A very old/good friend of mine named Jay told me a sad story, and I say that because
I don’t want you to think this is one of those my-neighbor’s-gardner’s-cousin’s-friend-knows-a-guy type of deals.
Jay is 53, his dad is 80 and in bad health. Jay’s Mom can’t give her husband the proper care he needs, so he has no choice but to live in a nursing home in rural Arkansas.
He was in the Air Force for 23 years – shouldn’t that count for something?
You’d think 23 years serving your country for minimum f-ing wage would get you
some retirement health care, and in this case he is getting it – but it comes with a catch:
Since the government is paying the $4,000 a month it takes to care for him, when his wife eventually dies, the government takes possession of their paid for home.
I told Jay I’d never heard of this before, and he said this was a new program those
back-stabbing “we love the troops” Republicans passed when they controlled everything.
I’ve known Jay 35 years, and talking to him yesterday was the first time I ever heard his voice crack with emotion. It’s not easy to watch the Bush bastards steal your family home.
Does anyone know about this?
What’s this “Screw the Troops” program called?
Bush keeps whining that he needs all these extra hundreds of billions “for the troops,”
but where’s that money going if not for their health care?
And which Bush crony oversees this “We Steal Your Assets” program?
This isn’t right – that house belongs to Jay and his brothers after his Mom dies,
but the theiving Bush bastards are going to steal their property and they have no choice.
Can we help my friend Jay in any way?
Who knows about this program?
Who wrote this “Screw the Troops” legislation?
Can we shed some light on this?
Are there any Democratic ex-soldiers who can help?
Why are our elected Democrats silent about this outrage?
If we get some grounded-in-fact info, maybe I could ask you to send some letters of outrage to your favorite web sites and columnists so maybe we can get the ball rolling to stop this outrage.
We’re the richest country in the world, (or we were before Bush raped our Treasury,)
but it’s wrong to steal a soldier’s house because he needed health care – don’t you agree?
So first, let’s look around and talk to our military friends get try to come up with some info and accumulate some links on this viscious “We Steal Your Assets” program?
Do today’s soldiers know that the Bush bastards will steal their assets, too?
If you know a military family, warn them that Bush is coming to steal your home.
Maybe your parents should put their house in YOUR NAME so when the Bush bastards
run an asset check they’ll find out the former soldier is techinically “without assets.”
Help bartcop.com alert the country about those billionaire Bush bastards stealing soldiers’ homes. I think it’s a fucking outrage and you should be angry, too.
I’m fairly active in vets affairs, and I’ve never heard anything like this, but nothing surprises me anymore.
Wisconsin had a similar system in the ‘way back’ when we still had welfare. If you were “on the dole” the County was technically giving you a loan. Then when you died, if you had any assets they went to repay the loan.
I’ll be sending a copy of this message to someone who knows for sure. I’ll get back to you when I find out.
Comment by John from Milwaukee — November 2, 2007 @ 4:11 pm