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Wait a friggin’ minute — this morning I heard that Bernie Marcus, (co-founder of Home Depot founder of Marcus Institute,) has offered the Atlanta Sheperd Center, a hospital that specializes in spinal cord and brain injury, to treat any soldiers with spinal and brain injuries when the government won’t pick up the expenses.
While it is wonderful for someone to give this kind of free help to our returning injured military, it speaks absolutely disgusting of our own government. We can spend billions upon billions in Iraq and on stupid “pork” that our Congress people write into bills, but we don’t care enough about the people who have given their all to fight and protect us? What kind of government are we? What does that say about us as a society?
How can we deny portions of services for the very people who have sacrificed everything for the USA? I am outraged and intend to write my senators. How can a country like the United States be known as ignoring our heros? Despicable! I will also write a letter to Bernie Marcus, thanking him for his generousity, and while I’m at it, I will write one to our president saying that he sent them there in the first place under false pretenses and then denies our military quality care and benefits makes him look like a bigger fool than he already is.
Bush speaks about wanting a legacy and his immediate goal is the impossible task of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, why doesn’t he do something right for once and reform the services offered to our returning veterans? That would at least be a worthy cause and people might actually be able to take a little pride in something he could say he accomplished in office. No, not our President, he has his head in the clouds as usual. This is why we should make it mandatory that any of our Congressmen and women who have kids that are the age of consent serve in the military! then and only then, when their kids come back from missions wounded and are denied services will something happen to correct this oversight – they obviously don’t care about the rest of us…
P/S — 8 soldiers killed in Iraq today, injuries too, their families will be notified their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters have died nobley defending us. What hypocrisy when our own Pentagon will turn a blind eye on their long term medical needs –take a few minutes and write a letter of your own…
3 Comments
March 11, 2008 at 5:13 pm
It should be not only mandatory that the sons and daughters of our government officials serve in the military when we go to war—they should be leading the charge and point man on military patrols! Things would look a lot different if that were the case.
March 24, 2008 at 3:45 pm
thank you, dude
December 23, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Bernie Marcus said on December 19, 2008, that businessmen that do not send money to Norm Coleman and the republicans should be shot. this is a QUOTE!
If his party had not led us into this unnecessary war, there would not be these injured soldiers. If the republicans had not cut benefits to our soldiers, then there would be no need for marcus’s charity. However, he has made much more from the massive tax cuts than he is giving to the soldiers, so I don’t really see it as all that generous.
I was already boycotting Home Depot because of their treatment of a friend of mine when a pallet fell off an upper support and crushed her foot back in the early 90’s. All she wanted was her medical expenses paid and her lost wages (she worked on her feet.) Home Depot refused. So she had to hire an attorney. Home Depot had about a half a dozen attorneys at the trial and managed to pay her only part of her medical expenses, none of her lost pay and none of her attorney’s fees. It cost HD much more to defeat her than to pay her, but I can only think they were trying to set a precedent that would discourage others from trying to hold HD accountable for injuries suffered due to HD’s negligence.
That was almost 18 years ago, so I had stopped telling people to boycott Home Depot.
However, no I am once again telling everyone I can to boycott Home Depot.