By Raymond Adkins, Whitesville, KY
When it comes to veterans men and women who sacrificed their lives for the country, President Bush and Congress seem to turn their back on them. If the administration and the Congress can allocate 40 billion dollars to fight the war on terrorism they could also provide the funding for our retired/disabled military.
For years the government has sent us our disability checks after taking it from our retirement checks. It is time for this practice to stop. They say that there is no money. If this is true then why did the Congress give themselves a 12,000 dollar pay raise back in October and why did they give the postal service billons in bail out money which is being used to pay their top executives millions in bonuses? I receive 475 dollars a month disability from the veterans administration. I spent 20 years in the service. If you are a Congressman, Senator or civil servant, i.e. irs, post office you draw both. Is this fair?