Way back in the innards of our local newsrag, on page 37 or so, I found a story reporting that President Trump signed a bill that would lift the onerous restrictions on firing non-performers and ne’er-do-wells from the Veteran’s Administration. Hooray!
As a veteran, I applaud this bill and wonder why the mainstream news media is not making a bigger deal out of it. If this were something to benefit the immigrant communities in this country, they would make it front page news.
Just about anyone who is injured or sick can go to any emergency room and be treated without question. Not so with the VA. Veterans stand in line for weeks, months, and years to see a doctor, and when they do see a VA doctor, all he/she wants to do is give them pills. And it doesn’t even take a trip to the pharmacy; they’ll mail them to you, no questions asked. No wonder so many veterans are addicted. These are government doctors, and as anyone who has served in the military knows, land-bound, institutionalized VA hospital doctors are not the cream of the medical crop America has to offer.
If anyone in this country deserves top of the line, first class medical treatment, it is the veteran. Go visit one of the VA hospitals if you have the stomach for it. People who work there, assisting our heroes, are undermotivated in the least. These are products of our educational system, which has inflicted upon the world a legion of millennial dipshits, ill-prepared, ill-informed, ill-educated and, I’m certain, ill-conceived. Put a bunch of them together in front of computer monitors with no supervision or direction, and before you know it, the poop-slingers are in charge of the monkey house.
I saw a quote by Lt. Colonel George Goodson, USMC (Ret) which read: “A veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount up to and including his life. That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.”
The focus in this country has centered on the violent, loud and obnoxious minority groups who are terribly downtrodden and unfortunate, yet they show up at demonstrations with nice, new, professionally printed signs. These groups only want one thing from us: they want more, and they aren’t shy about demanding we give them more. They are the angry, the profane and the violent.
Decent people, and American veterans are clearly in that category, shun this nonsense in order to concentrate on what is important to their families, their jobs, their religious beliefs, and to their communities. Their values are the values that represent hardworking, patriotic Americans, and those are the values that unite us. Unfortunately, those values are in scarce supply in our liberal, sequestered palaces of higher learning known as the University, which does not teach American history. Instead, they create a narrative of biased history for the indoctrination of legions of mind-numbed, half-wit Mortimer Snerds who flock to our university campuses, eager to have their minds redirected, refreshed and revitalized. They come out of freshman orientation with that thousand yard stare, and that gaping mouth, and things only go downhill from there. Stepford wives? That concept has got nothing on our university system.
If these schools teach nothing else about American history, they should at least touch on the many personal sacrifices made by Americans who served their country. They are a big reason why this nation stretches from sea to shining sea. They helped to build the nation these snot-nosed little poindexters take for granted. And if anyone in our society deserves our attention and respect, it is the American veteran. I am a veteran. I never served in combat, thank God, but I think I can speak for all veterans when I say, if it comes down to either your attention or your respect, we’ll take the respect, thank you very much.