By
Attorney Rees Lloyd
March 18, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
It is a national disgrace that while the Ever-Expanding-Government in Washington, D.C., has built up the most enormous debt per capita in the history of the country, over 900,000 service-connected disability claims of veterans remain unprocessed by the Veterans Administration bureaucracy -- with an escalating number of veterans dying with their claims unprocessed. They die not knowing what will become of their families when they are gone.
Meanwhile, the National Government in the Era of Obama churns out billions for pet "social justice" [i.e., socialist] projects; or bankrupt and near bankrupt "green" energy fiascos like Solyndra; or the mammoth private-sector-job destroying government takeover of healthcare by Obamacare; or the myriad of duplicative failed "social justice" programs the Obama administration is spending money on. That is spending not like "drunken sailors," as that old slur goes, but like what they are -- "drunken Democrats," drunk on power, and Liberal Progressive Neo-Socialist Kool-Aid.
Here's an irony: While veterans disability claims remain unprocessed, all across the country, due to Obama's fiscally and medically care-less Obamacare, state, county, and city governments are retraining welfare bureaucracy employees to prepare for the influx of millions of new Medicaid applicants when Obamacare is fully implemented.
Many of these will be, of course, illegal aliens (the government doesn't ask and doesn't tell). Democrats are now breathing hard to "legalize" with the misnamed "comprehensive immigration reform" (sic), which is naught but amnesty in disguise, millions of illegal aliens who will be heading straight to the welfare offices. Indeed, Democrats are salivating at the prospect of all those millions of new Democrat Party government-dependents marching to the polls like lemmings, with food stamps in one hand and instructions how to vote the Democrat party line in the other. It is Mexican and other Latin patronismo come to America as the American culture is "transformed" by Obama as he promised.
It is estimated that near half of all the millions who will be added to the Medicaid roles will, of course, discover they are also "entitled" (sic) to Food Stamps; or, rather, entitled to Food Credit Cards so that they won't be embarrassed by not having a credit card as they market shoulder to shoulder with American taxpayers who actually pay for the food for themselves, their children, and the healthy-bodied foodstamp possessors, legal and illegal, in the same check-out line.
What is distinctive about these new illegal alien Entitlees is that , to a man and woman, they have never served a day in defense of the American people from whom they now are "entitled" to be fed, clothed, housed, and medically and dentally cared for, at Americans' expense, as if by "right." Social injustice in the name of "social justice."
The truth is obvious: Mexico does not owe Americans who illegally enter their country anything, not food stamps, not medical care, and most definitely not Mexican citizenship. Conversely, America does not owe Mexicans who illegally enter our country anything, not food stamps, not medical care, and most definitely not American citizenship.
An American who would deliberately break the laws to enter Mexico to suck off its economy or its welfare system, is not an "undocumented immigrant." He or she is an "illegal alien" -- "alien" being a legal term, not a racial slur-- and, to put it bluntly, he or she would be an illegal alien leech. So, too, the reality of illegal aliens is not changed by a change in the name that AP or other media put on them; the reality is only disguised.
However, Americans are admonished now to believe illegal aliens -- a description encoded in law -- are but "undocumented immigrants," and that that it is but "social justice" to provide them with all manner of welfare, food, clothes, housing, medical and dental care, and, of course, to respect their "right" to remain Mexican citizens, even if they receive the unearned gift of American citizenship. They will be enrollees in the American welfare state and the Democrat Party and anyone who objects is a racist.
The largest industry in America is now the government welfare industry in one form or another. The aim of education is now a government job, not the risks of free enterprise. This is the description of a third-world culture. The National Government and the president thereof, as in the Third World, is the great providing patron, who is to be approached with hat in one hand, the other hand out, all in an attitude of worshipful thanks to the great patron, provider through government to a nation of dependent adult children.
An example of this American cultural devolution was given recently by Jesse Jackson, the race-baiting shakedown-artist who adopted the title "Reverend" without bothering to attend seminary for more than a semester or be ordained (which is not to deter the media from addressing him as "Reverend" in doglike obedience, since Jesse is, after all, Black).
In a recent demagogic speech, that Jesse Jackson, addressing a large audience of government dependents, instructed them in condescending, soothing, reverential tones as if teaching an elementary life lesson to helpless children: "Let us all now give thanks to President Obama for providing all of this to us."
Americans used to give thanks to God for their food before meals, and many still do. In the "transformed" America of the Obama Era, Americans are being taught by Jesse Jackson and other race exploiting Democrats to give thanks not to God for their food, but to Obama for their food stamps.
There is, of course, nothing at all "new" about this: Dictators and would-be dictators, shrouding themselves with rhetoric of their good intentions and devotion to social justice, have from the beginning of time promised goodies from government and ended up as totalitarian monsters, masters of those who took the bribe of welfare for freedom.
Our own time is replete with examples of such self-proclaimed "socialists" become totalitarian monsters, including the "national socialist" variety like Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany, and "international socialists like Lenin and Stalin in the Soviet Union and Mao in Red China. Casting themselves as deliverers of the workers and poor from oppression by the greedy rich, those heroes of socialist social justice substituted government for God, promising utopias for the "working class" and abolition of poverty. They delivered instead totalitarian servitude to government and abolition of freedom.
So now comes Obama, Sol Alinsky-trained ("His rules are burned into my brain," Obama has said), self-proclaimed liberal "progressive." He is the direct political descendent of the arrogant not-so-closeted socialist Woodrow Wilson, a "progressive" president who openly declared the American Constitution to be outdated, no longer useful and in need of replacement; a document which must be interpreted as as a "living constitution" that can mean whatever liberals want it to mean in light of modern developments rather than the expression of enduring principles of freedom needed to sustain a republic that the Founding Fathers thought they created.
Thus, billions upon billions can be spent by Obama on various social and economic faddish follies and failed programs because they are made holy by intoning "social justice." This includes now providing de facto if not de jure all the rights of citizenship to millions of illegal aliens who knowingly broke American law to invade the country in order to suck off of it, without ever serving to defend it, and, truth be told, never dropping their allegiance to the country from whence they came: It is the flag of that country that they wave while demanding rights in this country; and it is to that country they will return by just tippy-toeing across the Rio Grande or hopping a fence if the welfare and "jobs Americans won't do" dry up.
Now, millions of them will be transformed from illegal to legal, enrolling in Medicaid, and picking up food stamps on the way to free medical care," while following race hustler Jesse Jackson's instruction: "Let us all give thanks to President Obama for providing all of this."
How nice. "Social justice." Millions of potential Democrat Party voters. What Democrat neo-socialist could ask for more?
But what about that near million disabled American veterans, who were rendered disabled in military service in defense of America, but whose disability claims the Obama regime just can't seem to be able to process despite the greatest expansion of government, government "stimulus" spending, and government debt in the history of the country.
The problem is not money -- Obama is spending it as fast as he can take it from the little more than half of the country that pays income taxes and give to the half that does not pay income taxes. Obama is also borrowing it from Communist China to such an extent that forty cents of every dollar spent is actually borrowed to China. He has made America the greatest debtor nation in the world--but can't seem to get around to getting processed the 900,000 backlogged disability claims of veterans at the VA.
Again, the problem isn't lack of funds--the problem is priorities. Veterans in general and veterans with service-connected disabilities in particular are at the low end of the Obamacrat priorities. Better a half-a-billion dollars on failed "green" follies like Solyndra or adding a million or more illegal aliens to Medicaid and free medical care than fulfilling the duty to act on almost a million backlogged disability claims of veterans.
For but one other example: Obama recently announced, with Croesus like disregard for the realities of disabled veterans with unprocessed claims and Americans without jobs, that Obama will "invest" (i.e., spend) $100,000,000 in taxpayer funds to have a new study of how the brain works. Perhaps the first brain to be studied should be his own.
After all, it is not rocket science to conclude that the over 900,000 unprocessed disability claims of veterans might well be processed if that $100-million was used to get done the duty to process those disability claims before those veterans die. How hard on the brain is that to figure out, even if that brain has been damaged by exposure to Sol Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" and the Black Liberation Theology of James Cone and socialist Rev. Jeremy Wright of "God D--- America" fame, in whose pews Obama was marinated in Wright's racist views for some twenty years.
It is unmistakably manifest: The Obama regime's failure to process the over 900,000 disability claims of veterans is not a matter of money. It is a matter, pure and simple, of Obama and Democrat Party priorities.
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I respectfully suggest that every veteran, every patriot in this country, should contact Congress, the Senate, and the White House to demand that before that $100-million is spent on yet another study of how the brain works, before another dollar is sent to totalitarian America-hating Islamic dictatorships from Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Somalia, before Obama spends another hour on Air Force One at $180,000 per hour to fly off to play golf or raise money for Democrats, before another dime is spent on illegal aliens, the priority should be to spend each of those dollars instead on ending the disgrace of over 900,000 veterans' disability claims going unprocessed, as many of those disabled veterans lay dying.
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Rees Lloyd, a one time ACLU staff attorney, is the co-founder and director of the Defense of Veterans Memorial Project of the American Legion Dept. of California, and a member of the Victoria Taft Blogforce.
A longtime civil rights attorney and veterans activist whose work has been honored by, among others, the California Senate and Assembly, and numerous civil rights, workers rights, and veterans rights organizations. He has testified as a constitutional expert at hearings before the U.S. House and Senate representing The American Legion.
He has been profiled, and his work featured, by such varied print media as the Los Angeles Times and American Legion Magazine, and such broadcast media as ABC's Nightline and 20/20, Fox News In The Morning, and, among others, by Hannity. His writings have appeared in a variety of national, regional, and local newspaper, magazine, and other publications. He is a frequent radio commentator, and a sought after speaker.*
[*For identification only. The views expressed here are solely Rees Lloyd's and not necessarily any person, entity or organization he may otherwise represent. ]
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