Me. Be American. Serve my country in uniform for 8 years until I get blown up on my second deployment. Never return home so I can serve the federal government in DC and progress career. Serve as a government civilian for another 12 years.
Medically retire because I can’t drive to work anymore and most of my day is spent in the bathroom for one reason or another.
Move back home because that is where my support network is because I have almost daily medical appointments. Can never work again because of medical issues.
Rent on a two-bedroom apartment takes three quarters of my disability pay. A cell phone, internet, and electricity take the rest.
Food puts me slightly in debt. So do girl scout fees and karate classes for my daughter but I will provide no matter what.
Medical expenses that the government is supposed to pay often comes out of my pocket because the Department of Veterans Affairs is responsible for my care and they are efficiently killing veterans.
People call me a leech on society and make me reprove my income almost monthly for any social programs. I am constantly stressed so I’m starting to look the part.
Eventually the debt will catch up to me and I will be on the street with a “disabled veteran please help” sign.
The US department of Veterans Affairs will still claim that there are no homeless veterans.
They have intelligence agencies that crush the vocal ones. I protested and was assaulted after I was arrested. It changed my life. The government granted the agent who assaulted me immunity. You can Google the case and read the details. “Gilson v. Alvarez IV”.
The FBI presented modified evidence in order to try to put me in federal jail because I protested over a thought crime of doing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage because I was holding something over 3 lb. I luckily remembered something from almost a year prior which was on the tape that they excluded.
The system is not good for the people who are trying to fix the system. I was a federal employee and disabled veteran. I’m just trying to make America better. They’ll kill me for it.
Unfortunately half of the population genuinely believes that Healthcare is a privilege, not a right, and if you’re starving, homeless, or disabled, well you should’ve made better life choices.
They’re also obsessed with undoing the bit of progress we’ve made. Repealing the ACA (Obamacare) has been on their bingo card for years, but any specific regression other than the individual mandate turns out to be incredibly unpopular. “Want to remove the provision that allows kids to stay on their parents’ insurance until they’re 25? Well no, but what about allowing lifetime benefit limits again? Still no? Well at least allow insurance companies to charge more or refuse to cover you for pre-existing conditions!” And yet “repeal and replace” has haunted their platform since the ACA went into effect. Nevermind the fact that we still pay more per capita for Healthcare than any other western country and still have long wait times for appointments.
So yeah, that’s the kind of thing we’re up against, and gerrymandering ensures that nothing ever changes.
God. I’m so sorry. Every story I’ve heard about the VA is absolutely fucked.
I’ve never dealt with the VA and my knowledge of it is limited, but someone I care a lot about was in the Navy. She’s been suffering constant flashbacks and slowly losing touch with reality over the past couple weeks, she can’t really be on her own, we’ve been trying to get her any form of inpatient care or even just meds. She was sent home from the clinic several times when we brought her because technically my partner is around to take care of her. She wasn’t lucid enough during appointments to talk to a doctor, so they kinda just shrugged their shoulders, scheduled another appointment in 4 weeks, and let her go. We knew we were in way over our heads taking care of her, but we weren’t given any other option and she didn’t have anywhere else to go. Fast forward a week, she’s in a hypochondriac panic, had to be restrained in order to keep her from consuming poison, she breaks free and attacks my partner and a few cops, now she’s in jail when she should have been in a hospital weeks ago. I am still wrapping my head around how badly the system failed her, and I can only imagine how many stories like yours and hers there are.
Me. Be American. Serve my country in uniform for 8 years until I get blown up on my second deployment. Never return home so I can serve the federal government in DC and progress career. Serve as a government civilian for another 12 years.
Medically retire because I can’t drive to work anymore and most of my day is spent in the bathroom for one reason or another.
Move back home because that is where my support network is because I have almost daily medical appointments. Can never work again because of medical issues.
Rent on a two-bedroom apartment takes three quarters of my disability pay. A cell phone, internet, and electricity take the rest.
Food puts me slightly in debt. So do girl scout fees and karate classes for my daughter but I will provide no matter what.
Medical expenses that the government is supposed to pay often comes out of my pocket because the Department of Veterans Affairs is responsible for my care and they are efficiently killing veterans.
People call me a leech on society and make me reprove my income almost monthly for any social programs. I am constantly stressed so I’m starting to look the part.
Eventually the debt will catch up to me and I will be on the street with a “disabled veteran please help” sign.
The US department of Veterans Affairs will still claim that there are no homeless veterans.
I (Canadian) truly don’t understand why Americans aren’t occupying every government office in protest every week.
They have intelligence agencies that crush the vocal ones. I protested and was assaulted after I was arrested. It changed my life. The government granted the agent who assaulted me immunity. You can Google the case and read the details. “Gilson v. Alvarez IV”.
The FBI presented modified evidence in order to try to put me in federal jail because I protested over a thought crime of doing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage because I was holding something over 3 lb. I luckily remembered something from almost a year prior which was on the tape that they excluded.
The system is not good for the people who are trying to fix the system. I was a federal employee and disabled veteran. I’m just trying to make America better. They’ll kill me for it.
Unfortunately half of the population genuinely believes that Healthcare is a privilege, not a right, and if you’re starving, homeless, or disabled, well you should’ve made better life choices.
They’re also obsessed with undoing the bit of progress we’ve made. Repealing the ACA (Obamacare) has been on their bingo card for years, but any specific regression other than the individual mandate turns out to be incredibly unpopular. “Want to remove the provision that allows kids to stay on their parents’ insurance until they’re 25? Well no, but what about allowing lifetime benefit limits again? Still no? Well at least allow insurance companies to charge more or refuse to cover you for pre-existing conditions!” And yet “repeal and replace” has haunted their platform since the ACA went into effect. Nevermind the fact that we still pay more per capita for Healthcare than any other western country and still have long wait times for appointments.
So yeah, that’s the kind of thing we’re up against, and gerrymandering ensures that nothing ever changes.
Because fuck you, got mine.
Because about 40% of our population are moronic Trump supporters who support that shit
God. I’m so sorry. Every story I’ve heard about the VA is absolutely fucked.
I’ve never dealt with the VA and my knowledge of it is limited, but someone I care a lot about was in the Navy. She’s been suffering constant flashbacks and slowly losing touch with reality over the past couple weeks, she can’t really be on her own, we’ve been trying to get her any form of inpatient care or even just meds. She was sent home from the clinic several times when we brought her because technically my partner is around to take care of her. She wasn’t lucid enough during appointments to talk to a doctor, so they kinda just shrugged their shoulders, scheduled another appointment in 4 weeks, and let her go. We knew we were in way over our heads taking care of her, but we weren’t given any other option and she didn’t have anywhere else to go. Fast forward a week, she’s in a hypochondriac panic, had to be restrained in order to keep her from consuming poison, she breaks free and attacks my partner and a few cops, now she’s in jail when she should have been in a hospital weeks ago. I am still wrapping my head around how badly the system failed her, and I can only imagine how many stories like yours and hers there are.