scum that don't have any capacity for an honest day's hardwork. What with them considering users of welfare as white trash stealing from society.

"Theirs not to make reply
Theirs not to question why
Theirs but to do and die"


It's the way the military has always worked and frankly it must work that way.

 

[sandorski]

Minority Report is here!

This is clearly the result of removing "Pre-existing condition" as a reason to deny service. They have merely hired Psychics to determine the future of these Patients. Sadly, they are all going to die.

 

[IronWing]

Um, ah, nevermind, carry on.

 

[Darwin333]

Um, ah, nevermind, carry on.

Oops. Still early and we were out of coffee. Fixed now, thanks for pointing it out. Feel free to implement appropriate punishment so that I may atone to the grammar gods.

I even went full on apostrophe as in "there is", I fear my atonement will be brutal.

 

[JockoJohnson]

I'm not gonna shed tears over vets that originally signed up for "unjust" wars, such as the invasion of Vietnam. Hell, Mohamed Ali demonstrated how to respond to conscription for such.


I'm interested to see how many of the usual posters 'ere will decry the Vets as lazy scum that don't have any capacity for an honest day's hardwork. What with them considering users of welfare as white trash stealing from society.

Did you have to tell the doctor where the bad soldier touched you? And who are these "usual posters" that will decry the Vets as lazy scum? Just name some name because I can't think of a single one here except for you.

 

[IronWing]

Oops. Still early and we were out of coffee. Fixed now, thanks for pointing it out. Feel free to implement appropriate punishment so that I may atone to the grammar gods.

I even went full on apostrophe as in "there is", I fear my atonement will be brutal.

Problem solved, back to pointing at MajinCry and laughing.

 

[FerrelGeek]

It's people like you that kept me from becoming a liberal. I saw how the libs in my youth treated the Vietnam vets and despised them and vowed to never be one of them.

I'm not gonna shed tears over vets that originally signed up for "unjust" wars, such as the invasion of Vietnam. Hell, Mohamed Ali demonstrated how to respond to conscription for such.


I'm interested to see how many of the usual posters 'ere will decry the Vets as lazy scum that don't have any capacity for an honest day's hardwork. What with them considering users of welfare as white trash stealing from society.

 

[Triloby]

Then don't sign up.

Bloody hell, you're given a gun and combat armour, by the same organization that orchestrated wars and considers rape to be SOP. If you were a child soldier, alright, you were ignorant. But 18?

Nah, you've been to a history class before, and if ya haven't, there's plenty of articles, books and news reports detailing the shit that the military does.

Basically, war's a horror. Why? Because men kill other men and rape other women. It's the soldiers that do it; no soldiers, no army. No army, no war.


Again, I've little sympathy. If you're met with the moral dilemma of "either go slaughter & rape, or go to jail", the moral choice is the latter 'un.

Looks like we'll need another World War just to teach you a lesson. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[interchange]

It's people like you that kept me from becoming a liberal. I saw how the libs in my youth treated the Vietnam vets and despised them and vowed to never be one of them.

It is interesting.

For some, certainly, that treatment has been internalized as a belief of how society works in general. And it has turned many able individuals into those driven to suckle off the teats of our VA system out of a sense of entitlement given such lack of respect.

Sadly, there are many who legitimately need, particularly with mental health, whose self-doubts and illness serve to prevent them from reaching the teat.

After all, the runt gets less milk in the end because he is less able to fight for it.

I do not think that adding more teats will solve this problem.

 

[Tormac]

I'm not gonna shed tears over vets that originally signed up for "unjust" wars, such as the invasion of Vietnam. Hell, Mohamed Ali demonstrated how to respond to conscription for such.


I'm interested to see how many of the usual posters 'ere will decry the Vets as lazy scum that don't have any capacity for an honest day's hardwork. What with them considering users of welfare as white trash stealing from society.

I don't think anyone actually pointed this out, but just as a point of clarification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_lottery_(1969)

 

[piasabird]

Politicians seem quick to send other people to die.