Bronze Star. Purple Heart. And this is how these men are treated under Obama's increasingly Fascist oligarchy that used to be the United States of America.
Our Vietnam Vets are now turning the corner towards much older age, just as our Korean Vets now are and our ever few WW II have been.
They will have needs: hospice, care, and love.
The Obama "Gimme" crowd that never lifted a finger for this nation have won - they Take all they want under this Regime.
Here’s what’s wrong in all of this, SkyPilot. Obviously, the vets being forced out of retirement homes needs to be fixed. On the other hand, I can’t help but think that when I was a kid, my dad’s manufacturing job paid for the family. My mother was generally at home to raise us while dad worked third shift. Every now and then she’d take a part-time job to get extra cash for something they were wanting to buy, but for the most part it was one income, one child rearer, and a decent, but not extravagant, house.
Obama’s plans appeal to these minimum wage workers, and I’m positive they’re not starting wage teenagers, because they’re struggling to make ends meet on 7.50 an hour and both parents working. Many times each parent will have 2 part time jobs since they’re only for 20-25 hours a week so employers can afford having to pay big benefits.
That leaves us with families with both parents gone, no healthcare, and no one raising kids who are raising themselves.
Why?
Two things, I think:
1. The loss of well paying lower/middle middle class jobs.
2. A flooded job market. Women were not working in near the numbers when I was a kid. Then women doubled the work force, and now immigrants and illegal immigrants are increasing the work force, and supply/demand laws take over. If you have way too many workers, then competition drives wages down.
How do we fix it?
1. Absolutely bring an end to illegal immigration. It steals jobs and it drives down wages.
2. Take in zero legal immigrants during times of high real (U6) unemployment.
3. Encourage sacrifice for the sake of kids; that Moms raise kids and at a maximum take only one 20 hour or less part-time job, and only at times when kids are schooling or dads can be raising the kids.
4. Force the government to stop lying about both (1) real inflation that affects families, and (2) real unemployment stats. We have problems, so let’s be honest about them and quit playing political games.
5. Allow families to run home businesses that are not taxed until they reach some threshold profit. In short, encourage capitalism.
6. Get rid of any free trade agreement that isn’t provably reciprocal with America just as present in their markets as they are in ours.
7. Tariffs on countries that tariff us OR impede our goods reaching their markets.
8. Get rid of the income tax (which would change #5 a bit). Go straight sales tax so our people can decide for themselves how much tax they want to pay.