Contracts and Covenants are only as good as the honor of those that manage them.
When the citizen enters military service for his Nation, the terms of agreement are in compensation to honor the veteran with care of body for having bore the burden in suffering and sacrifice.
Veteran health care is not a benefit. It is a contractual obligation, a covenant, a pledge from those protected and receiving material gain due to the veteran’s service. The issue is honor quid pro quo.
Patriot, Potentate, Praetorian… herein lies the dilemma. The Potentate or conniving tyrant, uses the Patriot as a praetorian and through facilitating control by means of the treasury, establishes a bureaucracy to cheat the Patriot.
A Patriot is a citizen who lays life on the line for their neighbor sustaining a way of freedom, liberty and justice. A praetorian is a hired mercenary compensated with plunder.
The American culture of individual liberty and justice is established on biblical principles, drawing strength and success from understanding carried forward by Patriots since our inception some 240 years ago.
A weak and conniving potentate projects an image of righteousness and biblical responsibility with no intent of reciprocation; he deceives. World history is replete with betrayal of veteran by potentate through lie and bureaucratic subterfuge. Those that pledged to each other their lives, fortunes and sacred honor; establishing the American Nation, understood history all too well.
The eventual outcome for the potentate is always the same. His is the greed that represents the end of the cycle as he is devoured; eaten up and defecated by the praetorian employed. The hireling consumes the presupposed elite as they have not the courage to do their dirty work. Cowards always succumb to devils deployed and, bureaucrats are ground into dust.
Only an educated, responsible and accountable citizenry will turn the tide. Only when the citizenry understand and demand Patriots, not praetorian and potentate.
/s/ Frank W. Giroux
Kearny, AZ