I’ve always believed there’s more we should be doing for members of our military. Absolutely they deserve quality healthcare and the VA should extend their program with locals hospitals to cover costs of care.
But healthcare and college tuition are only small fractions as to why one decides to serve in our military. So yeah, give them these so-called “freebies” they’re earning them- PB/TK
The government needs to end its military “freebies” recruitment tactics – By Taylor Millard / July 28 2017
There’s been plenty of reaction across the political spectrum on President Donald Trump’s tweets about banning transgender troops. Vox put together a roundup of people and politicians who were angry about the decision, while The Daily Wire wrote only 12% of active duty military supported transgender troops and also claimed gender transitioning was self-mutilation. From a personal standpoint, I don’t care if someone is gay, straight, trans, sheep-lover, into BDSM, whatever, if they want to serve in the military and pass the appropriate tests, I think they should be able to serve their country.
The problem is people aren’t willing to look at why this is even an issue to begin with. It may be easy to sit there and say, “Oh, it’s about trans-freedom,” or, “oh, it costs too much to help with the transitioning,” but the fact is this debate wouldn’t be going on if the government didn’t hand out so many “freebies” to military members. This includes the VA system and the GI Bill.
Let’s face it, the government has never gotten the military health care system right. The first Veterans’ Bureau director spent time in prison for fraud after it was discovered he didn’t give disability insurance to wounded vets. The VA scandal from the last few years showed hundreds of thousand of vets may have died while waiting for care, and the so-called reforms haven’t worked. There was the report of the North Carolina veteran lying on the floor of a VA hospital in February in hopes of getting attention. The VA system is more shattered than a dropped Faberge egg, yet the government won’t stop throwing money at it. The 2018 budget request is $72.3B, and the 2019 request is expected to be $74B. That’s insane, and tossing more cash at the problem won’t solve it.
Continue to hotair.com article: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/07/28/government-needs-end-military-freebies-recruitment-tactics/
