Benefits crackdown ‘humiliates’ disabled Army war veterans

[MooseBreath]

I think you are overestimating the general public.

Go into any Supermarket during the day and see just how useless most of the able bodied are, I'd take a bloke out the army with half an arm over them everytime to do anything.

Agreed, to your average employer who values things like discipline, reliability and punctuality, being ex-army immediately gives you a huge advantage. No reason whatsoever for a one-armed former soldier to give up work forever.

To be honest I'm surprised any man who has survived a war would come back with anything like an entitlement complex anyway. You'd think they'd have too much self respect and dignity for all that gutter class hand out taking shit.

[DennisNedry]

Two important points on Army veterens:

- They chose to be in the army, so any injury however bad it may be is a risk they took when they joined.

- They aren't 'serving our country' unless they are older boys from the Falklands or Ireland or before. The Afghan/Iraq wars have no bearing on this country at all and are a massive waste of time, money and lives. So they aren't heroes any more so than policemen imo, especially if you compare them to WW2 vets, who really are heroes.

[Captain...]

I think you are overestimating the general public.

 

Go into any Supermarket during the day and see just how useless most of the able bodied are, I'd take a bloke out the army with half an arm over them everytime to do anything.

 

Probably be true, but then it depends on motivation, if you are talking a motivated ex soldier with one arm, over some of the feckless youth of today, if you are talking about a one armed soldier with post traumatic stress, then I'd probably take the feckless youth.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Two important points on Army veterens:

- They chose to be in the army, so any injury however bad it may be is a risk they took when they joined.

- They aren't 'serving our country' unless they are older boys from the Falklands or Ireland or before. The Afghan/Iraq wars have no bearing on this country at all and are a massive waste of time, money and lives. So they aren't heroes any more so than policemen imo, especially if you compare them to WW2 vets, who really are heroes.

 

I'm not at all pro-armed forces, but it's a job that people do and like many people in their work place, they don't chose where they get sent. You can't blame Private Jones for war in Afghanistan.

[Guest]

I'm not at all pro-armed forces, but it's a job that people do and like many people in their work place, they don't chose where they get sent. You can't blame Private Jones for war in Afghanistan.

 

true but we don't have to exalt him for it either. He's just doing a job probably because he couldn't get a different job.