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Military Veteran’s Who Abuse The System

Military Veteran’s Who Abuse The SBy Nona Nixon

I have became so frustrated with the system which advocates for military veterans. I continually work within the military veteran community only to view how many people who actually work within this system do not care about military veterans. One would think this is enough to become frustrated, but there is more. What’s even more frustrating is viewing the military veterans who abuse the very system which abuses them.

There are military veterans who abuse the system. This is performed with not caring how many other veterans truly need the aid as well as services provided, due to military veterans abusing the system, this creates a backlog which holds up aid to military veterans who are in dire need of help. What I speak of in this instance are military veterans who are constantly in and out of the drug and alcohol rehab programs. I do understand that people whether military veterans or other groups of people can suffer relapses, but when I continually view these particular veterans entering and exiting out of drug rehab sponsored by the “Veteran Affairs”, this informs me they are not serious about truly escaping drug and alcohol abuse, they are merely concerned with having a place to go as well as a roof over their head when they hit rock bottom.

This is of course compiled with “VA Employees” who do not genuinely care about aiding veterans and are merely there drawing a government paycheck as well as benefits. I feel that our country can not truly care about the veteran community until veterans as a whole start caring about themselves. I am not stating that the majority of veterans are lazy bums nor am I stating that majority wise they do not care, but there is that minority that screws everything up for the “good” ones. I feel military veterans are very moralistic, proud people, whether they are male or female. Most military veterans do not even want to utilize the “Veteran Affairs Medical Center”, for obvious reasons, but they do not have a choice due to high costs of insurance rates as well as many other expenses, basically veterans do what they have to do, in order to receive medical care. It’s the lowlife’s which consist in all groups of people who continually abuse the systems who should first and foremost be ashamed of themselves, but then again, when one is tweaked out on drugs or alcohol or both, caring is not a priority.

Something else that really makes me see “red”, is while these “bums” are blatantly abusing the system, they will be the first ones to stand on self-made soapboxes and scream “I”m a veteran and YOU owe me”! I have news for these bums, I personally do not owe them anything, for I have served my time, I feel that where our nation should be grateful and treat veterans better, one only deserves respect and honor from our civilian population only when we act in a way which deserves respect and honor. We veterans should hold ourselves to a higher standard, reason why? We have represented our country and to lower ourselves to demeaning behavior as well as becoming career criminals or drug addicts as well as abusers of alcohol is a disgrace to the service most speak so highly of. Do I not understand that life is cruel sometimes and people in general screw up? Of course this happens, but where is the line drawn on obtaining the knowledge that one has to straighten their lives out and stop believing that you are excused for this behavior on the sole excuse that you are a military veteran.

Our country does owe we veterans a lot. Do we get what we deserve? Of course not, this is even more the reason to not abuse the system. Veterans are dealing with a system that is seriously backlogged as well as uncaring, one should understand that the “Veteran Affairs” is not an advocacy group, they are a Federal Entity which has been deemed by “Congress” to oversee affairs for our military veterans, in fact, all funds allotted to the “Veteran Affairs” is channeled directly from Congress, therefore, veterans need to understand that sometimes particular monies are not available due to budget cuts, this should wake up all veterans in knowing that sometimes veterans do not get the help they need due to particular slots not being open in particular programs, which is due to veterans abusing the system.

I say we need to weed out these bums and start placing limitations on their many returns to our drug and alcohol rehab’s within the “Veteran Affairs Medical Centers”. When a veteran is discharged clean and sober, I feel that they should have to stay away for at least a year, as far as the drug/alcohol abuse is concerned, if they decide to get high or begin abusing alcohol once again, force them to go to the local rehab’s and forced them to pay out of their own pocket’s, this might be a wakeup call for these people.

I’m tired of viewing people who are not abuser’s of the system being turned away, merely because they do not know the ins/outs of the system. Let’s hope the “Veteran Affairs” wises up to this crisis soon, especially in knowing of the huge wave of veterans coming back from the current war, we have to make room for these kids coming back, they need our help, and I personally do not want to see them turned away because someone is spending their fifth stay in the drug/alcohol rehab center in two years, it’s not fair, it’s not sane. If you want to be a proud veteran, then lead the life where one can be proud of, do not scream everyone owes you, for our country has proved how they owe us nothing, even more importantly, life itself owes us nothing, but we on the otherhand, owe everything to life. I wish more veterans would contemplate the true meaning of honor and respect as well as pride, if they did, they would not be the bums which abuse the very system which abuses them.

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