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Just got enrolled in VA last month and love the care.

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I saw this last night when Jim Wright brought it up on his Twitter feed. Let's say he was not pleased, breaking out his English to Navy dictionary to express himself.

Several conservative parrots came in to his feed to say "I know a guy who is cheating the system by . . ." followed by being torn apart by veterans, active duty, and family members.

Conservatives will turn their thinking on a dime and all squawk the same talking point as soon as it's distributed. (They then call us lemmings or a hive mind or whatnot. It's projection, always.)

It is virtually impossible to cheat the VA system. My medical record package submitted with my claim weighed eight pounds. It took months, examinations, and interviews to be approved, and years to have the initial rating raised to 100%.

And those groups you're going after advocating for veterans to submit claims?

Those are The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars (hey dipwad, I'm a life member), Vietnam Veterans Association, Disabled American Veterans (I'm also a life member and my wife is a life auxiliary of that, and they are my medical advocates), the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and other groups.

Sure you don't need money, you get paid thousands of dollars just to flap your gums on Fox and Friends for a few minutes. Screw integrity; you're a Blue Falcon and by definition you have none.

And by the way, Mr. Hegseth, go find a cactus and rotate on it. I earned every dime of my disability for my service, and paid taxes all the time I was on active duty as well (as does every other active duty and reservist member of the Armed Forces).

I was all over the open thread expressing my outrage here in the last night. Jim Wright explained disability compensation to Mr. Hegseth, and other conservative parrots who came into his thread, without the benefit of civility. (Thread, twenty tweets, followed by hundreds of comments tearing apart conservatives from active duty, veterans, and family members by advocating for welching on our contracts).

Let me explain why this comment is so utterly dickheaded: Veterans go through a long, complex process to obtain their VA benefits. That process is based on LENGTHY examination of medical records from their service which includes assessment by experts of ...1/ pic.twitter.com/g1hMYGnSzK

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 6, 2019

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