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Well Republicans love our troops so much, so I’m sure they’ll protect these funds, right???

This is framing to further define Vets along with 'welfare moms'. Most vets have to constantly struggle for everything they get. When there are programs available to aid them, they only find out from talking to other Vets. Vets deserve more than a couple 'thanks' during picnic holidays.

MAGA vets are about to find out what they voted for when they cut military vet benefits or freeze them.

It’s actually this rag capitulating to The Felon who disparages the military whenever he can. The draft dodger hates truly brave men and women.

I mean….WTAF?

I am a veteran and I am most definitely against that pathetic fascist criminal

The first mistake was bothering to read 'The Economist' for news on US politics. Anyone claiming that any domestic group — aside from corporations and farms — is receiving "absurdly generous benefits" from the US government is delusional.

Expertise,not required. It’s rather: Will I get some money for this? Also known as toxic, unchecked capitalism.

They have been building the hero to freeloader rhetorical pipeline for a while.

They were already getting the bare minimum. They’re finally getting what they should have been getting all along. This country wants people to put themselves in harms way for it, but doesn’t want to return any favors. It’s a one way street.

From the Republican-English Dictionary: GENEROUS BENEFITS, np. A phrase used to implicitly frame the argument that whoever is receiving “generous benefits” has not earned them. See also: The term "ENTITLEMENTS".

So these idiots want us all living under a bridge.

Our.veterans deserve everything they were promised. Without them our country would not survive. 🇺🇸

🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🙏🏻

The only ones that can make that claim are the ones that wore the uniform and were honorably discharged.

I guess the only Americans are rich people and big business. The rest of us are unAmerican in their eyes.

Bootstraps assuming you can make your own. If you can’t, too bad for you.

Not even bootstraps. They presume boots, which they will steal.

My son served in Afghanistan. He died of pneumonia about a year later. Doctors said they had no idea of the type virus. VA has not been helpful.

You know you didn’t need to ask. OFC

THIS! Let’s at least give Universal Healthcare to any Veteran for life.

Make it a requirement that if you accept Medicare you must accept VA benefits

Yes!

What is absurd (and obscene) is the level of wealth that people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have accumulated.

My son served in Afghanistan. He was exposed to burn pits. His body took a beating-the exhaustion, making jumps, artillery fire. He’s in pain all the time but resisted taking benefits. Nobody blinks at the millions made by defense contractors but let’s get mad at veterans who need $ for treatment

Couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately we may have to find out with the rest

The headline alone is horrid. I can only imagine that the lack of service, and lack of respect for the armed forces, between Trumps or Musks has emboldened this. It’s traitorous.

No! No! I can’t go so I want to support all that do go!

I’ve always said “K2 is GWOTs agent orange.” Glad to see others are catching on. No doubt Trumpism is prepping the next American burn pit and we Vets, along with our republic’s pillars of democracy, are seen only as waste to burn.

And yet still veterans deserve better and more than what is often given to them. Absurd take.

I’m 100% disabled veteran with 2 dependents. That’s the equivalent of $24 per hour for 40 hrs a week. Just saying…

If anyone actually thinks Trump won't purposely target Vets and their benefits, strictly because Trump is a coward and is jealous of our sacrifice, you aren't paying attention. He'll attack us because he can't be us.

It’s insane how we want our defense on the cheap when it comes to personnel. While technology gets relatively little scrutiny. 🧐

It’s all in the name of profits. Anything they do is so someone can make money. There is nothing they will do that is for the good of the people.

Nope just the MSM taking a knee, genuflecting as the Catholics would say, to the GOp to have an excuse to cut money from the people who need it...typical of the gop...pieces of shit...

"complicate debt-reduction efforts" Republicans add 8 trillion to the debt, saying "it'll pay for itself". Now it's "what can we do about this debt? Take it out on vets, students, the poor, the hungry, kids"

He's in a support group. I had to talk him into applying for benefits. At 77 yrs old, he is still proud of being a Marine. He was involved with the Seige of Khe Sanh. Certainly, not a sucker or loser. 😉

Sounds like my USMC Camp Lejeune & DSDS/Op IF Mum,Dad,Uncle & Godfathers, my Army DSDS/Op IF Stepdad & my Army Vietnam War neighbor w/Agent Orange cancer. My lil bro & I were diagnosed w/lifelong medical conditions caused by the poison water but the USMC never paid a dime.

If you think veterans have it too good, I suggest you go fight in a war, receive lifelong trauma, and then see how good it is after.

Thank you for standing up for vets. Our son-in-law has many health issues from Iraq. He deserves all the help he gets. And more.

Welcome to the propaganda machine

Republicans have been pushing veterans to the curb for decades. It's been a GOP goal for quite some time now.

In Canada our #veterans are treated very well by veterans affairs We have programs that 🪵 blow American vets 💀 s 😳😳😁 Never ever Go short on those who provide the freedom others enjoy #rules #veteran

Also the rise in disability payments is PACT related. You're handing out more ratings to people who have been fighting for years and don't forget survivors DIC benefits an service connected burial Benefits.

The only shred of argument I could see to this was making hypertension a presumptive for AO but other than that it's extremely difficult to get a favorable rating without a presumptive.

Ongoing ideas are that this is going to be pushed by Elon and co as part of their cuts. Veterans for Trump literally won't know what hit them.

THE FUCK WE DO FOAD NAZIS

As a pulmonary rehab therapist that consistently works with the VA to help victims of burn pits gain some type of quality of life back. People do not realize how much burn pits have harmed veterans. Thank you for your service.

Criticisms of the armed forces in general aside, at the very least we should be paying for your medical care. Not because of the burn pits, but because *that was the deal you made when you signed up*. The US shouldn’t give you medical service out of gratitude, but to honor its word.

Seems like they are trying to sway public opinion that it’s fine to cut veterans benefits. Ridiculous.

That piece in an insult to fighting men and women everywhere.

My brother died at 49 from lung cancer due to toxic exposures during the Gulf War. Thanks to the Pact Act, his family is receiving benefits that will help my sister-in-law get them through college. He enlisted right after high school. 💔

Unfortunately this time it will be more effective

Beneath the guise of generosity, they paint the poisoned as greedy, their scars dismissed as marks of privilege. A soldier's worth reduced to lies, setting the people against their guardians. The burn pits still smolder, yet it’s the truth that chokes the air. March as one, endure as all.

Our veterans laid down their lives to serve the American people. There is nothing too "absurdly generous" that we can give them.🇺🇸

Keep calling it out

The Economist seems to have a 'hate on' for disabled veterans. This is eerily similar to Trump's statement about John McCain, 'I like my heroes to have not been captured'. The Economist claims to be a champion of progress??? If it looks and smells like propaganda... then it's a propaganda rag.

Yeah, I have buddies still struggling from these exact circumstances. They can buzz off with that nonsense.

It makes me sick that they would even publish a piece of trash like this. Morons like this expect soldiers to lay their life on the line for this country, and then bitch about it when veterans expect some help for injuries or illnesses that were incurred during their service. They can go to Hell.

I hope you get your benefits! My dad had help from his local American Legion chapter

We need a lot more help for disabled folks, not less. If all the reports are correct, they're going to take away what little help we have to pay for more tax cuts for the rich

I'm on SSI and Medicaid and get the same $943 a month. If I lose Medicaid, I'm just as good as dead. If it wasn't for my wife, I would be homeless for sure

Typical shit written by people who probably have never stuck their neck out or been in danger. The only danger they ever experienced was loss of profit.

But that would make too much sense for all the war hawks and those who would benefit from huge government contracts.

Veterans apparently disagree and voted for Trump, bigly. They deserve everything they are about to get, bigly. responsiblestatecraft.org/veterans-vot...

Well, the Economist just outed itself as being with the Libertarian overlords. Shame.

And most of them avoided serving in the military, we carried the load, exposed ourselves to toxic chemicals which gave us cancer, some had died in the war and didn’t realize it until years after they came home! Generous benefits? Bullshit!

How disgraceful. Utterly sickening.

It took decades to acknowledge the effects of agent orange. Burn pit exposure by comparison happened quickly. So those veterans issues can be addressed quicker to the benefit for them and their families

This article is ill informed and just more propaganda…. Agree with @adamkinzinger.bsky.social

The level of audacity is mind blowing. Shame on these writers and the jackasses who printed it

Really?? how ignorant vets and others to think drump would care about their needs and make 1 thing better, come on! Dems said plenty as did MSNBC... Don't know about CNNs coverage

Sorry they are doing that to you. Such bullshit.

I know a Vietnam vet who had Stage 4 colon cancer from Agent Orange exposure who is STILL a rabid tRump supporter even after a number of us tried to explain to him that tRump & his sidekick Musk and Project 2025 would most likely be taking away his benefits he receives. He refused to believe us. 😕

Folks who don't want to spend this kind of money should remember this the next time they want to start a war: they won't need to spend on such things if they don't endanger the lives of the troops they claim to support.

I do know several non burn pit ‘disabled’ vets who get 100% disability but work full time in physically demanding jobs. Two are dog trainers and one is secret service. I’m all for actually disabled vets getting what they are entitled to. But there are some who game the system

Coming from a family full of vets, with many friends who served... NO, these people deserve EVERYTHING ever promised to them and more. We simply can NEVER repay their and their families' sacrifices.

Republicans have been wanting to destroy the VA for decades. Here's why. x.com/airbagmoment...

Absurdly!?! How about earned , deserved, owed, due to their sacrifices these veterans made! In my book the VA should have a blank check to take care of Americas veterans. Funds can be acquired from these types of pricks that write this 💩!

So much for carrying about pur veterans.

It’s all conditioning. Prepping us to be accepting when they start slashing VA benefits.

Setting the stage for the new administration.

Our veterans deserve to be getting benefits. (I know I'm preaching to the choir here)

What debt-reduction actions?

Thank you for your service, is just right wing political correctness. The country voted for a candidate, who died for this country, suckers and losers. They don’t give a damn really.

I’m afraid things are going to swing back that way as they devalue the most precious aspect of our military, it’s people.

And they are called Republicans

Here's the thing about caring Phil, sometimes you care, but when you are so poor you eat Ramen noodles like me it's not pretending to say I can't give out money, but I do wish that I could so I do effing care man.

I personally thought the headline was unpatriotic when I first read it. I knew too many who came back from Vietnam.

Trump has been compared to Hoover before - may as well get the Bonus Army in Anacostia Park again.

They seem to want conscription of expendable poor people. No benefits necessary.

Severely wounded vets are a relatively recent phenomenon.. there was an exhibit at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia a few years ago about civil war injuries and how the science of wound care started to evolve. Very, very cool.

My friend's niece is a pharmacist for the VA, for diabetes. She was told if project 2025 is implemented, she would lose her job because they'll only care for war related healthcare.

Got that! Love the fetus, hate the mother!

Every generation has to fight for it. We thought we won ours with the PACT Act. Now we find out it's just begun.

Politicians have been denying promised benefits to veterans since there have been veterans.

Veterans camps brought down a President...i.e. Hoover Camps after WWI

And losers !

And Social Security/Medicare since they were instituted. 🤬

because they all avoided military service, couldn't get their dainty little hands dirty

°They've been after anything that doesn't benefit them.