Dear Editor,
The United States of America has over 23 million veterans; 8.9 million veterans rely on the VA healthcare system for mental health and health care.
In Project 2025, “Chapter 20” has declared war on the Department of Veterans Affairs. All veterans’ benefits and financial stability will be impacted. Check your disability rating and see how a 10, 20, or 30% cut will affect you and your family.
All disability ratings will be reviewed using artificial intelligence. AI does not care for whom you vote. Its prime directive is to find hundreds of billions of dollars and cost savings to pay for a $5 trillion tax cut for billionaires’ incorporation between 2025 and 2032.
It happened to me in 1994. I was awarded 100% disability and in the same year, the VA cut my benefits to 50% and took their money back, which meant I would have to go years without a check. I spent 2 1/2 years of my life as a homeless veteran and could not vote.
I was at a VA hospital on Fort Bliss as the Flagman when a World War 2 veteran asked me for help. They had cut him from 100% disability after 18 years, to 70%. He had a compensation and pension hearing. He explains that his disability rating would be vested as “Permanent and Totally Disabled” if he had hit the 20-year benchmark.
How will AI impact your financial stability?
Military retirees receiving disability income will be penalized in addition to being taxed.
Well over five million veterans will have their service-connected disability rating reduced. The VA will no longer provide treatment for non-service-connected issues, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, etc.
Two million veterans without service-connected issues will be purged from the VA healthcare system onto Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance for their healthcare needs.
Over one million veterans are now receiving compensation under the PACK Act. AI will review their cases and more than likely reduce them. The PACK Act had taken over two decades since it was identified as a healthcare crisis for our nation’s veterans before Congress finally passed it.
The active-duty military will not be spared from Project 2025 and AI. They plan to eliminate Tricare to save $60 billion and force their families to find private health insurance.
We took an oath to defend the Constitution against all threats foreign and domestic. MAGA and their Project 2025 plan to use AI it is the greatest threat in our 248 years of history as a nation. It is our duty and civic responsibility to vote.
Donald Trump told the American people to elect him and. “you won’t have to vote again.” He only must be a dictator for one day. That is long enough to push the button on AI and declare himself king of the USA for life.
I strongly encourage all veterans, active-duty military personnel, and their families to act in their best interest. We have a new hope, Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz, to save America. Vote to elect Kamala Harris president of the United States of America.
Ted “the Flagman” Harris, Midway