Behind enemy lines in CA. Need to escape. Need help

[DSheetz]

Is that kind of like survivors guilt ?

 

[5.56×250]

All I can say is that there is a difference between using technology to augment our intake of information, and using technology to substitute the human experience. I think that is the defining attribute to the millennial divide. We are either in the matrix, or we aren't.
The ones that are plugged in are posting on facebook for likes and shares- and that will be the extent of their social interaction (which is one of a false ubiquity) The only reality they know is through a screen. The millennials who aren't plugged into the matrix are using this technological interface to learn about things like the fall of Rome, the American revolution, the science and nature of mankind as it relates to the world we live in-
I live by this philosophy here:

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain".
John Adams

The biggest issue I have with using the web to research history , or anything of importance in today's society is the people that decide what's at the TOP of the search page are the ones feeding all the new propaganda lies and misinformation. You have to already know the answer you seek and thumb down 3 pages to find something that resembled the true you already know. History BOOKS are where the things we were taught are still available. Internet crap spins the direction silicon valley deems necessary.

 

[DSheetz]

If it's on the internet it has to be true ! The books we learned from as youth and today are and were censored probably not as heavily as today or in a lot of other countries a search for the truth takes more effort then most want to put forth .

 

[5.56×250]

Is that kind of like survivors guilt ?

I think it's been handed down generation to generation. At one time it was the true that whites held minorities back, obviously. The problem is, that same sad truth is still taught generationally as a current truth. Its not . In fact, if you really want to put a fine point on it in today's society the opposite is closer to the truth. People of color have a better chance to get scholarships to college, or Grant's to start a business, or any number of other perks. Try to get disability as a white person and tell me how that goes for you. Why do you recon Elisabeth Warren tried to pass herself off as an American Indian? It dang sure wasn't so she could see what it was like to be down trodden!

 

[DSheetz]

I'M still trying to get VA benefits they told me if you make over 40,000.00 you don't qualify talk about how well socialism works how will it be this fall when I'm old enough to apply for medicare .

 

[5.56×250]

I'M still trying to get VA benefits they told me if you make over 40,000.00 you don't qualify talk about how well socialism works how will it be this fall when I'm old enough to apply for medicare .

I will pray for ya .

 

[DSheetz]

Thank You

 

[5.56×250]

I tried 4 yrs ago to get disability. I have 6 bad discs in my lower back , 3 bad discs in my neck, a wad of arthritis at the base of my skull that locks me down everytime the weather changes, and both my feet are numb to the point. I feel like I walk on my fists . Worked and paid into SSI my whole life from the time I quit school at 16 to get 2 jobs to help make ends meet for my family. Flat rejected through all appeals ! White privilege my ***!

 

[Deleted member 107796]

I'M still trying to get VA benefits they told me if you make over 40,000.00 you don't qualify talk about how well socialism works how will it be this fall when I'm old enough to apply for medicare .

The most important thing is to recognize your service but I need to ask, how much help are you getting from the private sector? My point is this, if you lived in Switzerland or several other countries, you'd be taken care of in a first class facility, period, all due to their socialized policies. Here in the US, we waste our tax base to the extent that socialized policies cannot work well. To blindly say that socialized policies do not work, or that it even equates to communism in any way, is incorrect and pure fallacy. I can easily say that, to be in the middle class in the US means you're going to be milked and it's been that way for at least 50 years. What has that got to do with socialism? Just my opinion.

On the few days here before Memorial Day, I'd like to challenge the post title... how can one be a fellow American, whose family members may have fought for our country's freedoms including yours, and still be "an enemy?" I never used to believe it but now it is clear to me... there are those that separate us by means of convoluted arguments, that somehow leave out everything we've all fought for, every bit if racial reconciliation we've made or any other common American trait that we all stand for. I believe that America is much bigger than our political or ideological differences and always has been.

 

[DSheetz]

I know how that is fussed at C-5 C-6 , L-4 L-5 C-2 C-3 BLOWN T-10 T-11 BLOWN L-5 S-1 BLOWN . I didn't want disability just medical assistance have coronary artery disease and COPD started working for a living at 13 in listed in the Navy at 18 learned a trade and worked at that for over 40 years I don't now or have I ever wanted a free ride from other tax payers

 

[5.56×250]

I asked for disability because my wife asked that I do so. The reason ? Our kids college money we had worked so hard to save was flowing out of our accounts just to live. We both worked hard and PAID INTO this security net. I , a grow man with as much pride as anyone on this sight, cried on the paper as I filled out my first request for disability . Now I feel like a fool for asking for help. I'm white, and therefore I'm the provider for this country. I should have known better than to ask for help, didnt want to anyway.
Just don't tell me that I'm previliged in someway , that is, other than being previliged to live in what still is the greatest country on the planet.

 

[DSheetz]

CO GUY thanks for your opinion I live in the United States of America where we are free to have and voice and an opinion . I have been to other countries in this world where that wasn't and still isn't the case . The similarities between the VA medical system and socialized medical systems is that in so many cases there is a lack of quality care and a long wait time for treatment , why do so many people come to the U.S.A and pay for medical care instead of using their free socialized medical systems ? People come to the United States from Canada to live and work as well as to seek medical treatments, and we allow them to , instead of standing and waiting for a slot to be treated for such as cancer . I didn't see Mick Jager going back to the U.K. to have heart surgery . I am glad and proud to have served in the military of the United States of America where we are all free to show our ***' and act a fool myself included . I have medical insurance and pay for it plus a deductible and yes if your are in the middle income bracket in the United States you will pay the lions share of the taxes as well as carry a lot of people that fell they are entitled to a free ride ,they think that their ancestors paid for them to . I have not forgotten what it was like in third world countries or in socialized as well as communist countries I perhaps have not been the world traveler that others have and probably not as educated as most but I have not lead a sheltered life either I did not set and stagnate as some have I try to stay abreast of current events

 

[GunHawk]

The most important thing is to recognize your service but I need to ask, how much help are you getting from the private sector? My point is this, if you lived in Switzerland or several other countries, you'd be taken care of in a first class facility, period, all due to their socialized policies. Here in the US, we waste our tax base to the extent that socialized policies cannot work well. To blindly say that socialized policies do not work, or that it even equates to communism in any way, is incorrect and pure fallacy. I can easily say that, to be in the middle class in the US means you're going to be milked and it's been that way for at least 50 years. What has that got to do with socialism? Just my opinion.

On the few days here before Memorial Day, I'd like to challenge the post title... how can one be a fellow American, whose family members may have fought for our country's freedoms including yours, and still be "an enemy?" I never used to believe it but now it is clear to me... there are those that separate us by means of convoluted arguments, that somehow leave out everything we've all fought for, every bit if racial reconciliation we've made or any other common American trait that we all stand for. I believe that America is much bigger than our political or ideological differences and always has been.

SENSE!

 

[Deleted member 48126]

I asked for disability because my wife asked that I do so. The reason ? Our kids college money we had worked so hard to save was flowing out of our accounts just to live. We both worked hard and PAID INTO this security net. I , a grow man with as much pride as anyone on this sight, cried on the paper as I filled out my first request for disability . Now I feel like a fool for asking for help. I'm white, and therefore I'm the provider for this country. I should have known better than to ask for help, didnt want to anyway.
Just don't tell me that I'm previliged in someway , that is, other than being previliged to live in what still is the greatest country on the planet.

Just keep reapplying for VA. There's no limit. Hire a lawyer too. They only charge you if they win your case. They take about 7% of your earnings. Sign up on VA.gov to start your claim. You need your military records from time of service and see private doctors to back up your claim. They need to say "this injury during the military manifested into what we see today." It has to be that blunt. Also, the salary cap thing is total BS. I make A LOT as an engineer in the private sector, and I still got rated at 80%.

I'm still reapplying since I have 3 compressed discs and spinal stenosis which the VA only rated it as "back strain." They never took MRIs or xrays. They just did a range of motion test. An overnight stay in the hospital from my back locking up made me reapply.

Also, who gives a crap what other people think. The VA doesn't judge you, Americans don't judge you, the politicians they elected created these programs. Use them.