i am a soldier that was injuried during trainning to fight for our country and freedom . i came home and was working as a house painter , while the years past my injury became worse to the point that I can't work any more . with the cost of living so high how can they exspect some one to raise a family and take care of there selves when they get less than 40,000 dollars a year that is even with social security . compaired to a member of the government that gets way more than that , the lowest paid congressmen gets paid 160,000 plus . why did they vote for them to get a 17 % raise in pay but the disabled veterans didn't get one .since 1993 the biggest raise i ever got on my disablity was 5 % now that i am a 100% disabled unable to work i have strugled to just get by ,while these people get paid to run our country into the ground. i tell you the truth i would rather be working than going threw what i am going threw . I was a firefighter/emt for 28 years i wanted to keep being a person people could depend on when they needed help but i was forced into retirement from doing that , no i don't get a pension from the fire service because i was volunteer firefighter/emt . I can't golf , paint,walk far ,play ball with my son,do things with my church and help people that need help . why dose our country turn their backs on the disabled veterans.I pray for our country that they wake up and take care of the veterans if it wasn't for us veterans they wouldn't be freedom . thank you and may god bless our country David Hatter Sr. Bromley kentucky