VETERANS: Tailoring the Dole

Rare is the able-bodied man among 22.6 million U.S. veterans who really believes that the public owes him a living for his war service, but the Government assures him one anyway.

If not already among the 2,100,000 drawing "disability compensation" for an in-service injury (75% noncombat), any man who wore the uniform 90 days can at 65 get a full federal pension ($78.75 to $135.45 a month) simply by showing 10% disability (virtually automatic at 65), and proving that his own annual income is less than $1,400 ($2,700 if he has dependents). A wife's income does not disqualify him, nor does...