Posted on 08/01/2024 7:20:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
The estimated Cost-of-Living-Adjustment for 2025 based on projections from the Senior Citizens League is in. VA will release the official payment schedule later this year.
+2.65% maybe.............
CHART AT 2:28 VIDEO ............
Pathetic!! Our dear vets deserve so much better.
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... What i find amazing it the fact that secretary McDoungh makes $179,000.00 a year as secretary of veterans affairs and he is getting a 13% pay raise this year. He has never even been into a combat zone or even the military. But he did run a tents for refugees program. In my humble opinion that sucks ....
Ridiculous and I don’t get it for at least 12 years and even I know that’s BS!
Well, that should make things a lot easie........oh! If I was in charge (lucky I’m not), honorably discharged folks that wrote a blank check to uncle Sam would be able to go to any medical facility, eye doc, dentist whatever, and be fully covered. Blank checks basically said ‘send me to my death if required’.
I’ll get enough to buy an extra case of dog food to eat each month!........................Good thing my dog died back in the spring.................
I swore an oath to defend and protect the Constitution, not lard-ass bureaucrats in DC....................
FARMER’S DOG FOOD - fresh ingredients.
Vets get screwed — again. Not to mention that illegal aliens get housed, fed, for simply breaking the law, while homeless vets who put their lives on the line for real (unlike law enforcement which doesn’t even break the top 20 most dangerous jobs) get kicked out of homeless hotel positions to make room for foreign parasites. Legal immigrants whom some claim to be too many are at least following the law and for the most part productive contributors to society (except for a certain Somali female who has been trying to turn the USA into Somalia).
Against ‘foreign and democrat’. Good sub for ‘domestic’.
Too expensive for my tastes........................ 🙄
It’s a travesty how Veterans are treated. I see shabbily clothed Vets walking the streets and being forced to make ends meet by frequenting the Veteran Assistance Commission locker room.
Meanwhile, illegals and those who could work, but don’t are feasting on foodstamps.
:-)
Spendy ... and, our dog couldn’t stand it!
So, I make his dog food now (with fresh ingredients/meats).
Should be at least 7.65% thanks to the ongoing disaster of Democrat Joe Biden
It IS just sickening to see these dear, as you say ‘shabbily clothed’ vets barely getting by, after ALL of THEIR sacrifices .... while these flown in first class ILLEGALS are ‘feasting on food stamps’, on OUR tax dollars.
And after getting the cola congress will vote themselves a substantial pay increase.
Not to mentIon it is reduced by paying taxes on it.....
Farmer’s Dog Food at Walmart = $17.46 + 8.25% tax = $18.90 for 6 lbs. of “steamed with fresh all natural chicken, vitamin-rich peas & carrots and high fiber brown rice”. How fresh? Probably 1 lb of chicken beaks and skin, 1 lb of vegs and 4 lbs of rice.
Make it yourself with Walmart prices:
real chicken meat = 68 cents (quarters with meat yield of 80% and there is a bonus of stock)
peas = 34 cents
carrots = 39 cents
brown rice = 2 lbs dry = 4 lbs cooked = $1.64
Total cost for 6 lbs = $3.05 with extra stock and $0 tax on real food.
Ukraine and illegals are more important.
a day every once in a while I wake up and feel pretty good about things. Then I read an article like this and the comments. My BP soars and the rest of the day is down hill.
Want to know why the idle and illegals are getting a magic carpet while our Vets are getting screwed. Watch the voting this November and take note of the Virginia vote. Most of the state, south of Fredericksburg will be in and the vote will be 60 40 for Trump. Then will come in the vote from the three counties around DC, Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax. The vote will end up being like 55 for giggles and 45 for Trump. Why? Because of all the needless, wasteful, garbage DC-a-slimes living in those counties. There was a time long gone when there were actual government workers there, now, not so much. Paycheck cashers, now, many of whom do not even have to go to an office.
We are doomed.
Sorry about the dog. I know what you mean about the snippet of scraps the government gives that’s actually owed to you. Jerks!
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