Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans,
The Los Angeles VA property already has been hijacked by non-Veterans and controlled by the hidden hand of the community’s wealth and power, including an obvious attempt to transfer VA medical services over to the private sector.
One thing has become very clear: We no longer need a Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Mere mention will have the non-Veteran ingrates and the wealthy robber barons jumping up and down with joy.
Not so fast. Here is a strong dose of reality. The VA needs to be merged into the Dept. of Defense.
Not a new concept. Former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson proposed this as a solution for the disgracefully failed VA system that protects career government employees at the expense of Veterans and their personal healthcare and needs.
Read Dr. Carson’s prescription for proper treatment of our U.S. military Veterans:
Read dailycaller.com reporter Luke Rosiak’s investigation into Congress’s proposal for proper treatment of our Veterans:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/15/congress-may-fix-veterans-affairs-by-merging-with-military/
Read the downside of handing Veterans’ healthcare over to the private sector, which is not the solution to VA’s problems. Written by Garry J. Augustine, a Vietnam Era combat-wounded Army veteran. Mr. Augustine is executive director of Disabled American Veterans’ Washington headquarters.
Turning the VA healthcare system into merely an insurance program would require shrinking or shutting down the nation’s largest, fully integrated healthcare system, leaving millions of veterans without access to VA’s specialized care.
Moreover, we need a Veterans Oversight Board with Veterans only investigating, advising and counseling on all Veterans’ needs, including providing permanent housing for disabled homeless Veterans.
We do not need a community board of non-Veterans such as the Brentwood Village Chamber of Commerce. It will “offer vets a job” in exchange for exclusive use of a mega-million dollar parcel of VA property illegally operated as a public commercial parking lot.
Nor should there be a non-Veteran chairman of the West Los Angeles Neighborhood Council who supports the illegal Los Angeles City public dog park on VA property — rent free — by declaring: “We’re looking for veterans to get the land they need, and at the same time expressing hope a way could be found to keep the park open and available to the community at large.”
In exchange for “sharing” this mega-million dollar VA parcel, he proposes that the city of Los Angeles “train and employ veterans, and generate income for the VA by charging fees.”
Enough of these offensive, disrespectful assaults on Veterans and the integrity of this sacred land deeded exclusively in their behalf.
What we need is an oversight board of hardliner Veteran advocates who put the best interests of Veterans first. They will demand the permanent maintaining of this land as a National Veterans Home. They will guarantee it will not be accessible for any non-Veteran special-interest entities.
Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans, this is an emergency call-to-action to stop this longstanding crime and corruption that puts the wealthy in control of these community puppets who are just following orders of the hidden hand.
It is time for Truth, Honesty and Patriotism to take a leadership role and demand the immediate firing of VA Secretary Robert A. McDonald and his “special assistant” Vincent Kane, and the immediate cancellation of the counterfeit “settlement agreement”/”master plan”/”community veterans engagement board,” and the immediate filing of a new lawsuit. This one would have real substance that permanently evicts these robber barons, including a federal grand jury investigation into all this organized crime that includes massive land-fraud and heinous crimes against homeless Veterans.
God Bless America and the Veterans Revolution!
Mr. Rosebrock, director of the Old Veterans Guard, may be contacted at rrosebrock1@aol.com