Today on his blog, Fox's John Stossel considered whether veterans were freeloading on the government.

Stossel quoted from an email sent by a viewer of his recent “Freeloaders” segment who asked if Stossel and libertarians in general would consider him a “freeloader” for receiving government compensation due to his rating as a 100 percent disabled veteran.

Here is Stossel's reaction:

[I]f you are 100% disabled, I do not consider you a freeloader, I consider you: compensated.

Of course, the VA is another clumsy government bureaucracy, and I have little faith they make good judgments when deciding who needs help, and who freeloads.

Stossel did not make clear when veterans relying on the VA stop being compensated and start freeloading.