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Originally Posted by tony286
we have never been at war with Iran,there was the hostage crisis but no war. The reason that happened was the cia installed the shah of iran. Also how old are you? I figured you were in your 40's like me. You get free government healthcare and it sounds like it has serviced you well. I thanked you for your service.
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I turn 50 next month, I know exactly why I was there, I had a clearance a lot higher than the average military person. The VA is just there if I need it, the only thing I have ever taken advantage of since I got out was a VA loan.
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Originally Posted by Sly
As I would never qualify for military service (there are many who can't) I am not completely familiar with how the VA operates. How long do you have to serve and what position in the military must you maintain in order to keep access to the VA? Does a four-year desk jockey get lifetime access to the VA? Sure, that person has served their country... so does my cousin that's a teacher in inner-city Chicago as part of a special program to help children of less than fortunate families, tough neighborhood. Maybe there should be an TA.
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Honorable discharge I believe and certain income levels or abilities to pay for it.
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Originally Posted by tony286
Dude please stop the bullshit. its boring your smarter than that. It borders on insulting. And actually the first time I got laid off was during reagan.
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What BullShit? I was in during the cold war, you would have shit you pants knowing some of the things I did.
I worked in the elevator industry in the 80's in high rises in LA, it was a good gig, sorry you got laid off, but as a whole, the country was a lot better off financially after Reagan got some things done
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Originally Posted by Agent 488
i hope you don't own weapons.
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Scary amount of weapons, but what's more scary is the military taugth me how to make them
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Originally Posted by _Richard_
so the entire economic disaster was the fault of the democrats?
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Everytime you screw with Taxes and adding new entitlements, you screw with the economy, no one that has money to invest wants to take a chance in a enviroment when they don't know whats going to happen next. Anyone that owned a house knew it wasn't going to last, I knew it, I still own my home. Because I didn't borrow against it, Obama borrowed against the economy thinking it would just fix itself, that didn't happen, now we're fucked and changes have to be made to get people with money to want to invest in expanding business in the US.
the logic of a man that thinks that having kids in school longer will help the school system is not whats going to work for our economy