It’s Time to Stop Giving Veterans Lip Service
If you think the U.S.
government is too impoverished to give veterans the best care in the world,
think again. America’s real problem is its eagerness to spend way more money
taking people down, than lifting them up.
In this year’s $1.11 trillion discretionary budget, 54
percent was spent on making war, while only 6 percent went toward veteran’s
benefits.
It’s not hard to figure out why.
One generates huge profits for
corporations that make weapons, and the other doesn’t.
However, the unspoken issue has as much to do
with political corruption, as it does with the failure of true capitalism.
Despite the illusion that big American corporations are
the epitome of capitalism, many are heavily dependent on government assistance,
contracts, tax breaks, and special rules in order to make money and stay in
business.
For proof of just how much government help these
so-called capitalists need, one needn’t look any further than the military
contractors and other lobbyists that spend billions to create siphons between
taxpayer money and the lawmakers who steer it.
Add that to the top spending lobbying groups, and it’s pretty easy to see why veterans aren’t the only
Americans being conned by phony conservative budget hawks.
No matter what you may have heard on the 2016
campaign trail, our military is NOT a disastrous, depleted mess that needs a
massive increase in taxpayer spending to resuscitate it.
The chart above is worth 598.5 billion words, or in this case
dollars.
American veterans should not have to rely on
outside groups to give them what they need.
Instead, the politicians who sent
them to war simply need to get their priorities straight and stop lying about
how America has no money.
The discretionary budget is about priorities and choices, which
is why elections matter, and people can’t go to sleep between them.
Now, more than ever, there is another war brewing. This
one is between the American people and the politicians who are certain to
ignore them — unless they’re ready to use their loudest voice to fight for an
America that puts its people before corporate welfare and its most deadly sin.
Tell Congress what you think about what they’re
doing to your country. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121
Maryann Tobin is
the author of “Afterlife: The Journey Of A Dog’s Spirit” This heartwarming story is told through the eyes of an
animal spirit that has been sent back to earth in the body of a small dog. His
mission is to help a young woman discover that their destinies are connected to
the powers of the Spirit World more than either of them ever imagined. If
you’ve ever shared your life with a dog or any other pet, you will never look
at them the same way again after reading this book. It’s available
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