If I LEND you my car for the trip or RENT you my car for Vegas, you have either signed a rental lease and shaken hands and agreed to RETURN the car with a FULL gas tank.
THEFT (taking) is having no intention of ever returning the car and maybe even “forgetting” to tell me you are the one who has it.
When I took my “GI Loan”, the guarantee was by the VA, but the money came from a local bank. I took nothing and paid it monthly until “paid in full”. The bank made money, the town collected the taxes, the furniture stores made money, and everyone involved had nothing TAKEN from them.
"The VA" is a proxy for "The Taxpayers". Had you defaulted on that loan, we the taxpayers would have been on the hook for it. A country can get in real trouble with that sort of thing ...
You're welcome.
That swann fellow was a d-bag, for sure. His comment #30 clearly marked him so.
There are a lot of things the government is doing, and some of "us" even benefit from them, that the government SHOULD NOT be doing. Let's not defend the indefensible just because we happened to benefit from it and some self-righteous creep was criticizing it.