Thread: Should the taxpayer fund housing for wounded Vets?

Yes

It takes real guts to leave a safe place like Australia and put your butt on the line for what you believe is right

Gazz

Originally Posted by KarlB

We most certainly should pay. I would add however, I don't see our enlisted service people as anything different from any other Commonwealth public servants. They are all serving the country. Be it a fisheries inspector, an Antarctic expeditioner or an office worker, if they are injured on the job then appropriate support should be given by their employer (ie the taxpayer).

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KarlB

Originally Posted by Ausfree

They might be serving the country, but they don't have bullets fired at them. Full support to all veterans.!!!!

I'll go along with that. Don't see any reason at all why "Commonwealth Public Servants" should be treated any different to any other employee of any employer in the country.

The services are a different case entirely - they knowingly and willingly put themselves in harm's way to protect the rest of us. A "Commonwealth Public Servant" expects to be placed at no greater risk than Joe Public - big difference I think.

I can however see a very good argument for adding Police Officers, Firefighters etc to service personnel for special consideration should they be injured in the line of duty. After all, they also knowingly and willingly put themselves in harms way to protect the rest of us.

Dont get me started,,,,,I will vomit if I think of the way soldiers I lead were treated after suffering severe physical injury.

In my opinion, and I have lots, just ask me, if you go on Operational Service, in a Combat Zone, you have voluntarily put your life on the line. You are giving/offering, literally, an arm and a leg, and everything else, for your country. So, it should be that when you get back, you dont pay personal tax, ever!, you dont pay for health, ever!, and if you are physically and mentally unable to look after your self, then someone bloody well looks after you! AND GODDAM PROPERLY! (yes, we could argue all day about what is combat, for how long, length of service, what service/corps qualify....whatever, but im not going to)

2% off the market interest rate or any low interest loan is not HELP. It is not respect!

And, Im not on a crusade against the public service, but ITS NOT THE SAME! A public servant goes to work believing, rightfully, that they are in a safe environment (presuming they are working within Australia. A soldier goes to work, knowing, particularly in todays current environment....that there are a million people out there that want him dead...preferably in a nasty gruesome newsworthy way.

Im fixing bayonets for anyone that wants to argue.

Courage!

Yes - they get **** pay to work in **** conditions and then their life is turned to ****...for what? Our freedoms and beliefs and our way of life which is simply put the best on the planet. We should do just the opposite of what the generation before me (in general) did to the Viet Vets on their return from war.

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PS. We can all find the dough to pay for it too

Yheap... without question, for those who have seen active service in conflict!!....absolutly

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Originally Posted by rockyroad

Definitely believe they should get the best health care.

They should also be given the prettiest nurses and doctors that speak english.

Unless they're women and want handsome nurses with a tight butt.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Unless their women and want handsome nurses with a tight butt.

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Glen

Agree they should. Unmarried mothers with lots of kids to different Joes get looked after, all they do for the country is "Breed for the Dole".

Diggers that go out and risk their lives for us contribute a lot more to society than just boosting the population.

The government Tells our Boys to go out and fight.
The government doesn't tell the breeders to stop, and is happy to fund their needs.

No, we owe them more than this.