Reinhold Sommerstedt
Re: A Non-Caring Nation Turns It's Back On Veterans..
Tue Jul 1 16:14:48 2003
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Subject: THERE IS NO PEACEFUL REMEDY: TRILLIONS OWED Re: A Non-Caring Nation Turns It's Back On Veterans........
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 09:58:59 -0700
From: Reinhold Sommerstedt wealthassure@earthlink.net


GOVERNMENT CANNOT PROVIDE ANYTHING TO THE PEOPLE.
GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY TAKE FROM THE PEOPLE.

The present circumstance concerning veteran medical care or any other cash requirement cannot be met by the central government that owes more than 66 TRILLION. (probably a great deal more) They cannot pay the enormous burden of care requested. These veterans will do no more for government so government is immune from their complaint. They must win the hearts and minds of the new (alien) generation. For this reason they must spend the few dollars they can steal on this prospect.

I know that you are not a whiner. But those who continue to ask government for reform and justice only exacerbate an impossible dilemma. This creates the illusion that there is a remedy. THERE IS NOT!

Whtehr military or civilian the promises of government were INVALID when they were proffered. That someone has been swindled is not new. ALL have been swindled. To continue to complain about this is detrimental toward solution. Others who are likewise deceived will become offended by your position and this segregates what must be joined. Like Taxpayers, the Veterans serve the government. One cannot expect justice form a tyrant! It is not a time for whining. That is OVER.

THE TIME HAS ARRIVED TO ACT. VETERANS MUST LEAD FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.

What the veterans and military must NOW do is MOTIVATE and ACTIVATE the MILITIA and REMOVE the CRIMINALS and establish a NEW GUARD for our security and that of our progeny. It is too late to repair this sick government. ALL REMEDIES EXCEPT REVOLUTION HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED.

ADVANCE! They will flee.


Reinhold Sommerstedt


On 7/1/03 8:28 AM, "BOBWORN@aol.com " wrote:

There is a Distinction between Statesman and Politician
Col. Robert Pappas, USMC, Ret.

On June 2nd, 2003 the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a
lower court ruling that certain Veterans are not entitled to lifetime
medical care for themselves and their families despite promises to that
effect which were made to them at the time of their enlistments. It was a
sad blow for those Veterans concerned, but especially to those who have for
a number of years worked tirelessly on their behalf. Colonel "Bud" Day and
his "Class Act" group have devoted enormous time, thought and energy to
achieve a just solution for millions of rapidly aging Veterans and this
writer applauds them.

The Executive Branch, through successive Democrat and Republican
Administrations, has opposed providing promised care, notwithstanding it was
that precise Branch, through it agents in the Armed Forces Recruiting
Services who proffered the promise. But in the political calculus, the cost
of care would cut into funds available for other health and welfare
programs, so in classic vote buying, Congress has avoided stepping up to the
promise proffered by the Executive in a perfectly Constitutional maneuver
that has avoided responsibility, and associated costs. Congress must
authorize the expenditure of funds for the promise made by the Executive,
and there are neither enough Veteran "block votes" nor Congressional
interest in being fair to those who wore the uniform during WWII and Korea,
to motivate them to do what is right over what is politically expedient. How
utterly disgusting, disingenuous and tragic!

But wait, when the pool of WWII and Korean War survivors is sufficiently
depleted, some self-righteous Congressman or woman will hold forth about how
a promise was made to those aging Veterans and he or she will piously intone
that the American people "demand" that they be cared for. In the meantime
1500 die every day, a number that will sharply increase in the months and
years ahead, and then drop off as those Veterans go to their permanent
reward. At the end of the "day," Congress will "throw a bone" to a pathetic
handful of Veteran survivors in a shameless self-aggrandizing charade of
political catharsis. No wonder those Veterans are angry, no wonder they feel
betrayed. They have plenty of reason to be bitter given that a number of US
Representatives, who have unlimited access to the best health care in the
world at Bethesda and Walter Reed, promise to ask retired military members
to help pick up the slack by dilution of available health care, but won't
vote to fund the promise.

>From the perspective of the enlistee, a military recruiter in uniform speaks
for the US Government. Enlistees do not know or care who is responsible for
what; they are too young and too naive. Although it is well know to all,
except enlistees, that recruiters have historically engaged in the Used Car
Sales technique called "puffery," to an enlistee, a recruiter's promise is
"gospel." To the enlistee, it's all "the Government," and that Government is
behaving more like a sleazy Used Car Dealer than as responsible elected
official. Their dirty little secret is that, as one government bureaucrat
told this writer in a similar instance, "just wait, the problem will soon go
away."

If the United States Government, in this instance, the Legislative and
Executive Branches, both of whom are dominated by Republicans, and this
writer is a Republican, will not underwrite a specific promise made to an
entire generation of Veterans, a promise that was well known within both
those Branches at the time, it's time to change the politicians in that
Government in favor statesmen.

Reparations were paid to the Japanese who were interred in camps, during WW
II; "Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action and Welfare" has been the single
largest reparations program in the history of the world and has lasted for
generations; the Congress recently funded fifteen billion dollars for AIDS
programs in Africa; they underwrite an entire nation subsequent to the
overthrow of its evil government; but the Congress won't keep a promise to
those who wore the uniform, fought and who bear the scars of their service
while serving the cause of freedom in WWII and Korea-they should be ashamed,
and Voters should get rid of them.

Semper Fidelis

Col. Robert Pappas, USMC, Ret

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