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Hey everybody, welcome to Veterans Talk on military
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I am absolutely in awe over what's been going on the last
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couple weeks with the whole Take Care of Veterans Act and in the
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lack of understanding. I guess, you know, here I am
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just a regular old veteran who is a combat injured veteran.
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And I took the last week and a half to two weeks to actually
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dive into it and figure it out and figure out what they were
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talking about. And it's just a common sense,
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Bill. It really is.
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So, but before we get in that and dig in, I just like to thank
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everybody out there that's watching me, everybody who is
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listening to me. I appreciate each and everyone
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of you. And I know this is going to be a
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long journey, but if you have any questions or anything, feel
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free to call in at 720-619-0627 or you can hit us on the live
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stream or in the chat or Facebook or wherever else that
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I'm at TikTok or whatever be it. I know that this has been a very
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difficult time for everybody and it is very, very, very, very
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confusing what is going on. So I am going to dive in and
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talk about the Major Richard Starr Act, the Love Lives On and
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all these other different things were all kind of put into this
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big beautiful bill called Take Care of Veterans Act.
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Now before I dive in, a big shout out to H train.
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I know he's under the weather. So I love you, brother.
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I hope you're feeling better. Battle buddy check, check on
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your battle buddies when you guys are out there and and stuff
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like that. And to everybody else, you know,
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John, and on on the radio show and everybody else who's helped
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me to perfect this, I guess, and who's out there listening and,
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and taking care of me, I, I again, I appreciate it.
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So without further ado, I just wanted to jump in.
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So if you guys haven't heard already, the take care of
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veterans Act was unanimously yade.
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So the Democrats and Republicans both 155 to 147 votes, all said
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yes, that's 303 to move it forward, right?
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So the next part of that and how that works is that the bill is
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then pushed on to to a possible vote to move forward for a vote.
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But Mike Johnson, who is the speaker of the House, said,
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let's put a pause on that. There's too much going on and
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too many people don't understand the bill and let's send it back.
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I don't think you guys realize what was done when when that
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happened. I mean, it is catastrophically
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by far one of the most horrible things that we could have done
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to our veterans. So I'm going to put my
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headphones on because I feel like there might be an echo, but
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I'd really like to hear your thoughts and stuff.
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So, so here we are. So one of the things that really
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bothers me with this is the Take care of Veterans Act, right?
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What is it? And we'll dive into that right
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away almost and see what that is all about and what it, what it
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entails and, and who it entails and what who it benefits, right?
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Here's something that is really, really heartbreaking and
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nerving. And I'll just tell you just just
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off the top of the head where it came from, right?
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So where we're at rather. And then we'll kind of digest
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into the actual HR 9237, which is the Taking Care of Veterans
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Act and Section one O 8, which everybody's just hell bent on
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about tinnitus and sleep apnea. And we'll just dive in.
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Listen, this is not a reflection of MBR military broadcast radio
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or anybody at MBR. This is only my personal view as
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a combat veteran who this bill takes care of one, just one of
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the people this bill took care would have taken care of had it
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been passed. So the House actually sidelined
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the bill today. So because of the controversy of
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the VFW against the American, I mean, these are organizations
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that have been around for a while, right?
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And you're supposed to have the best interest of the veterans,
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right? So it says I, I guess the
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biggest way, and I'm just so hyped on this and everything is
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everybody's acting like they're taking money away from veterans.
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OK, First and foremost, nobody's taking any money away from
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veterans. Nobody there.
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There's nobody going back and going, well, if you have sleep
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apnea, we're going to take that away from you.
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If you have tonight as we're going to take that away.
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That is a misconception that is misleading and that is totally a
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false narrative that every single one of your organizations
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that are preaching that IVA, VFW, all of you guys that are
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preaching that, oh, it's going to take away from veterans.
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You guys are horrible, horrible. I think each and every one of
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you should lose your positions immediately.
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I mean, I, I've never seen so much just just misinformation
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dealt out. It's unbelievable.
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So anyways, the the House House Republicans they just pulled,
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they pulled a controversial veterans measure after it
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narrowly defeated a Democrat LED effort to force massive
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revisions to the proposal. So Speaker Mike Johnson blamed
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the misinformation about Take Care of Veterans Act for the
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decision and said the measure will be delayed for several
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weeks while leadership considers next steps.
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The Republicans defeated a motion to recommit the bill by a
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211 to 210 vote after lobbying Republican defectors for nearly
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30 minutes. So a heated conversation
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unfolded in the speaker's ceremonial office as GOP leaders
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try to whip with whip holdouts on the bill, according to four
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people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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OK, so there's a lot of people fighting about this, right?
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So if you go online, you'll see that there is fighting that's
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going on between the VFW Veterans of Foreign Wars and the
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I I got I got H train in here trying to fix my camera.
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Try to fix it again, buddy. I have no idea what I'm doing.
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He said I'm trying I'm trying to fix your camera but I can't.
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All right, so I got H train in here trying to fix my camera.
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If you can hear me H train trying to fix my camera again,
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please. But I sound good.
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Fix my camera man. Come back and fix my camera.
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Anyway, I got H train saying that he tried to fix my camera
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but it didn't work. So I don't I don't know what's
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going on anyway, I don't think my camera looks pretty good to
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me anyway. Maybe I just look bad for the
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camera. So anyways, back to what I was
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saying. So one of the important things
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is, is that in the taking care of Veterans Act, right?
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It is truly one of the most comprehensive bills.
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It's it's almost a bill that that would have taken care of
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veterans. It is all the way across the
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board. So to dive in a little bit of
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the taking care of veterans Act. And what the big deal is is that
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the VFW is so hell bent and the IVA, which is Iraq and
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Afghanistan Veterans of America. Thanks H Train for fixing my
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camera. So the take care of of a
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veterans act that the VFW veterans of foreign wars and the
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and shame on you guys, man, shame on you.
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I've I've watched your statements.
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It's it's so it's so ignorant of you guys to sit here and and say
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that this bill would take take away stuff from from veterans.
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So I want to slow it down a little bit.
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We'll talk about the bill. We'll talk about my opinion.
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I'll talk about what I dove deep in.
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This is going to be a long show, guys, so stay with me.
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I hope that I can I can make it all fit and it makes sense
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somewhat. So what the bill does was part
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of the bill would have included the Major Richard Starr Act.
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So if you've ever followed my show, you know that I talked
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about the Major Richard Starr Act and how important that is.
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What is the Major Richard Starr Act?
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So just to recap on that, that is a bill that has unanimous
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bipartisan support, but it can't pass because they don't know
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where they're going to get the money from.
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And what it does is it reinstates the offset or the
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combat tax. Now, this is for combat veterans
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only. If a veteran was injured in
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combat and was forced to retire from the military under Chapter
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61. Again, if they were forced to
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retire before 20 years under Chapter 61 in the military and
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were injured during combat. So if they receive a CRSC, which
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is a combat related specialty compensation, which is peanuts
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by the way, it's usually 600 to 1000.
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I think it's the Max I've ever seen.
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They would then this bill would then wipe away that tax, as they
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call it, a veteran's combat tax, and they would get their
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retirement, which I think is only fair, right?
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I mean, if somebody serves in combat like the Jed Morgan, I
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always put him out there. I'm pretty sure he's tired of me
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talking about Jed Morgan. Was a Marine, served in the
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Marine Corps, stepped on a pressure plate, lost both his
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legs. OK.
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What is not to say that Jed Morgan was going to do 2025,
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thirty years in the Marine Corps.
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What is to say he wasn't? But because he lost both of his
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legs, he was severely injured. He is now medically retired from
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the military, right? They forced him out of the
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military to retire. He is retiree.
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So what does he get? He gets his ID card, he gets his
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Tricare for life, but he doesn't get his retirement.
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You're talking about 2200 bucks, 2300 bucks, something like that,
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right? I'm just saying for number sake,
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right? He does not get that money
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because he didn't do a full 20. Now, now listen up.
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If you're in the military for 20 years or more and you retire and
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you go to the VA and you say, hey, I'm injured, I hurt my back
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from airborne school or my knees are shot or whatever be it, and
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you are now 100% permanent in total.
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We'll just, we'll use 100% 'cause I like using that number.
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If you're 100% permanent in total, you now get both of them.
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You get your retirement, which is like 29, three thousand,
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5000, whatever it is your rank is that you retired at and you
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get your 4000 and whatever, whatever money from the VA you
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get both of them. Hold on.
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It gets even worse or better if you are the spouse of a loved
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one that was killed on active duty.
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It doesn't matter if it was combat.
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It doesn't matter if it was a traffic accident, doesn't matter
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if they were on a motorcycle accident.
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If you are the spouse, husband, wife of somebody who died while
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on active duty, you get both their retirement and a portion
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of their VA disability. I'll say that again, if you do
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20 years in the military and retire and are disabled through
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the VA, you get both of them, you get both your retirement.
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So why would you not give that to a combat injured veteran?
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I'm sorry that that just makes no sense to me.
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You asked them to go before in a combat zone and they were
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severely injured and forced to retire.
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Not at their choice. They didn't say, oh I'd like to
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retire now. They were forced out of the
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military to retire. Why would you not give them
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their retirement? So, so that's what the Major
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Richard Star Act would do is wipe that away.
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Now, we had the opportunity to roll the Major Richard Star.
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And by the way, Major Richard Star Act has been going on for
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like 5 years. So we had the opportunity to put
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the Major Richard Star Act into this.
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I call it the Big beautiful veterans Bill, we'll call it
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that. I know you guys hate me right
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now. So we're going to call it the
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big beautiful veterans bill, right?
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The big, big, big beautiful bill, the big beautiful veterans
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bill. They said we're going to put
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that in there. So they were going to put the
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Major Richard Starry act, the Love lives on Act, which by the
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way, that is so important because I have no idea why I
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don't know who in the right mind even thought of this being being
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a a law. But the law, the way it's
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written right now is that if a spouse, husband or wife gets
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killed while on active duty, they cannot remarry until the
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age of 55 or 57. If they do, they lose all their
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benefits. They lose their retirement.
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The the retirement money they get, the, the Tricare they get
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and everything they lose all of that, all of that goes away.
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So you're telling me that a 22 year old whose husband goes off
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to combat or a 25 year old who's wife goes off to combat, who
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gets killed in a roadside bomb or gets killed by a mortar
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attack can never remarry again? Because if they do, they lose
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all their benefits. So you can never love again.
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You can never get remarried again, never fall in love again
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and never start a new family again Because if you do, we're
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going to take your money away. That's ignorant.
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So, so, so now we have the Major Richard Starr act, the Love
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Lives on Act mental health. Listen, I mean, you guys really
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need to dive deep into this and, and look at this.
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I mean, this is crazy, absolutely crazy.
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The amount of stuff that was in this taking care of veterans act
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was huge. It is so huge.
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I mean, it, it's bigger than huge.
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It has to do with mental health. Love lives on extension of
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increased dependency in in in indemnity compensation.
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So those people who lost a loved one while on activity, they'll
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get more money. The last time that was checked
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was in the 1960s. OK, the Sherry really and Eric
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Edmondson Veteran Benefit Expansion Act of 2026 claims
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prohibit Oh OK, claims that are denied solely for certain
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reasons improve efficiency of adjudications and appeals and do
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a report on causes of death among veterans.
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Listen VFW, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Seriously, you, you need to worry about all your posts that
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are closing right now and what you're doing then worrying about
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this one little one O 8 here. Reforms related to the
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Department of Federal Affairs, disability raids.
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That's what you guys, you IVA, Iraq and Afghanistan, veterans
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of America, the DAV and by the way, I'm a member of all you
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knuckleheads. I am a life member of each and
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everyone of you knuckleheads. And you guys sat there and you
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fought against this bill because of one O 8, section one O 8.
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And I'll go into details later on into the show about what
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section one O 8 is, but you guys literally sat there and fought
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against one section of this bill, negating everything else
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that was in there. The major richest star act, the
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Love Lives On Act, the extension of increased dependency DIC is
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what they call it. OK for short, the Eric Edmondson
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Veterans Benefit Expansion Act annual report on causes of death
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among veterans, which I think is absolutely important.
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Absolutely important. Improvements to temporary
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licensure requirements for contract healthcare
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professionals who perform medical disability examinations
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for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Improves, I mean, disability examination study on access in
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rural areas. Improvements to processing and
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outreach regarding claims involving military sexual
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trauma. I'll know you got listen, I read
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about that one, the sexual trauma, VFW, IVA, all you
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knuckleheads out there, you guys didn't touch anything on there,
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but you guys are crying. Tinnitus, Oh my God, sleep
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apnea. Oh my God, You're going to take
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that away? Nobody's taking anything away.
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But you didn't want to talk about the, the, the, the sexual
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trauma, right? Commander of the VFW.
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You should be ashamed of yourself.
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You're a nurse. You are a nurse.
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And you should know better than this.
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You guys are shameful. Seriously shameful.
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Independent assessment of notices that the Secretary of
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Veterans Affairs sends to claimants.
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Independent assessments of forms that the Secretary of Veterans
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Affairs sentence to claimants. Education economic
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opportunities. This is all in that bill that's
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Opportunity Act improves the process for making payments to
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automobile sellers for automobiles purchase for certain
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disabled veterans. Really.
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Monthly housing stipend under the post 9/11 Educational
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Assistance Program for individuals who pursue summer
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programs of education solely through distant learning.
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And it goes on and on. Clarification regarding
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inclusion of medically necessary automobile adaptations, digital
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communications, improvements to transition assistance programs,
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transition assistance programs, presentations, I mean listen.
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Elimination of requirement that on campus education and
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vocational counseling is provided.
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Expansion of entitlement for payment for licensing or
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certification tests for veterans entitled to education
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assistance. So somebody who wants to go get
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their license to be a mechanic, all of that, that was all that
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was that's all in this taking care of veterans act veterans
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caregiver Act veterans TBI breakthrough exploration of
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adaptive care opportunities nationwide.
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Department of Veterans Affairs assessment for travel physicians
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to serve territories that are like likely not frequented,
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right? So if you live out in the middle
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of nowhere, inclusion of adaptive prosthetics,
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modifications and reauthorization.
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Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant
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Program. Oh, but you guys didn't talk
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about that. A commander VFW.
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Yeah, you didn't talk about that.
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You're a nurse, right? I'm a nurse and I serve and I'm
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a combat veteran. But you didn't talk about that.
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You didn't talk about the suicide prevention that's
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written in there. All you cared about was the
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tinnitus and the sleep apnea, right?
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For future veterans for people who are still serving in the
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military are going to serve in the military.
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That's what you were worried about.
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You guys killed this bill on was that and we're going to dive
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into that Furnishing of certain health services to veterans in
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their freely associated states. Modification of precision
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medicine for veteran reporting on suicide by veterans and and
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and members of the armed forces. I mean this is there's so much
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in this bill pilot program implementation of a report
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efforts for the Veterans Affairs appointment scheduling research
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related to menopause pre menopause and midlife Women's
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Health women. You guys should be all upset
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over this. I'm seriously veterans spinal
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trauma, access to new devices, bow and bladder authorization of
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appropriation of office of information establishment under
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the secretary of management and chief financial officer.
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It goes on listen, the the list is goes on and on and on and on
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and on and on and on. Listen, I could sit here all day
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and talk about what was in this beautiful bill.
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Seriously, I could I could talk about everything that was in
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this bill. But you know what, you guys want
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to sit there and shoot it down. The VFW literally a long with
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the DAV and IVA and other organizations that are that are
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out there literally fought this bill and said it's taken away
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from veterans, taken away from veterans.
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So we're going to talk about that.
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What would it be or what would mislead or lead somebody to
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listen, the VFW is a huge organization.
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So is DAV and IVA, right? They're they're, they're big
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organization. Well, Iva's kind of whatever.
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Paul, I know you're, you probably never watch this
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because you never get off your couch anymore, but I, I really
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don't care. Listen, I, I've met you one time
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long time ago and you guys were like, whatever.
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Listen, I got it. These organizations are out
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there supposed to be helping veterans.
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Really, if you want to help a veteran, why don't you guys go
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against the veterans are sitting there and saying.
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We can help you get 100% VA pension.
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Pension and compensation is not a welfare system.
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Stop treating it like that because that's exactly what you
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guys are doing. You're treating it as a welfare
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system. It was never meant to be a a
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free money. Veterans deserve everything they
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get. You're absolutely right.
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I'm a veteran, I know combat veteran, I know 100% permanent
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total. I get it.
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But listen to me and listen to me on this permanent and total
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pension and compensation from the VA.
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Money is not a free service. You have literally military
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personnel right now. They're still serving in the
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military. They have a year left, two years
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left, and they're already 100% before they even get out of the
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military. You guys are going to bankrupt
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the VA. You're going to bankrupt this
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country? Seriously, it's stupid.
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Oh, but veterans deserve everything they get.
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OK, so let me ask you a question.
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They serve four years in an office position, never once see
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the field, never wore a Kevlar except for when they qualify on
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the range with a weapon, never been to combat are are non
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deployable. They get out and they're 100%
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permanent total because they have carpal tunnel from writing
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with their pencil. I I know I'm going to catch a
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lot of Flack for this, but do you think that that's fair?
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Do you think that that's fair? Because you see, the VA
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compensation and pension was designed to offset a veteran who
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gets injured. And I'm going to give you, I'm
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going to give you a, a, a very generic example.
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A veteran hurts their back while they're in the military.
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Doesn't matter how they hurt it. Jump off of a freaking track
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vehicle, whatever be it play football on active duty, I don't
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care. They hurt their back airborne.
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Perfect example. They jump out of an airplane,
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jump down, they hurt their back, compress their disc, and now
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they're screwed, right? They get out and they cannot
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have a normal civilian job, right?
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They can't be a police officer, they can't be a firefighter,
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they can't be whatever it is, right?
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Because they have a compressed disk and they've had operation
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after operation. They can barely get around and
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stuff like that, right? The pension and compensation was
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made for that individual, that veteran to help take care of
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them because they could not find a, a, a, a, a, a career, if you
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will. That's what it's designed for.
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It's not designed for Bob or Josie or whoever it is that gets
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out of the military and goes, oh, I got a extra $4600 a month
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and I'm going to go work for the government making $130,000.
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That is not what it's made for. It is not a welfare.
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It is not meant for every veteran.
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Now, let's back this up one step.
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Medical, absolutely. I think if a veteran serves his
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obligation in the military, whether it's 2-3 or four years,
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I think they should get medical no matter what.
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Ingrown toenail, absolutely. Hernia, absolutely.
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Nosebleed, 100%. Menopause, 100%.
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They want to get their freaking tubes tied or whatever, be it.
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Absolutely. I should say, I think, I think
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it should be paid for. But compensation and pension or
23:29
money, Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
23:32
I think that we're giving that away so quick and so freely.
23:35
It is making my head spin right now.
23:38
And because we are becoming a society and I think that this is
23:42
really important to listen to is that we have become a society
23:46
now. And if you look at it, you see
23:48
all, listen, I cannot go 5 seconds on TikTok or Instagram
23:53
or whatever it is on social media without getting somebody
23:56
saying, are you 50%? Well, we guarantee you we can
23:59
get you your 100%. Those people all need to be out
24:03
of there. Are you serious right now?
24:06
I mean, you're just as bad as these lawyers saying, oh, you've
24:08
been in a car accident. I can get you money.
24:10
Hey, you've been you've been hit by a rock, rock flew, broke your
24:13
windshield. We can get you money.
24:16
What are we doing as a society? Our morals are piss poor.
24:21
Veterans. Veterans used to stand for
24:24
something. There is no veteran.
24:27
Listen, in my my era, there's no veteran that stood there and
24:29
said, man, I can't wait to get out because man, the VA is going
24:31
to pay me. Nobody ever did that.
24:36
Nobody did that. There is no veteran that did
24:38
that. I'm telling you we are live in a
24:42
society where everything seems like it's pre regulated and free
24:46
and it's not. We are not free.
24:49
We have no more morals anymore it seems.
24:52
Yeah, I read this one post and I'll read it later on from
24:55
Facebook and it was I, I, I told the guy I go absolutely agree
24:57
with you 100%. A, a veteran doesn't sit there
25:01
and go, you owe it to me. No, we took that oath and raised
25:05
our right hand. It was a volunteer position that
25:07
we took. Now, nobody knew you were going
25:10
to get hurt in Iraq or Afghanistan or Djubadi or
25:14
Djibouti or whatever it is. But for God's sake, you can get
25:17
PTSD now through the VA 100% from doing war games on a
25:24
computer because it because it might, it seems so real.
25:28
You could get PTSD from it. Are you out of your flipping
25:30
minds? What is going on?
25:35
I, I'm just at a loss. I, I really am.
25:37
I'm at a loss. So again, if you're just now
25:39
joining me, we're talking about the Take Care of Veterans Act
25:42
that was just shot down completely by organizations.
25:45
And it, it literally everybody was pit saying that it was
25:48
pinning veterans against veterans.
25:49
And listen, first of all, look up the word veteran.
25:52
What it means if you're on active duty right now, you are
25:56
not a veteran, you're on active duty.
25:59
You are a soldier, a Marine, a sailor, a airman, a space force,
26:03
a Coast Guard, whatever it is, you're on active duty.
26:06
Look up the word veteran. Look it up.
26:10
These guys are literally getting out of the military.
26:13
Listen, I, I belong to a Facebook group called 100%
26:16
permanent total everyday. Hey, I'm getting ready to get
26:19
out of the Army. I'm already 100%.
26:22
What was that? Probably took me 14 years to get
26:25
100%. Fourteen years.
26:29
I know people, it took them 35 years to get 100%.
26:33
These these people are getting out of the military now with
26:36
100%. Is that good?
26:41
I'm just confused. I'm really confused on how this
26:44
is possible. I really AM.
26:48
I'm going to take a short break, literally a short, short break.
26:50
We're going to come back. We're going to talk more about
26:52
the taking care of veterans act on Veterans talk, military
26:55
broadcast radio ears to GJ Magic Mike and I am going to dive in
27:00
over the biggest controversy that the VFW and IVA seem to
27:04
think is like, Oh my God, it's so important you're taking away
27:07
from veterans and they're just, they are so, so, so lame for
27:13
saying this, but we'll be right back.
27:15
We'll take a quick video break. I just, we need to dive into
27:19
this and we'll be right back. Whenever things get rough or it
30:25
feels like you're at the edge, remember this storms pass.
30:31
Tough times don't last, but tough people do.
30:40
All right, everybody back with yours truly magic on the radio
30:44
here at military broadcast radio veterans talk and we're talking
30:46
about the Taking Care of veterans Act that was just
30:50
absolutely hijacked by the DAV, by IVA, by VFW.
30:55
And I'm diving deep into it because I, I, I want everybody
30:58
to understand what, what, what transpired.
31:03
I mean really, truly what transpired.
31:05
And I just want to read you guys some some things that that just
31:09
blow my mind. So one, one of the biggest
31:15
things is the misconception of what they're arguing about with
31:19
tinnitus. They're saying you're taking
31:21
from future veterans. First of all, you're not taking
31:26
anything away from future veterans.
31:27
Read the freaking bill as it was written.
31:30
Read the bill as it was written. And I'm going to dive into that
31:32
real quick. And then we're going to talk
31:33
about what it exactly is. OK, so this is the actual HHR
31:38
9237 hundred and 19th Congress, right?
31:41
This is the actual bill. Take care of veterans, right?
31:43
And in section one O 8, which is everybody's complaining about,
31:47
right, We'll go to one O 8 right here on the bill.
31:50
I, I, I mean, I, I can't make this any clearer.
31:52
This is, this is like, this is like childish man.
31:56
This is like juvenile. I'm not even a lawyer man.
31:58
And I can read this bill and figure out what it is.
32:01
So in, in in section one O 8 of the HR 9237, which is the, you
32:07
know, Veterans Act, it says about, well, let's let's start
32:14
off here, compensation one O 1 Major Richard Star act,
32:17
concurrent recipient general section, right?
32:20
And then we'll just go down. And then it goes to the love
32:23
lives on Act. There is the extension of
32:26
increased DIC what I talked about, right?
32:29
These are all the things that are in this this bill.
32:32
And then when you get to One O 8, it sits here and it says, I
32:36
got to find it again. I'm sorry about that.
32:38
I had it. And then I took a break and I
32:39
started reading something else. So I got a little ADHD here.
32:42
But and, and, and, and just to be clear on it, section One O 8
32:47
is literally like this big. It, it's tiny.
32:51
It is so tiny. Let's see here.
32:54
Annual report notice of avoidable deferrals of claims.
32:58
One O 6's annual report of causes of death among veterans,
33:01
Right. So then you go to One O 8, OK,
33:04
one O 7 is even big. One O 8 is literally one
33:07
paragraph. That's it.
33:09
But this is what the VFW Veterans of Foreign War and DAV
33:13
and IVA and whatever the other, that other freaking VSO, I've
33:17
never even heard of them is, is complaining about reforms
33:21
related to the Department of Veterans Affairs disability
33:24
ratings. This is this is what's killing
33:26
the bill. This is what is keeping all that
33:28
good stuff in the bill from moving forward, right?
33:32
Because these people are misinformed.
33:34
And I think it's negligence for the VFW commander to stand there
33:38
as a nurse and say, oh, but this is unfair for future claimants.
33:42
No, it's not. Explain to me and the rest of us
33:45
veterans how this is taking money away from future veterans.
33:49
And, and I'm going to read it. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's
33:51
very simple radius for sleep apnea because that's, that's
33:54
what everybody's complaining about, sleep apnea, tinnitus,
33:57
right? Radius for sleep apnea in
33:59
general. The Secretary of Veterans
34:00
Affairs shall revise the schedule for rating disabilities
34:04
adopted and applied under section 1155 of Title 38.
34:10
Timeout. What is section 1155 of Title
34:14
38? Well, section 1155 of the Title
34:17
30 of the United States Code authorizes the Department of
34:19
Veterans Affairs to maintain and apply a schedule of radiance for
34:24
reducing earning capacity from specific service member service
34:28
connected injuries. This law requires that the
34:30
schedule to be based disability payments strictly on the average
34:35
impairments of earning capacity in civil occupations using
34:39
exactly 10 grades of disability from 10% to 100.
34:44
Now I picked that apart with ChatGPT with all kinds of AIS
34:47
and everything like that. Section 155 of Title 38 says
34:53
that the US Department of Veterans Affairs right that's
34:57
that's the VA has the ability to reduce earning capacity from
35:01
specific service connected injuries.
35:05
OK so let's break this down a little bit more.
35:08
What does that mean in layman's terms?
35:09
Because it's all like numbers and everything like that.
35:12
If you have athlete's foot, we'll use that one because that
35:19
was talked about by the VFW knuckleheads.
35:22
If you have athlete's foot, right, because you are not able
35:27
to change your boots like a normal civilian, right?
35:29
You're in combat or whatever, be it, you can't change your your
35:31
shoes, whatever. You get athlete's foot and it
35:33
turns into really bad athlete's foot and you can't get it cured.
35:36
And then all of a sudden they give you a pill or medicine or
35:39
creams, whatever, and that goes away.
35:41
Do you think that that person should still be paid and
35:43
compensated for athlete's foot? If you say, yeah, just just just
35:48
go put, just go put gasoline in your eyes.
35:50
Seriously, just just do something stupid because you're
35:53
stupid because there's no reason for that.
35:56
There's no reason for that. So do you think that somebody
35:59
who loses their job, because we're not talking about veterans
36:02
right now, we're going to talk about regular civilians?
36:04
So you think that somebody loses their job that gets
36:06
unemployment, should continue to get unemployment when they find
36:09
a new job? Oh, that's what I thought.
36:17
Crickets, right? Absolutely not.
36:20
So why would we compensate somebody with money if they're
36:23
fixed? Because it might come back.
36:26
Well, when it comes back, we'll pay them again.
36:28
It's, it's that simple. But, but seriously, why would we
36:31
do that? First and foremost, nobody's
36:35
taking away sleep apnea or tinnitus.
36:36
If you have it and you're 100% or 50% for sleep, 100% for sleep
36:40
apnea is almost unheard of. So most people are 50% for sleep
36:43
apnea because they have AC PAP, that's the machine deal.
36:46
But it sounds like Darth Vader. So if you have sleep apnea now
36:50
moving forward that that's you, you have sleep apnea, Nobody's
36:54
going to take that away. That was a big misconception
36:56
when the when the Take Care of Veterans Act first came out,
36:59
everybody, Oh, but they're going to take away sleep.
37:00
Nobody's taking away anything. Nobody's taking anything away.
37:04
OK, So this is what they wrote in the bill.
37:08
They wrote in the bill, I'm sorry, I have to keep going back
37:11
and forth because I'm sure that, you know, I'm going to get all
37:13
kinds of people commenting and and saying, hey, knucklehead,
37:16
this and that. So here's what they wrote in the
37:20
bill, OK? They wrote in the bill that
37:25
under that section right of HR 9237, that in general, the
37:33
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall revise the schedule rating
37:37
of disabilities adapted and applied under section 111 up the
37:40
United States called as follows as follows.
37:42
A grade of disability of 0% shall be assigned for sleep
37:45
apnea syndrome when the syndrome is asymptomatic.
37:49
For you guys that are not really medically inclined out there,
37:52
and I had to look this up because I'm like, I thought that
37:55
meant one thing and it does. It means exactly what I thought
37:57
it was. A grade of disability of 0%
38:00
shall be assigned for sleep apnea syndrome when the syndrome
38:04
is a symptomatic with or without treatment.
38:08
OK, just for you guys out there, break this down Barney style.
38:12
Hold your hand like a small child.
38:14
Asymptomatic means they're not there anymore, right?
38:18
So if you had sleep apnea and all of a sudden you don't have
38:21
it with or without treatment, then it's a zero.
38:25
That's a no brainer. You shouldn't get anything for
38:28
it. Why would you get, why would you
38:30
get 10% for sleep apnea just because it somebody said, oh,
38:33
you got sleep apnea, Do you need a machine?
38:35
No, you don't need a machine. You don't need anything.
38:37
It goes away on its own or it's treatable with maybe a little
38:40
bit of loss of weight. We'll just say I'm just putting
38:44
that out there, right? A greater disability of 10%
38:47
shall be assigned for sleep apnea syndrome when treatment
38:50
yields incomplete relief. Incomplete relief.
38:54
So you go and you say you have sleep apnea because you're
38:59
overweight and you lose that weight and you still have sleep
39:04
apnea. They're going to give you 10%.
39:06
I think that's perfectly fair. I don't understand where the
39:08
problem is here. A grade of disability of 50%
39:12
shall be assigned for sleep apnea syndrome only if treatment
39:16
is either ineffective or the veteran is unable to use
39:19
prescribed treatment. Just throwing this out there
39:22
guys. Again, hold your hand like a
39:25
small child breakdown Barney style Sesame Street.
39:29
A grade of disability of 50% shall be assigned for sleep
39:33
apnea syndrome only if treatment is either ineffective or
39:36
veterans unable to use prescribed treatment.
39:39
So let's just say you're diagnosed with sleep apnea and
39:44
they go, here's AC PAP machine or a PAP machine, one of the
39:46
machines that makes you look like Darth Vader and you go I'm
39:48
claustrophobic. I can't freaking use that shit.
39:52
Well, you're 50% now, congratulations.
39:56
But if you use it and you're able to get some good sleep and
39:59
you start eating healthy and dieting and etcetera, etcetera,
40:03
because that's 'cause I'm just saying if that is your cause,
40:05
like sleep apnea can be caused by PTSD.
40:08
It can be caused by a million things, right?
40:09
So, so stress, I mean, right, I mean, just a lot of things,
40:14
right? Sleep apnea isn't just
40:15
overweight. I'm just picking on overweight
40:17
because I'm overweight. If you.
40:23
Are better. Why would you get paid?
40:28
I don't understand the problem with this.
40:29
This is only sleep apnea and this is what everybody's so
40:31
hoping about this taking care of veterans act.
40:33
Oh, it's unfair. It's unfair to future claimants.
40:36
It's unfair to future claimants. Why do you know the last time,
40:41
the last time that the VA did an adjustment to their ratings
40:49
right was 2017 and before that was 1940s.
40:56
So since 1940s they've always had the same ratings.
41:00
Don't you think that medical or medicine advanced since then?
41:05
I, I do right? Listen, if they had a chip that
41:09
they can implant my brain right now that says you no longer have
41:12
a TBIPTSD and don't suffer from this and this and this I'm good
41:17
I'm good with you taking my money away.
41:18
I'm absolutely 100% good with that.
41:22
If there is a pill, magic pill or magic drink that I could
41:25
drink that would take away all my ailments of not being able to
41:30
breathe, scarring of my lungs, cancer, the kidneys, whatever be
41:34
it, I would take that gladly. And you can take my money.
41:37
You can have the pill or the money.
41:39
I take the pill all day everyday and I guarantee you those
41:41
veterans that are out there would still, most veterans out
41:44
there would still do that. They would take that pill, that
41:46
magic pill, make it all go away and you can keep the money.
41:50
Absolutely. So here it is, the breakdown of
41:54
the Take Care of Veterans Act VFW, IVA and DAV are crying over
42:01
sleep apnea. Oh, but it won't wait.
42:03
Stand on, have a seat there young 1.
42:07
It gets way worse. So then we move on to tinnitus.
42:11
So those of you don't know what tinnitus is and, and by the way,
42:14
if you don't know what sleep apnea is, Google search, I'm not
42:16
going to break it down Barney style, but sleep apnea is just
42:18
sleep disturbances, tinnitus. If you don't know what tinnitus
42:23
is, that's a ringing in your ears.
42:25
If you don't know what that is, go sit in a quiet spot where you
42:28
don't hear anything, no traffic, no nothing.
42:30
Take a long drive out into the woods and just sit there for a
42:34
little bit. If you've ever had a hearing
42:36
test and you sat in that booth that was completely soundproof,
42:39
you had tinnitus. I don't I don't care who you
42:41
are. You've had some kind of
42:42
tinnitus. It's a ringing in the ears.
42:45
OK. And this is what they're saying
42:47
about tinnitus. And again, this is something
42:49
they were crying about. It says when it comes to
42:51
tinnitus ratings for tonight as the Secretary of the Army shall
42:53
revise and schedule of rating of disabilities and adopt, adopt
42:59
and apply under Section 1155 of Title 38.
43:02
Again, we read that except as provided in paragraph 2,
43:07
tinnitus may not be assigned as a separate compensable
43:14
disability rating. I agree with that totally.
43:17
I don't see anything wrong with that.
43:18
I have tinnitus. I don't see anything wrong with
43:20
that. So.
43:22
So I had tinnitus when I was 12 years old from listening to
43:25
music. Walkman came out, I used to and
43:27
then listen to my music loud so I had tinnitus.
43:30
What they're saying is that you have to have some kind of proof
43:33
that this was military related. I'm perfectly OK with that.
43:38
I, I don't, again, I don't understand what VFW and, and,
43:42
and, and DAV and Ivan, all these other people are crying about.
43:47
I, I, I totally, I totally agree with that.
43:51
And, and there's a lot of people out here.
43:52
Listen, I, I've, I've sat there and listened to veterans, I've
43:55
talked to veterans. I went out and walked the walk
43:57
with veterans. This is something that is like
43:59
there, it's, it's common sense. If you have tinnitus, you have
44:03
to prove that it came from the military.
44:05
Guess what? If you're a machinist, probably
44:07
have tinnitus, you're a combat engineer, probably have
44:10
tinnitus. Infantry men probably have
44:11
tinnitus. If you were sitting in the S1
44:14
giving out awards, probably don't have tinnitus.
44:17
Maybe you do from going to the range.
44:19
I'm just saying you have to prove it has to be documented
44:22
like everything else has to be documented.
44:24
This has not been changed since 2:00.
44:27
I'm sorry. The last time it was changed, I
44:28
think it was 1940. Something I read online was the
44:31
last time that sleep apnea and all this other stuff was looked
44:34
at, but this is something that came from the Joe Biden
44:38
presidency era. They said, hey, we need to
44:39
revisit this. 1.5 million people, I'm sorry, 1.5 million
44:46
veterans claim sleep apnea. 1.5 million.
44:51
Do you have any claim PTSD less than that?
44:56
I'm just saying I'm just putting that out there.
44:59
Just put that out there. So what they're saying is
45:01
tonight of has to be presumptive, has to have another
45:03
under underlining thing. It's not a it's not a disability
45:07
on its own. A grave disability of 10% shall
45:10
be assigned for tinnitus only when tinnitus is diagnosed as
45:13
associated with service connected as defined in section
45:16
one O 116 of Title 38. Everything has to fall under
45:20
there. I can't sit there and go and
45:22
say, hey, yeah, I was in a car accident when I was 13 and I got
45:29
a pin in my leg, but y'all let me in the Army.
45:31
And because that pin in my leg is bothering me now, is, is is
45:34
is is going to be service connected?
45:38
No, that's not how this works in general.
45:41
The revision to the schedule for rating disabilities adopted and
45:43
applied under section blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
45:45
protection of existing ratings. This is where the VFW and IVA
45:50
and all those groups really ticked me off because it says
45:52
here protection of existing ratings.
45:55
The revision to the schedule for rating disabilities may pursue
45:58
it to this section may not serve as the basis for reduction.
46:04
That means if you already have tinnitus, already have it in
46:06
your, in your, in your, in your VA rating disability or sleep
46:12
apnea, they cannot take it away. It says right here protection of
46:15
existing ratings, the revision to the schedule for the rating
46:18
disabilities made pursuant to this section may not may not
46:22
that means not not going to happen serve as the basis for
46:25
reducing, discontinuing or otherwise adversely affecting
46:29
compensation that was in effect on the day before the date of
46:33
the enactment of this Act. You guys, man, listen, I, I, I,
46:39
I am disappointed as a combat veteran.
46:42
I'm disappointed at you, Madam Commander of the VFW.
46:46
I'm disappointed at you at the DAV.
46:48
I'm disappointed at IVA and every other organization that
46:51
pinned veteran against veteran. Because these two stupid things
46:55
that you sit there and say it's taking money away from future
46:58
veterans. No, it's not.
47:01
How do you figure no more rating for PTSD that might be taking
47:07
money away from future veterans, No more raining for back, back
47:11
trouble, for knee, for eyes, for dislocated shoulders or carpal.
47:18
What do they call that? Arthritis, Degenerate arthritis
47:23
of the shoulder. Something that I'm seeing more
47:25
and more and more and, and, and, and diving into all this that
47:28
I'm seeing more and more at the VA that would be taking money
47:33
from future claims, something that's almost a guaranteed.
47:36
But tinnitus is not a guarantee. Sleep only, not a guarantee.
47:40
And stop using the VA compensation and pension as a
47:43
form of social welfare, for goodness sake.
47:47
That's not what it's meant to be.
47:50
That's not what it's meant to be.
47:51
Every Tom, Dick and Harry that gets out of the VA, out of the
47:53
military now is going to be 100 percent, 50% or something like
47:57
that. What what was going on?
48:00
If you never went in the military and you went to work
48:02
for the Police Department, would that fly carrying all that
48:08
bulletproof vests and the gun belt and all that firefighter,
48:11
firefighter has to wear all that gear, the bunk out gear and all
48:13
that stuff. Would that fly for them?
48:16
If they retire from the military or from the from the fire
48:19
department or, or the Police Department or whatever be it and
48:22
they get out? What about a doctor?
48:24
What about a doctor that walks all day on his feet or a nurse,
48:29
blood borne pathogens and all the stress that they see?
48:31
Do they have that opportunity? I'm just putting that out there.
48:37
Listen, it's it's pathetic. It really is.
48:39
It's gotten to be where I just don't even know what to say
48:42
anymore. I appreciate it, Charles, man, I
48:49
hope you're doing but better, buddy.
48:51
Charles just got out of surgery. So y'all keep him and his family
48:54
in your prayers. But yeah, it's this is just so
48:59
disheartening, the fact that that you as a as a organization
49:05
that's been around for years, the VFW as an organization
49:08
that's been around for years, the DAV and organization is
49:11
supposed to be helping veterans. You did a disservice.
49:15
You really did. IVA DAVVFW, you have pinned
49:20
veteran against veteran now, and I'm getting a lot of backlash.
49:24
Trust me. I'm I'm looking at my, my
49:26
comments and stuff like that. I'm not sharing with you.
49:27
It's like, oh, you're only saying that because the major,
49:30
major star act was it Yeah, yeah.
49:32
It, it, it, it would have directed.
49:33
It would have affected me directly.
49:35
Absolutely. But that's not the only reason
49:37
I'm talking about it. That's not the only reason I'm
49:41
talking about it. I cannot believe that you stood
49:43
there on Capitol Hill and cried and pinned a veteran against
49:47
veterans saying that the Take Care of Veterans Act was not
49:50
good because these two little things in there, it's featured
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claims for veterans. No, they're not.
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Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing is guaranteed.
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As a veteran, you being alive and coming home from combat, you
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should know that as the commander of the VFWI was a
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nurse that served in combat. Good.
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We're proud of you. We love our female veterans.
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We love our nurses. Has nothing to do with that.
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But you should know that even coming home is not guaranteed
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for a veteran. So why would you sit there and
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make this bogus thing and say that it's because of future
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claims? Future claims, you're taking the
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money away from future veterans. There's no money being taken
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away from future veterans. Listen, I am, I am so just over
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this whole thing with the Take Care of Veterans Act.
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There were so many good things to come out of that bill and now
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it's been tabled. I mean, listen, the the Major
50:54
Richard Starr act and Major Richard Starr in his self Google
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search it. That man was him and his wife
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both passed away. He he, he was the one that that
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that pushed this and you guys took that off the table.
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Love lives on act love lives on act you guys, you, you, you guys
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screw that up. Thanks, VFW.
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Thanks, DMV. Thanks, IVA.
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All because of your selfishness because you want to get your
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name out there, IVA, we haven't heard from you since since 2009,
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2010, bro, sit back. Take a freaking Rd.
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Seriously, I, I mean, it's, it's just aggravating.
51:32
Aggravating. We're going to take another real
51:34
quick break and I'm going to get something to drink because my
51:36
throat is sore is crazy. But we come back, we're going to
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talk a little bit more about taking care of Veterans Act and
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then I want to pinpoint a couple things with the VFWDAV and Ivan,
51:44
all those organizations and, and why were they pinning?
51:48
Why were they doing that? Why were they pinning veteran
51:50
against veteran? I mean, it just it makes no
51:52
sense. We'll be right back.
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I just got told that I need to adjust my camera during the
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break. Make sure top camera is touching
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your head. You have a lot of space.
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I like I like my space. I don't listen up H train.
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I don't like my body. My body's fat down here, but
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I'll adjust my camera. We're going to take a quick
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If you're joining me for the first time, we're talking about
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the take care of Veterans Act and what it means and how it was
54:26
hijacked by the VFW, IVA and DAV.
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And again, we'll be right back on this radio station.
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And we're back with veterans talk with your truly DJ Magic
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Mike. And we're talking about the
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Taking Care of Veterans Act that was just absolutely just
57:40
hijacked by the that sorry about that.
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The Taking Care of Veterans Act. It was hijacked by the VFW and
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the DAV and IVA and it was shelved.
57:56
It was basically shelved by the Speaker of the House, Mike
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Johnson. He was just like, look, there's
58:02
too much going on here. Listen, everybody is voting for
58:05
it, Everybody wants it, but there's too much too many
58:07
organizations getting involved here and too many people.
58:11
And and I guess it's written without understanding, I guess
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is, is what the what the problem is right to be safe.
58:19
So I ran it through Tratchy PT. So thanks H train.
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I'm trying to see. He says there's a lot of space,
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man. It's just I'm just dude, it's
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just it's hard. I don't know.
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Is that better? There we go.
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I hope that's better anyway. Yeah, it's it's just it's it's
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pretty difficult to really understand, I guess is the best
58:47
way to say it. But if I can break it down for
58:50
you guys, the main reasons was because of section one O 8 of
58:56
taking Care of Veterans Act, which was the tinnitus in the
58:58
sleep apnea. And we we went over that and
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it's just absolutely crazy what happened and what they're saying
59:03
about it. It doesn't matter.
59:05
Nothing is going to happen as far as veterans benefits for a
59:08
while. August recess, we have August
59:10
recess, which is true elections and then no one will care.
59:14
It's true because, because right now it's like all elections and
59:16
everything like that. Everybody's all yeah, take care
59:18
of veterans and everything. And then when the election dies,
59:20
obviously, you know, whatever, right?
59:24
Somebody wrote. I encourage veterans to stop all
59:26
this fighting amongst our ranks. Absolutely true.
59:29
I mean, this is you have the VFW against the American Legion 2
59:32
prestigious organizations have been around for years.
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Listen up if I can give you any advice, VFW, concentrate on all
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your posts that you're closing. I'm just saying concentrate on
59:45
everything that you're closing down left, right and center.
59:48
It seems like American Legion's doing something right, right.
59:50
They're in the community and everything like that.
59:52
You are a prestigious organization because you are
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veterans of foreign war. Not everybody can get into your
59:56
post. Not everybody can join your
59:58
organization. They have to have a combat
1:00:00
ribbon or some kind of a deployment ribbon, Armed Forces
1:00:03
Service Medal, whatever be it. In order to join your ranks.
1:00:05
American Legion just have to have served and honorably
1:00:08
discharged, that's all. But they seem to be doing
1:00:11
something right. Why would you go against another
1:00:14
organization like that? Sit down, break bread with them
1:00:17
and figure it out and say, hey, listen, we don't like this.
1:00:19
How about that? The DAV?
1:00:21
Listen, I'm disappointed. As a lifelong member of the DAV,
1:00:31
Disabled American Veterans, I'm, I'm, I'm just, I'm sad.
1:00:36
I'm sad. Go out there and get busy
1:00:40
helping each other, man. I couldn't say that better.
1:00:42
You know, as a member of both American Legion and DAV, why
1:00:45
does the Legion support this legislation while the DAV
1:00:48
opposes it? It's so true.
1:00:49
You have two great organs. The three great, 4 great.
1:00:52
All these organizations are great, but they're against each
1:00:54
other. Why?
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I, I, it makes no sense. It, it, I'm sorry.
1:01:00
DAV needs to provide the full set of facts in the future, not
1:01:03
just a portion of the facts, Right?
1:01:05
And that's so true. It's so true man, I mean these
1:01:08
people are all just commenting on it and stuff like that and
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the government can't figure out how to take care of veterans.
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Then maybe they should just stop having them fight.
1:01:18
Powerful Wounded Warrior missing a limb rated 30%.
1:01:21
Fat vet with snoring issues rated at 30%.
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Seems fair. I love that one.
1:01:26
That one right there. That post right there is coming
1:01:29
from Jonathan Michael Brouillette.
1:01:32
Wounded Warrior missing a limb rated at 30%.
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Absolutely true. I know a female who was an
1:01:37
amputee and she was rated at 30% for that amputation, but a fat
1:01:44
vet was rated at 50%. It's fair.
1:01:47
I love it that that is too funny.
1:01:49
That is too funny. It's pretty simple really.
1:01:52
As long as the Blue Falcons keep giving away our tax money to
1:01:56
foreign countries. Zero cuts.
1:01:58
I mean, it's so true, man. I mean, I can sit here all day
1:02:01
and everybody knows that I don't talk really about politics or
1:02:04
anything like that. But this is something that got
1:02:06
me going and I was just so ticked off, so angry at at
1:02:12
everything that just went on. So my producer is telling me
1:02:17
it's time. He wants me to shut up and just
1:02:19
go away. Be quiet into the weeds podcast.
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