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MILITARY OFFICER'S BLOG DISSES VETERANS AND EARNED

BENEFITS -- Nameless, faceless, supposed officer writes

about "bloated veteran and military benefit programs"

and calls VFW "Veterans for Welfare."

One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that it brings us so much information, and anyone with a computer can take part in this exchange.

One of the bad things about the Internet is that anyone can write anything (correct or not) and do it anonymously, like the blog entry posted below.

It was written by someone who claims to be an active-duty military officer.  The person uses the name Publius.

Is this person an officer?  Is this person even military?  Or is this just another military-hating, veteran-hating blogger in disguise?  Or, even worse, a self-loathing military officer who can't come to terms with the concept of caring for his troops?

I have always believed in putting my name and face on everything I do on the Internet.  That's why you know who I am and what I look like.  I don't hide behind ancient pseudonyms.  You may not like everything I write, but at least you know who wrote it.  Not so with the blog below. 

So, (insert real name here), like a criminal trying to ditch an outstanding warrant, takes on a phony name, rants about "bloated veteran and military benefit programs" and expects us to believe.

In my four-plus years in the Regular U.S. Army, I served with the most exceptional officers.  They cared about their troops.  They respected veterans.

But, I get the feeling that if Publius had been a butter-bar in Vietnam, his career would have ended as a butter-bar in Vietnam.  Stuff happens...right?

So, Publius, (or whoever / whatever you are) you have our attention.  But, you don't have our respect.

NOTE TO READERS:  If you'd like to respond to the blog entry below, click here... http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/veterans-for-welfare/  , go to the bottom of the page, and have at it.

Blog entry here... http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/veterans-for-welfare/

Read it below:

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"Veterans for Welfare"

From the comments on the so called Webb GI Bill:

I am an active duty military officer with multiple Iraq deployments and continuing an active duty career.

It is time for veterans to be intellectually and philosophically honest and oppose this new brand of federal welfare sweeping through Congress in the name of patriotism and “serving those who have served” and all the other platitudes that are greasing the skids of the rapidly expanding welfare state. The left, intentionally or not, is scoring a huge government expansion win by targeting traditionally conservative, limited-government constituencies, with the federal largess.

When do the expansive benefits of the military become the modern equivalent of the Quartering Act of 1765? Perhaps it is time to take a liberal weapon — the expansive and malleable interpretation of the Constitution — and launch some Third Amendment challenges to the bloated veteran and military benefit programs out there.

As a mid-career junior officer, I was paid the taxable equivalent of more than $169,000 last year (about the same as a Congressman). Enlistment goals remain consistently met in excess of 100%. But we keep expanding pay and benefits and finance our bloated bureaucracy by borrowing from Red China.

I canceled my VFW lifetime membership, because I now see that organization is “Veterans For Welfare”.

Stop the expansion of the federal welfare state, stop the federal dollar domination of the academy that is fueling sky-rocketing tuitions.

Let me tell you a dirty little secret. This is note the “next greatest generation”. After years of warfare, wee are still barely scratching mere hours of World War II combat casualties.

Be honest. Starting with yourself.

- Publius, Washington D.C.

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posted by Larry Scott
Founder and Editor
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