26. MILITARY PERSONNEL: First! Let me tell you Service Persons, our government will try to
screw you after you get out of the service,
if not before. You are just a number, cannon fodder as they use to
call it. Ask the man who has been there, talk to some of our present veterans,
and ask them how they have been treated when they have needed help.
I was listening on November 2, 2008, to the TV program “60 Minutes”
about our Veterans, Guard and/or Reserve military that are refused the right to
return to their jobs upon return from active service. This is so wrong, so
wrong that we must stop this, and yet not leave private or public business in
financial distress because we are calling these citizens to perform for our
military service. I can understand that business can’t afford to support
employees 100 % financially when called up to serve our military, yet our
military citizens also can’t afford to bear all the financial cost to serve our
nation in time of need.
I am distressed to hear that even the Veterans Administration refused
to reemploy a returning service person to the previous position, definitely
against the law, that ensures our service persons the ability to return to
civilian employment, as they were when they left to fulfill their military
obligation.
I’ve believed that we need to continue the civilian financial status of
our military force when they are called up for duty. Don’t give me this
nonsense that our service persons must endure financial loss to serve our
nation. I will assist businesses to afford to make sure our military are
treated fair, so that when serving our nation, they can maintain the support of
their families, so that businesses are not financially bankrupt by the needs of
employees called up to serve the military.
We need to support business, so they can afford to hire employees who
have a military obligation. We most certainly need to review that citizens are
refused employment because they may be called up to serve in time of need.
Now, service persons injured
in battle, and in the hospital, or in recovery are being sued because the
government overpaid them “Battle pay” when they were just no longer able to
serve, due to battle injuries, so the government wants the money back. Well in
the first place if that service person is laid up due to battle injuries they
deserve more pay, a great deal more.
Can you imagine what our government officials would want if
they were injured while serving in political office? We should have such
Justice!
Another crime against our service
persons, now the service is discharging our veterans who have some emotional
problems, and they are told, “You don’t deserve any benefits, your problems
were pre-existing, so no pay Joe, go home and shut up”.
Well I told you so, on TV
July 12th, 2007 I’m watching the discharge of a Veteran, who is told
he owes the service some $1500 before he will get his discharge papers. I don’t
know what for, but come on now, we are spending $32 million every day in Iraq,
and this man has given his time and emotions to wage this war, and our
government say’s PAY, or no go. Heartless.
Our Service Persons deserve extra consideration, and
compensation for the, in many cases permanent injuries, that will affect them
the rest of their life.
I will bring our entire service personnel home for good,
except in Germany, and Japan where we are somewhat still in charge as WW II
occupation troops. Not that we are actually in control of those nations.
I will reinstate “all” the wonderful “GI Bill of Rights” for our service personnel that our nation
developed at the end of WW II. Read about my plan for Military Income taxes
below in #27:
· I will place the “CARE”,
and future, of those who gave so honorable to fight for our nation “TOP PRIORITY”. Right now too many are told to go home, and
get over it, “Hey, quit whining, the
war is over”. “NO” more will this attitude take place. There are some brave
Americans who have pledged their lives to protect our nation, “then”, when
injured, or worse, totally disabled, our government totally ignores them. I
will give each retiring Service Person a Credit Card type ID, that will allow
them to go to any medical facility for help as soon as they are discharged, if
they feel they need medical attention of any kind. No waiting for any care, no qualifying needed, they didn’t have
to get authorization for Medical Care when they were in the service. Instant
Medical Care for those who were there for us, now it’s time for us to be here
for them. Many of our returning service persons have huge financial problems,
and our government really doesn’t care. We must help those who sacrificed to
serve this nation, and help them recover, and resume a decent life, with all
the medical care and appliances needed. The way we treated our returning
service persons from Vietnam was a disgrace.
· After WW II, Prisoners of War” returned from Japan, then tried
to sue the companies in Japan; Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, Nippon Steel, and
companies in Germany such as Krupp, and Benz, that had forced them to do slave
labor, the service men were told, Japan, and Germany are now our friends, so
you can’t sue them.
Our service men were not as
important as our enemy was. No more of that nonsense. I’m livid over this
treatment of our service personnel. I’m afraid more, and more service persons
returning from combat will find our government doesn’t care about their
disabilities, go home, and shut up. Not with me as President.
· VA Hospitals will get top funding. The best that our nation can
provide. Veteran housing for the injured or elderly service persons will also
be on the top of my list. How many of our service veterans really need
emotional help, and are totally ignored? Many of our Veterans have had
emotional problems their entire lives, as the results of what they endured in
combat. We have just ignored them, while they and their families have suffered,
in silence.
· Maybe I should move Congress and the Senate in to some of these
Veterans Hospitals, so these politicians can experience rats, and vermin in
their offices.
· Citizens have voted in
California to build, and staff Veterans homes, they have promised to do so in
Lancaster, CA for the last 12 years, know what? Well I found out the home is
almost finally finished, but instead of the so called 140 or 180 beds, I
understand it has only 65 beds, imagine 65 beds for Los Angeles County, CA with
an area population of at least 9.5 million.
·
I will aggressively enforce the civil rights
of women who join the services, and are accosted by servicemen, then told to
accept this as normal behavior, that macho men deserve to get away with this. This has been standard
procedure. No way anymore. Macho is no excuse, guys.