Leave It To The Wise

By Semperpapa

Just wanted to share few wise words with everyone:

From Major William " Monsoon" Mimiaga USMC (RET)

Aloha All.........just my thoughts. For decades we have had hundreds of thousands of veterans who put in their health claims for VA benefits only to wait months and years for their claims to be resolved. Many receive outright rejections on their claims and then they have to resubmit their appeals which drag on for many more months or years....this frustration causes many worthy veterans in need of health care to just walk away and give up trying to receive what they have rightfully earned through their combat service and sacrifices. Clinton had 600,000 thousand veterans waiting for their claims, with Bush it rose to 800,000 and now with Obama, it has reached close to 1 million.....and yet we have a Congress and Senate who are so ready to spend billions on third world countries that endure storms and earthquakes so they can feel good all the while they are spending our tax dollars for their personal gratification. In addition, those Representatives now expect to run a national health care program when they have failed to run a VA system for decades......yea, I know, this Administration like all the others plans on hiring more service officers to speed up the process, this rhetoric now falls on deaf ears because it just will never happen. What this President as well as all the others have done is put a known named General at the head of the VA to appease us as if we are all just a bunch of idiots. We must realize that his appointee is just another yes man for his Administration and walks and tows the party line.
Why all this verbiage? How can and why do we take care of so many illegal's with free health care, stipends, housing and credit cards for food allowances as well as instate tuition......and turn our backs on our nation's greatest treasure....it's Veterans. How can the House and Senate vote in the affirmative to rebuild entire countries and not our VA Hospitals that are run down, full of mold and even our troops living and recovering in sub standard barracks. We have read about these scandals such as at Walter Reed and other VA hospitals that are in poor state of repairs and we have read of other closures of VA facilities.....yet we are off to rebuild other countries infrastructures while our system for taking care of our vets is broken.
God bless the legal immigrants, I too want to help but not the illegal's who broke our laws and now enjoy the benefits on the backs of our veterans. How can we sleep at night caring so much for those that have broken our laws and yet turn away from those that have served and sacrificed defending those laws. What can you not see in this picture.
"Tying a yellow ribbon on a tree does not advocate for veterans.....for the ribbon soon fades as does your memory."
Semper Fi Monsoon

And now some of my thoughts.

First and foremost I want to thank Maj. Mimiaga for allowing me to post his words. Monsoon, as I am privileged to call him, is a decorated Vietnam Veteran, very active in Veterans’ issues.
He is also one of those men I have grown to respect and have the fortune to call friend.

His wise words reflect much of my opinion surrounding the government intervention, better yet intrusion, in all issues regarding the American people. His assertion of doubts about the ability of the government to efficiently run any kind of program is at the base for my rejection of anything that is handled in Washington DC, including and especially health care.

In a past “debate” with a proponent of Obamacare, I brought up the total failure of the government to even address the needs of those Americans who should be the number one priority for the leadership. The Veterans.
The response from the ill informed young man was that, according to some obscure poll, the majority of Veterans are satisfied with the care they receive from the VA. Of course he could not produce proof of such poll, but I am sure that our current administration has been able to concoct something to that effect.
The real truth comes from people like Maj. Mimiaga, who, just like every other Veteran I know, believes that the benefits extended to Veterans by the VA are nowhere near enough in availability and quality.

Finally, I want to revert back to my absolute position that the only role our Government should have in our lives is the one afforded to it by the US Constitution, mainly provide for the safety and security of the American people, and that, in my opinion, includes insuring that those who have sacrificed so much by wearing the uniform of our Armed Forces are well taken care of, while on active duty and after they retire.

It is the least a grateful Nation can do.

Thank you Monsoon, for your service to our Nation and for granting me the privilege of being your friend.

Semper Fidelis.

And these are just my thoughts!