Losing it Because of the Cost of Living

Well it looks like I am going to be off the net for a while come the twenty eighth of this month.

With the ever changing price of gas causing the up climbing price of food, and necessary supplies and electric and water cost going up. This is becoming inevitable to everyone I guess.

Those of use that are barely making it are going to be in a really sad state in coming moths if our government does not do something to stop it. With the banks starting to fail, and the dollar drooping more and more, millions will be homeless and living on the streets in all the cities, just like in the thirties.

Even if those that have a job are not going to be able to afford the things they need like electric and water and food and the rent. If the banks keep failing then everything else will fail. The jobs, the companies, and the stores. If this happens then there will be no way to get food, cloths, and the other things we must have to survive.

You remember the photos and the news films of Russia while they were in their depression, we help bailed them out of their depression by giving them food and cloths. There is no country rich enough to help us out of our depression and we will be on our own. Which means our depression will last longer than any and we will become a third world country.

We have seen those pictures of the third world countries and places that the people are living in shanty towns this is what is going to happen again to America again, just like the thirties.

I will be going to places like the library at the Ole Miss Campus, and to the local coffee shops to check my email and to keep this blog running. This seems to be the only way I have to go right now. there is nothing I can do right now to prevent this. This just happens to the best of us at times.

Something has to go to try and keep food in the house and gas in the car to keep my wife working and I have to keep the phone to stay in contact with my doctor and to order my meds. So this is what I chose to go right now, but things change and we maybe able to make some other changes and get the net back we will have to see.

Those of you that email me and stay in contact via email keep emailing me I will be checking them as I can get to town.

Back to the Veterans Adminstration Denial

Well I am writing a letter to my Congressman for my denial of my disability, this is not by choice a three page letter. I wish I could cut it down to two pages so it is shorter and to the point. I had to make it three pages to get to the full issue and quote two laws that I found, and did not know that it existed. I also fund under title 38 part II chapter 11 subchapter II several other laws that every veteran should be aware of and read. It is my belief that every veteran should be made aware of these laws which gives them rights and Legal Course of Action to stand aginst the Veterans Adminstration and bring about their claim to their favor.

the laws I used are laws USC title code 38 part 2 chapter 11 sub chapter II Sub Section 1117 and 1118 (laws are here if you wish to read them, http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode38/usc_sec_38_00001117----000-notes.html then to get to 1118 click on next at the bottom of the page) these two laws state that the Jackson MS Veterans Administration Claims Office should have never denied me for my claim if I am reading these two laws correctly. These laws state and I quote

From TITLE 38 > PART II > CHAPTER 11 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 1117

(a)

(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “qualifying chronic disability” means a chronic disability resulting from any of the
following (or any combination of any of the following):

(A) An undiagnosed illness.

(B) A medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness (such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and
irritable bowel syndrome) that is defined by a cluster of signs or symptoms.

(C) Any diagnosed illness that the Secretary determines in regulations prescribed under subsection (d) warrants a
presumption of service-connection.


(e) A disability for which compensation under this subchapter is payable shall be considered to be service connected for
purposes of all other laws of the United States.

(f) For purposes of this section, the term “Persian Gulf veteran” means a veteran who served on active duty in the Armed
Forces in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War.

(g) For purposes of this section, signs or symptoms that may be a manifestation of an undiagnosed illness or a chronic
multisymptom illness include the following:

(1) Fatigue.

(2) Unexplained rashes or other dermatological signs or symptoms.

(3) Headache.

(4) Muscle pain.

(5) Joint pain.

(6) Neurological signs and symptoms.

(7) Neuropsychological signs or symptoms.

(8) Signs or symptoms involving the upper or lower respiratory system.

(9) Sleep disturbances.

(10) Gastrointestinal signs or symptoms.

(11) Cardiovascular signs or symptoms.

(12) Abnormal weight loss.

(13) Menstrual disorders.

From TITLE 38 > PART II > CHAPTER 11 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 1118

(a)

(1) For purposes of section 1110 of this title, and subject to section 1113 of this title, each illness, if any, described in
paragraph (2) shall be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by service referred to in that paragraph,
notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such illness during the period of such service.

(2) An illness referred to in paragraph (1) is any diagnosed or undiagnosed illness that—

(A) the Secretary determines in regulations prescribed under this section to warrant a presumption of service
connection by reason of having a positive association with exposure to a biological, chemical, or other toxic agent,
environmental or wartime hazard, or preventive medicine or vaccine known or presumed to be associated with service
in the Armed Forces in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War; and

(B) becomes manifest within the period, if any, prescribed in such regulations in a veteran who served on active duty in
that theater of operations during that war and by reason of such service was exposed to such agent, hazard, or
medicine or vaccine.

(3) For purposes of this subsection, a veteran who served on active duty in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during
the Persian Gulf War and has an illness described in paragraph (2) shall be presumed to have been exposed by reason of
such service to the agent, hazard, or medicine or vaccine associated with the illness in the regulations prescribed under
this section unless there is conclusive evidence to establish that the veteran was not exposed to the agent, hazard, or
medicine or vaccine by reason of such service.

it is best for me explain best by copying and paste the sections of these laws. Then you see and understand where I am coming from with these laws. there is another law that states that will have to go back to the date of discharge no my discharge form (my DD214) that law is

TITLE 38 > PART II > CHAPTER 11 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 1110

§ 1110. Basic entitlement

For disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, or for aggravation of a preexisting
injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, in the active military, naval, or air service, during a period of war, the
United States will pay to any veteran thus disabled and who was discharged or released under conditions other than
dishonorable from the period of service in which said injury or disease was incurred, or preexisting injury or disease was
aggravated, compensation as provided in this subchapter, but no compensation shall be paid if the disability is a result of the
veteran’s own willful misconduct or abuse of alcohol or drugs.

So as you can see these laws help the Veteran in a case like mine or if any other Veteran is reading this and needs to get access to these law you can go to http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode38/usc_sup_01_38.html and start here and click on the Part I -VI that they need to help them,

So now back to the letter I am asing my congressman to step in as a Congressman Of the State of Mississippi and assist me in getting my disability, and I am asking him to do a full congressainal investagation of this office. This office needs a serious looking in to on how they are doing the things they are doing.

I will let you know the out come of the letter and I will post my letter at that time I want to be fair and let my Congressman have a chance to respond to my letter, and I will also post his responce too.

If any of you have any suggestions that may help or know if any other information that may help please coment in the coments sections.