please pass this along... Please copy and paste this, and email it to all your Representatives and Senators. Then share it on facebook to get the word out. Veterans put their lives on the line to support the people of this country, its time for the country to support its vets!! **************************************************************************************************************************** I am writing this letter because I am very concerned about the government shutdown and how it is affecting my family, not to mention all the other families of Veterans across America!! There are over 22 million vets in country, and that number is growing daily. Many of these Vets are disabled due to their military service and they depend on their disability compensation benefit to help pay for things such as a roofs over their familys heads, and food on their family’s table. Without this check, many of our nations heroes will not be able to pay the most essential of their bills. Most of them will not even be able to make ends meet should November compensation checks fail to be issued. You are putting these families in a very dire situations because you and the rest of the Representatives and Senators can not seem to work together towards the best interest of our country. I urge you to please draft and/or support a bill that ensures full funding of the VA and will insure the veterans who sacrificed for this country will get paid the benefits they earned, even if the shutdown continues! You were all able to do it for welfare recipients, and I ask you what has a welfare recipient done for our country that a vet didnt? It paints a very poor picture of all in office when Vets are forgotten in this manner. Please note that my family, as well as the rest of the veteran community will be watching and keeping track of how ALL our elected officials vote on veterans issues. And I promise that in the next election we will take your actions into consideration when we cast our ballots. You have been warned. We will vote accordingly, even if it’s just to throw you out. This government shutdown needs to end, and it needs to end now!!! I dont care how it started, but we the veterans implore you to put an end to it!! **************************************************************************************************************************** Find your Representatives here: house.gov/representatives/find/ Find your Senators here: senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Contact the House Veterans Affairs Committee(the House members who make most of the decisions regarding what happens with the VA) here: senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:00:01 +0000