The Indecency of a Lie


Did you know that the EPA has designated about 164 different military installations that were discovered to have cancer causing agents mixed into its water supply?  What this means is many who severed on these installations and those living around it may have been exposed.   You have to go to http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/ff/nplstates2.htm and see if any base, on which you were stationed or resided around for a minimal of 30 days, appears.  For me personally, it was surprising and quite frightening to see that I had served or operated from 7 of them.  Two years ago in August  2011, President Obama signed legislation mandating VA health care for this and that’ s a great step but its only one step of the many more we need to take.  All veterans appreciate the love most Americans shows us but what we really need is to know that once the fight for freedom is over, we do not have to fight to survive.  Many leaders knew about this long before and many governmental personnel did nothing until forced.  Veterans placed on that uniform, stepped up to the plate and many died for this nation.  To now know that we were being poisoned by our own people can leave a very bitter taste in the mouth.

I heard Ted Cruz on Meet the Press, Sunday January 20, 2013; say that he just got back from Afghanistan. He said that he was approached by many military members, some grabbing him by the arm and begging him to do something about the debt that is bankrupting our country. As a former military member there are several things in this story that has the distinct odor of a lie; first of all when dignitaries travel only certain chosen individuals’ are allowed to be in their presences and no one would ever be allowed to touch one of them and secondly you are in a war zone, the possibility of being killed is very high at any time and the only thing you discuss from congress is the debt? Who’s fooling who? If he was approached by anyone serving in the military in a war zone and that individuals only thought and only concern was the deficit, some body please take his gun.

Lord only knows why, those who feel so at ease to look straight into the camera and lie directly to voters, think that this is the best way to be.  They need to learn that not all people are so stupid and ill-informed.  We will demand honesty and hold those who think we are “joe-spongeheads” where you can just say anything and we will soak it up.  We are intelligent human beings and we deserve better from those we send to represent us.  Time for those intelligent people to make their voices heard in every election and in every chamber.

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