2019 VoteVets tweet with video: Pete Hegseth on Fox News, bashing veterans who get benefits they're entitled to

[highplainsdem]

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[Klarkashton]

1. Blaming the vets for being greedy...

This is what they are going to get.

[roomtomove]

4. I get that but

one point he made which I somewhat agree with is that vets should be able to seek doctors/medical help outside of the VA hospital system. I have worked at several VA hospitals (construction) and the V A hospital system is a bloated bureaucratic mess. A vet friend has to travel miles to get to his VA facility.

[Klarkashton]

7. Do you really believe that Vets with medical problems and are

Otherwise uninsured are going to be accepted into the private insurance world with no financial strings attached?
That guy is a shit talking no common sense right winger.

[XarmyGal]

8. They do have that

I get my appointments with the health care facilities in my community through the VA Healthcare System.

[odins folly]

12. It's not that it's a "bloated bureaucracy"

It’s that it has not been funded to keep pace with the ego inspired wars the US has started.

Thousands of young men and women gave their souls and bodies to support our involvement in foreign conflicts, only to come home and find no support system. When I first moved to AZ in a PCS move, I thought: well at least McCain supported the military. Big let down when he explained his support was to defense contractors who were giving “our troops the best equipment they could”…

republicans don’t give a shit about the broken bodies of their conflicts, paying the NFL to highlight service members and coining a sappy phrase is their stock in trade.

[odins folly]

11. "Thank you for your service"

A phrase I dislike btw, (20 year USAF retired), now fuck off …

[haele]

13. I really hate that too. Enlisted in 1977.

My service gave me tools to make a decent life for myself. Gave me a career. Sure, at times the rules were a pain in the butt, and there were long periods of ennui and short periods that exercised the adrenaline pumps, but other than that, it was a job.
I don't need to be thanked for doing a job. Thank a nurse or EMT, instead, please. Thank a teacher who is underpaid and overworked. Don't need to thank me.

Haele

[B.See]

2. Typical MAGA ratfkery

Because they don't give a flying ..... about those who serve this country.

Their "chosen one" who thinks they're "suckers and losers" and who wondered aloud over the graves of the fallen "what was 'in it' for them" - doesn't give a fk about veterans either.

He made a big ass (illegal) show of laying wreaths at Arlington prior to the election.

Does anyone even know where the fk he was yesterday, on VETERAN'S day?

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Yet, another thing that will go over their heads.

[Solly Mack]

5. Damn

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. My husband has some VA benefits as well as Tri-Care for Life(secondary insurance)

What does this joker plan to do about Retired Military who have earned their benefits with 20+ years of service such as Tri-Care, Space Available Military flights, VA benefits, etc?

[allegorical oracle]

9. He has a history of wanting to see the VA privatized. Plus, he's just a chip of the

ol' womanizing Fox block: (Wikipedia):

In August 2017, while still married to Deering, Hegseth had a daughter with Fox executive producer Jennifer Rauchet, with whom he was having an extramarital relationship.[14] He and Deering divorced in August 2017. Hegseth and Rauchet, who has three young children from her first marriage, married in August 2019.[38]

[Jit423]

10. Many of them voted for Trump. They got him!