And if that scenario seems a little uncaring I recently had one poster tell me that my VA benefits were socialism. Some-how when I was drafted into the Corps and spent a year running and doing endless push-ups with heavy stuff on my back, etc, and then being sent to land were the locals shot at you for a $100 bucks a month; or the alternative was four years in prison, I just never saw anyone jump in front of my line...

They are socialism, as is the military itself. Who pays for it? The taxpayers do. Not the market. Any time people pool their money together in the form of taxes to pay for services that are broadly distributed by the government, they are practicing socialism. Our government, military, and your VA benefits are all socialist. Even private insurance has a basically socialist structure right up to the point where the people running the insurance companies skim huge profits off the money that would be better spent providing care.


Now since my youngest daughter just finished her BS in Accounting and her MBA in Finance, and my oldest is buying up forclosures in the Outer Banks, Richmond, and Winston-Salem, we share laughter over "Liars Loans" and our family motto is "Drive Them Into The Sea".

I'm having quite a lot of difficulty understanding why anyone would brag about this.