America, When Will You Stand Up for Veterans?

H/T Twana: http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2734278:Topic:349467&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

Military Retirees, under 65, probably have another job that can pay their Health Insurance Costs. We need to convince them to use that Insurance plan instead of the one they earned by 20+ years in the Military. Obama Administration. (paraphrased, they would never say it that clearly.)

This is what the Administration calls “not breaking faith” with Our Troops and Veterans. I had a rather heated discussion about this with a civilian friend, who happens to support Obama. She felt that the disgust I voiced with the Administration, and with those that continue to justify his slashes makes Veterans and Troops appear to be just a whiny special interest group. She didn’t understand how I could confuse her Support of the Troops, with annoyance that she attempted to justify the Administration’s calls for culling the force. And she typed the same lines the Obama Campaign has used to justify the cuts. The Proposals include:

Increasing and adding new enrollment fees for retirees (for Tricare)
Establishing a new enrollment fee for the TRICARE-‐for-‐Life program
Implementing additional increases in pharmacy co-‐pays
Obama proposals in January 2012, in the DoD “Defense Budget Priorities” previously proposed in the Obama Budget Proposal in September 2011 which was marketed as raising taxes on “the rich” while “raising revenue” to a greater extent from Military Retirees & Veterans.

So, how do I express myself better? How do I better explain why it is wrong for the American Government to break its contract with the Veterans that have protected this Nation? Why is it morally and legally wrong to charge Military Retirees for Health Care? Why is it the responsibility of the American People to stop this? Who can do that and How?

Voters can write their Congressmen and that is likely the only way this will be stopped. If the politicians in Washington continue to believe that the Electorate puts a low priority on this issue, then the Pelosi Democrats in the House, and the Reid Democrat dominated Senate will continue to blindly vote in support of the Administration cuts. And the Republicans in both houses will, otherwise, continue to allow it to happen. It is a sad fact that politicians are first and foremost concerned with their own re-elections, not in doing what is right, or is best for the Nation.

If politicians on both sides of the aisle don’t start seeing a stack of letters and emails on their desks, expressing support for a strong military, for honoring the contract the US Government made with its Troops, the politicians will look only to the polls that say its not important to voters. If however, the politicians believe your vote will be based, at least in part on how they deal with this, they will change how they deal with it. Sure, you can write a letter to the White House as well, but frankly, I don’t see it having any impact on its actions.