Q: What promises did we make?
“ We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.2a6348af-1434-42f0-bbc0-af8ae726c390&hl=en 6/27/2009 10:45 AM.
Q: what is the G.I. Bill?
A: Safe Origins: The G.I. Bill (officially titled Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, P.L. 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m) was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as Gis) as well as one year of unemployment compensation. It also provided many different types of loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses. Since the original act, the term has come to include other veteran benefit programs created to assist veterans of subsequent wars as well as peacetime service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_Bill 6/27/2009 9:48 AM.
· Shocking Homelessness Rate
· Suicide Rate 120 kill themselves every week
- Shocking Unemployment Rate Older male veterans of previous wars are at greater risk for nonemployment than nonveterans? 75% percent of all eligible men served in World War II. ,http://74.125.155.132/custom?q=cache:2zQISghOfEQJ:www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2007/12/art3full.pdf+veterans&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=google-csbe 8/23/2009 2:24 PM.
More than 500,000 Homeless G.I.’s Today??
1981 the nation’s first law that addresses and combats the plague of chronic homelessness among veterans. The Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Assistance Act authorizes $1 billion in programs to help veterans find and retain jobs and provides them with housing, counseling, and medical care they need to rebuild their lives.
Our Heroes Are Tired of Feeling Bad
GI Suicides in 2008 Highest on Record
http://www.military.com/news/article/gi-suicides-in-2008-highest-on-record.html?col=1186032310810 8/23/2009 12:43 PM.
How Is The Current Obama Admin Responding?
1. Shocking Reacting To Suicides?
Pentagon downplays GI suicides
http://www.iacenter.org/military/gi_suicides020809/ 8/23/2009 12:52 PM.
2. Obama’s Shocking End-of-Life Care Guide for Veterans
Makes Heroes Feel Like Burdens When in Costly Treatment
This new official document encourages suicide not healing.
Shocking G.I. Unemployment Rates
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/may/wk5/art01.htm 8/23/2009 1:35 PM.
Older Male Veterans Of Previous Wars Are at Greater Risk
For Nonemployment Than Nonveterans?
http://74.125.155.132/custom?q=cache:2zQISghOfEQJ:www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2007/12/art3full.pdf+veterans&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=google-csbe 8/23/2009 2:24 PM.
In the years preceding the Vietnam era (1950 to 1966),54 percent of blacks were rejected
by the military because of low scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, while only 19 percent of the whites were rejected. The study revealed that white veterans who served in the Vietnam era had a greater relative risk of nonemployment as compared with similarly aged white nonveterans, The study found that Vietnam-era generation minority veterans had a greater prevalence of substance abuse disorders than nonveterans. The significant increase in the level of nonemployment among Vietnam-era veterans from 1999 to 2003
Q: as we study the way we as a nation are fulfilling promises to our war heroes how can we turn around our departure from their basic liberties past generations enjoyed?
A: Reagan asked in his day if the nation was already too far gone to save from Marxism. Although he made some inroads it was us who fell asleep in 2007 and didn’t vote. When we live in a democracy God commands us to make every vote count. Many of us stayed away because we were mad at this or that politician. But who would have thought 6 months into Obama’s first term he would be proudly doing away with capitalism and establishing Marxist tyranny?
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G.I.’s Shocking Failed Promises & Consequences
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