Agent Orange Presumptions In Jeopardy

[allan]

From: Colonel Dan <colonel-dan@sbcglobal.net> [Add to Address Book] To: Veteran Issues by Colonel Dan <VeteranIssues@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [VeteranIssues] Pass to your friends in OK! Agent Orange Presumptions In JeopardyDate: Jul 20, 2011 8:09 AM

Pass to your friends in OK..

Take action let your reps know..stop this BS

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From: Teresa Morris [mailto:tmorris@vfw.org]

Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:04 AM

To: Dan Cedusky

Subject: VFW Action Alert: Agent Orange Presumptions In Jeopardy

VFW Action Alert: Agent Orange Presumptions In Jeopardy

Take Action!

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is adamantly opposed to an amendment proposed by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to change the manner in which presumptive disabilities related to exposure to Agent Orange would be determined. The senator wants to require veterans to prove a positive connection between Agent Orange exposure and one or more of the 15 presumptive illnesses that the VA now recognizes. We cannot allow this amendment to pass.

Vietnam veterans have suffered long enough from the effects of exposure to Agent Orange. For decades we told the government that being exposed to Agent Orange made veterans sick. Now that the VA Secretary has determined he had the scientific evidence required to recognize the disabilities, we cannot allow a change in presumptive rules just because the government can't balance its own budget.

The cost of caring for our nation's veterans continues long after the last shots are fired. America and the United States Congress must live up to that obligation.

Please contact both your U.S. Senators today and tell them that Coburn Amendment #564 to H.R. 2055 is a deal breaker with America's veterans.

__._,_.___ "Keep on, Keepin' on"

Dan Cedusky, Champaign IL "Colonel Dan"

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[john999]

Coburn is a medical doctor. This does not stop him from trying to &^%$ a bunch of vets. Certain groups try and run these bills to cut back on certain vet benefits up the flag pole. They are testing resistence. If a budget cutter can screw a discrete group of old vets and get away with it that is one for the bean counters. I do think that when the wars in OIF/OEF end and there are no more "fallen heros" on the news the budget cutters will probably attack vets in some backdoor way. They lump us in with other entitlement seekers. In their hearts we are just one step up from welfare mothers. We can't just sit on our awards and think there will never be any attempts to means test us, or cut benefits. This is just my opinion which is no better than anyone else's.

[retiredat44]

It really bugs the cr** out of me, when some one takes a proposal from a Congressman that has about as much chance of even being brought to the house floor as I do of growing about 8 inches and being slim. This is awful rumors and fear mongering. When and if it does hit the floor, then we can fight like hell. There are way too many areas in the budget that we can cut before they even dream of touching us Vets. Saw in the paper yesterday that the National Institute of Health is doing a study on the size of Gay males' privates. Like I said there are a lot more places to cut (no pun intended).

Papa

naw,, cut those too... foreign aid bs, United Nation bs,,, dept. of education bs... illegals suck up money, the list goes on...

[broncovet]

Most Vets are concerned now about "Agent Green"...that is, r we gonna get paid August 1. This should be a "presumptive". While its probably a scare tactic by the president, apparently the possibility of America's AAA credit rating may be history. What a mess.