[lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks

[B.]

So, you totally missed when I said I know a retired
USAF person who gets military disability (plus Social
Security) decades after his retirement, when he got
lung cancer, probably from his lifetime of smoking,
which had nothing to do with his military service,
which had ended 20 years prior?

How is that a disability "that's acquired through the
military"? This person has a "Disabled Veteran"
license plate, but his disability is not related to
his military service. he got his disability after
retiring from the military, but the military pays
"full" disability to him.

-B.

WD wrote:

"The state should provide generous benefits to all
people with disabilities. But I think they key
difference between a disability that's acquired
through bad luck and a disability that's acquired in
the military is that the state is more complicit in
the latter."