Save our Veterans!

Tens of thousands of American soldiers get injured every year. A great deal of injuries include major limb damage, and even amputation. In world war II, at least 15,000 veterans had to undergo these rigorous surgeries. In recent years, with the Iraq war, even more soldiers have had to go through battlefield amputations. Without prosthetics, many of these veterans would be left dealing with America’s lack of care towards accessible spaces. Both older and younger veterans. At your local grocery store, aisles could be too tight to fit a wheelchair. Restaurants would have automatic doors that barely open, if there’s any at all! Even ramps aren’t safe from neglect. These patriots who gave their legs and arms to help our country are left with barely anything, as our government is too busy pouring our hard earned money towards indoctrinating children with woke nonsense.

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY BUDGET 2023 – 2024

What you’re looking at is the budget proposal for the Council of Disability. The money spent here goes towards enacting policies and regulations towards disabled people. What does this have to do with accessibility you ask? These policies and regulations help keep public spaces accessible, and for them to only spend a meager 4 million dollars across the whole country is pathetic. The same amount of money used was to help fund a 3 week “culturally-responsive” computer coding program towards gender confused children, whatever the hell that means.

The point I’m trying to make is that the government simply doesn’t care about these disabled individuals. If they did, they’d be wiser with their spending habits. Too many officials are getting bonuses while leaving disabled veterans without care.

The main issue here? The ADA is just a law. You can make buildings “ADA compliant” but what does that exactly mean? We’re putting all of our goodwill towards these architects and contractors, and they spit in our faces cutting corners just to save money. This is discrimination. If we simply had a program that could, y’know, help fund these necessary features, then everyone would be happy. This is where the dreaded DEI argument arises. DOGE is destroying a program that benefits many of our American patriots. While the term “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” may sound nice, recently it’s become an excuse for the left to sneak in their absurd LGBTQ policies, and now everyone is suffering. Disabled people very much fit into DEI. Instead of gutting the entire program, our president could divert funding to actually helping people that need it. But alas, that’s not what the government thinks is useful. They think that pouring even MORE money into the military and space and flying cars is going to fix every problem in society.

 

 

What the hell are we going to do once inevitably more soldiers come home from deployment, stuck in a wheelchair, and have to deal with the hellscape that is the Department of Veteran Affairs? Disability claims go unanswered, walkways go unfixed, programs that help fund accessibility get cut and now they’re left having to deal with the aftermath. They are punished for serving our country.

 

There’s another argument that could be made here, why should we make places more accessible when we could just give everybody prosthetics? No more wheelchair ramps, and no more having to change everything. We simply cant. Hard stop there. Sure, it would be an easy solution. But think about our demographic for a second. Older folk may not like prosthetics, it’s a painful thing. They could also be at risk or be paralyzed below the waist. Keeping prosthetics clean is a whole other ballpark, it’s just a whole lot of upkeep. Younger veterans could wear prosthetics, they are in good shape, but the idea that simply fitting everybody into the same mold to work around an issue instead of just fixing it is a pipe dream.

 

I think it’s time that Trump takes a long hard look at what DOGE is really doing. Sure, DOGE will get rid of the woke left policies, families will be deported, money will start flowing in. But what about the people that are already here? In the long term, nothing is going to be changed until the elephant in the room is addressed. If DOGE really has cut over 60 billion in federal costs, then there’s no problem in giving a little money to help such a large demographic of his supporters. It’s clear that there’s no easy solution to implementing accessibility. You can’t just throw money at a problem and expect it to be fixed, you can’t fix a problem by firing and stamping out an entire group of people. The issue of disabled veterans being left in the dust has been stated time and time again across decades, and it’s time we do something about it.