Letters: Disabled veterans and Jan. 6
Disabled veterans need fair compensation
I am asking Congress to compensate our grossly underpaid disabled veterans fairly this year. This must be corrected by appropriate legislation now.
In 2022 a totally disabled veteran with no dependents is compensated at the ridiculous rate of $39,984.72 dollars annually. The National Average Wage Index (NAWI) for 2020 was $55,628.60 dollars per annum and the median income for 2020 was $67,521.00. The per capita GDP in 2020 was $63,416.00 dollars, among the highest in the world. This low rate of compensation to disabled veterans is deliberate and cruel.
Disabled veterans are only compensated for projected lost wages not to include a ‘loss of quality of life’ payment which is now the norm in the court system involving personal injury cases. This is done specifically to keep taxes low on our Elites i.e. the Investor Class who pay next to nothing in federal taxes every year.
And there is a national security aspect to this travesty of justice.
Once our youth realize that serious injury or sickness received in the armed forces will mean a lifetime of near poverty due to artificially low compensation as disabled veterans the armed forces will collapse. In fact, this has already started to happen. Enlistments are growing precariously sparse.
A young person would have to be unbalanced to accept this social contract as reasonable between an enlistee and the government. No clear-thinking young person would agree to this lopsided arrangement.
This is a danger to all of us. Congress must end this injustice now.
— Ron Doughty, Newark
Watergate and Jan. 6: Parallels
For weeks now, I have been watching the Jan. 6 hearings regarding the attempted overthrow of our government and it reminds me of the Watergate hearings of 50 years ago. There are parallels between the two presidents — Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.
Both presidents were and are insecure, self-centered and believed the world revolves around them. What Nixon did was criminal and definitely the actions of Trump, before and after the Jan. 6 attempt to overthrow our government were criminal.
Any other person charged with a similar crime would have already been imprisoned. Trump and his minions actions on Jan. 6 leave a negative mark on our history.
The one reasonable solution is not to allow these treasonable offenses, ever again.
These actions should disqualify anyone from seeking the office of president. They must be held accountable.
A president is equal to everyone, no higher in stature and responsible for their own behavior.
— Al Liebeskind, Millsboro
This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Letters: Disabled veterans and Jan. 6
