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A word from a Disabled Vet.

      This was sent in a e-mail. It is so good that I felt it needed to be posted .
        My name is d’Lynn. I’m a disabled Vietnam vet. I don’t look too
bad for a beat-up old fart, do I? And that’s my ride. She’s
looking pretty good looking also, especially when you consider that
she’ll turn twenty this summer. That’s right, it’s a 1990 with a
1990 sidecar. I can’t ride a solo bike, ergo the sidecar rig.
It’s my sole means of transportation – rain or shine, snow or wind,
and this summer also marks a milestone in both of our lives, as I
will finally be able to pay her off. Twenty years old? What? Why
did it take so long? You weren’t paying attention, were you? It’s
right at the beginning of this paragraph. I am a disabled vet,
which means I receive a veterans administration disability pension,
which also means “I’m broke!” Just one step ahead of being
homeless every month, and that’s not an idle statement or an”Oh,
whoa is me” dire complaint. There’s a point to this, so hang in
there a minute or two and read on.

There’s a 25-year-old illegal immigrant woman living in Florida,
with eight kids. Yes, eight “anchor babies” and she receives just
shy of $1,500 per month per kid, plus medical, plus food stamps.
Oh, wait. I’ve been informed that I shouldn’t call them Food
Stamps anymore. That’s not PC. It’s all called “Social
Assistance” now. You do the math on that yourself. I’d say that
she was schooled early in how to make it in the system.
Twenty-five years old, eight kids . . . . . yep, she started early.
You can whip out the calculator if you want, but this women who
never has paid a dime in taxes of any kind, (and still doesn’t –
she’s ‘illegal,’ remember?) is here in this country illegally. She
hasn’t paid one one cent in medical for all the “anchor babies,”
makes more in one month, legally, than I receive in over a year and
a half in disability payments and I can’t even get food stamps!
Oops, I mean “Social Assistance.”
Technically I am eligible for “Social Assistance.” I was told it
would be a walk through – a gimme – being disabled. No problem,
and in the very next breath I was also informed that under the law
the amount I received in “Social Assistance” would be deducted from
my disability pension.
Let’s say I take a great photograph. It was just luck, a one of a
kind accidental, in the right place at the right time shot. My
local newspaper offers me fifty bucks to use the photo in a
featured story. (I live in a small town and fifty bucks is all
they could afford.) I have to report that fifty dollars to the VA
as earned income, which will immediately be deducted from my next
month’s disability check. If I don’t report it I’m in violation of
federal law and technically they can stop my disability pension and
prosecute me under a federal felony. Pretty cool, eh? For fifty
bucks.
I see no point in dealing with two federal bureaucracies, so I
don’t bother. What’s the point?
She’s here illegally and with just one kid would make over twice
what I receive per month. She has eight and she’s not a stand-out
case. She’s not alone. That’s the way the system works. Millions
of illegal immigrants know this, know how the system works and know
how to use it. (Haven’t you seen the pamphlet? It’s handed out
all along our borders, “The Illegal Immigrants’ Guide to Keeping
America Just The Way It Is.”) and that’s just the way it works.
Did you know that the federal government provides a “refugee” in
this country with a monthly “stipend” of $1,890, plus $580 a month
in “Social Assistance?” That’s $2,470 a month, tax-free. That’s
two and a half times what I’m allowed to receive as a disabled vet.
And just what did they do to earn this? All you have to do is show
up on our collective doorstep, raise your right hand and swear that
you’re a refugee and, bingo, receive $30,000 a year, tax-free.
That’s more than someone making $15 an hour, and they have to pay
taxes to boot!

Now, in defense of the Veterans Administration, they are doing what
they can with what they’ve got. This is precious little compared
to what they should have to get the job done. At least this
country has a VA. It’s the Senate that keeps passing laws, rules
and guidelines, cutting their budget, denying requests for more
staff and computer systems to handle the massive work flow. Their
hands are tied by the very government that’s supposed to give them
what they need to get the job done, by the government you voted
into office. Don’t scream at the VA. I have. It’s misguided
anger.

The point to this “story?” Just why are you paying such high taxes
to support this incredibly screwed-up government? Why? And I’m
not proposing you stop paying your taxes. That’s wrong. There are
good programs and reasons to pay your taxes and support our
government. What am I proposing? It’s quite simple. Vote.
The government, our government, is broken and we as the voters
serve as the maintenance crew. We fix it . . . . . by voting.
If your state Senator has been in office more then two terms, vote
‘em out at the next election. If your state representative has
been in office more then two terms, vote ‘em out of office. We put
term limits on just about every publicly-elected official in the
country except the House and Senate. Why? Believe me, they know
this and love it! Ahhh – the power!
I don’t care how much you believe your Senator or Representative is
doing a good job. They’re not! Look at the government you have,
that we have. How can you state they are doing what you want as
the voter that put them there? How?
Vote them out of office. Do it.
Change the course of this country’s history by what you are granted
and guaranteed under the law. Vote! And if you have the guts, the
anger, the outrage, start a petition in your state for a state-wide
initiative to be placed on your next state ballot. Limiting the
terms of office for your state senators and state representatives
to your federal government to two terms.
The federal government will never pass such a law, but you can.
You can get it done. You can force it. You can make it a law.

This is the first step in “getting it right.” Just vote. It’s
simple. It’s easy.
This first step will send a very clear message. It’ll work. It’ill
put “us” back in control of “them.” As it should be. As it was
intended in the first place.

Are you an American? Born and raised? Then vote!