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Visiting the VA and having friends on staff has led me to believe that at least 25% of all claims are bogus, possibly as much as 35%.
There are people who would be busted on this board in less than an hour collecting thousands of tax dollars per month, which could be spent on people with real issues. PTSD is another get over scam for most recipients.
One fat bastard I saw at the VA who claims to have liberated Auschwitz and then been a POW held there was not even inducted into the service until Nov 1945. 100% disabled, now he wants the VA to pay for a second scooter to haul his fat ass around, because the other one is too big and bulky.
I agree that diabetes is a condition exacerbated by lifestyle choices, and is treatable. Whether it is partially caused by exposure to dioxins and other chemicals is unclear to me, but it is compensable. I just hope they limit it to people who served in SEA and were exposed. I HATE posers.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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