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customerserviceguy

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4. True

Reply to delisen (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 16, 2019, 06:52 PM

Jun 2019

It was a way to absorb returning service personnel from WWII, to keep them from inflating the unemployment rate. It was well done, except for the racial disparities you correctly note.

But, educational benefits have been seen as part of a servicemember's compensation for a long time now. I think it insults our servicemembers to have those benefits, as well as the others you mention to be characterized as some sort of socialist welfare.

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McSally's Dad Succeeded with Socialist Supports. So Did McSally. [View all] TexasTowelie Jun 2019 OP

I'll give you the "socialist support" label on the survivors benefits customerserviceguy Jun 2019 #1

The original G.I bill of 1944 was not compensation as we know it delisen Jun 2019 #3

True customerserviceguy Jun 2019 #4

Frankly Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #2