The Debates

The debates are supposed to show the various stances of the individuals running for the US Presidency.

What I am starting to see, especially between Romney and Perry, is a bunch of bickering, finger pointing, and various jabs at things that have happened in their lives that they have either fixed or didn’t know that it needed fixing.

I tell you what needs fixing – The current philosophy of our Federal government. It needs to go back to the founders agreements that were made in “The Constitution of the United States of America, followed up by the “Bill of Rights.” That’s the only thing that can fix this mess that we are in.

Overhauling Social Security and Medicare / Medicare will also have to be done, whether we like it or not.

The overhaul of these things should not be done on the backs of the men and women that serve in our military. If the current President and Secretary of Defense think that continually changing the retirement options is the answer, then they are continuing to take our country down the wrong road.

There will be no one to stick around in the leadership positions of the armed forces. Twenty-years of military service is not the same as twenty-years, or even fifty-years, of civilian or federal government services. Military service takes a toll on ones’ body. That’s why a lot of the military retirees are disabled. Some a lot and some not so much, but disabled never the less.

Their service to this country takes them around the world to places that people in the US never hear about, or don’t even have a clue that they exists. The toll on them and their families is a heavy burden, that do willingly for thier fellow citizens. Wives that don’t know where their husbands went, or even when they will be back. They are just gone at a moment’s notice, some to return injured or in a body bag.

The current leadership (term used very loosely) of this nation doesn’t have a clue. The only appointee that I would even come close to trusting or believing  on this issue is General Petraeus, who currently is in charge of the CIA. He is the only one in this administration, that I can think of, that has any prolonged military experience.

Are they asking him, I doubt it.

They should be listening to the Association of the United States Army, The Disabled Veterans of America, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars for some guidance.

They don’t have to follow all the suggestions of these organizations, but on military retirement and their medical needs , THEY SHOULD!