Did You Serve in the Armed Forces?
Join with United Veterans to Stop Harassment of Veterans by the Veterans Administration
Veterans who gave some of the best years of their lives to defend our country should not be harassed by actions and negative decisions when they apply for health care at the Veterans Administration.
The only way to stop this harassment is for veterans to unite on a national basis and seek new legislation to govern the V.A. We ask all veterans to write their representatives in Congress to sponsor and support the following ammendments to the next FY V.A. budget:
1. No administrative or staff employee will be granted a pension unless they meet the same Means Standards that the V.A. has established for veterans, and be limited to the same dollar amounts as specified for veterans.
2. Administrative salaries shall not exceed the eqivalent of 1998 $50,000 level. Of the $43.2 billion FY 1999 budget proposed by the V.A., only $17.7 billion would go for V.A. health care. We need more health care and less administration.
3. Members of the military took care of our health care during our years of service, and are certainly qualified to provide the same care now. Therefore, any non-veteran administrator who refuses to work under the above regulations should be immediately replaced by a qualified veteran with preference given for war-time, overseas service. This will ensure a more realistic policy on service-connected benefit awards as decisions are made by veterans who experienced the conditions under which we served.
If the V.A. were doing its job, would we have thousands of sick, homeless veterans living on the streets of our country? Act now! Write to your Congressional represetatives. And please send a copy of your letter to me, William Irving (veteran, WW II, Europe), at williamirving@angelfire.com. Thank you.
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