From Mlive.com:
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder took
questions from a friendly crowd Wednesday night at a town hall campaign
event at Noto’s restaurant in Grand Rapids.
It was the third stop on Snyder’s town hall tour. His campaign invited undecided voters but had the final say on the guest list. I am told 3 non union advocates for the veterans at theVeterans home in Grand Rapids, were on the invite list and attended but were told that the veterans issue is a social issue and that Snyder would not be addressing social issues. Also one of the Veterans from the home was there.
Such a comment makes me think that Snyder needs to take his head out. Every issue is a social issue. Funding for roads, schools, etc., are all social issues. Funding for our veterans and the administration that abuses them is a social issue.
3 times the Governor of Michigan was asked to meet with a small group of Veteran advocates and Veterans from the Grand Rapids home for Veterans and 3 times he has refused.
And while we find that talking to groups of people such as the event at Noto's restaurant and reading to kids at a Kentwood school is a good thing (also reported on Mlive.com), meeting with Veterans who vote, should not be over looked.
It is becoming clear, that problems at the Veterans home are not just limited to the local administration, but the causes of these problem lie with the Republican partys administration in Lansing and perhaps, directly to Governor Rick Snyder himself.
Recent attempts by public employees and officials of the government to silence the voices of the dissidents and advocates for the veterans, are starting to look like standard operating procedure for this administration.
Recently the Administration told one advocate, that they did not want politicians coming to the home to do politicking, yet let Republican Candidate for US Senate Terry Land come to the homes yearly carnival and do just that. Now who authorized that, the Homes administration or someone in Lansing?
Advocates are being threatened to keep their noses
out of the veterans affairs. It no longer matters that the veterans are
forced to go to the advocates as they are not getting answers or relief
from the VA directly. They have no choice but to go to a third party
and beg for help. It makes you wonder why the VA and the State of
Michigan doesn't want these advocates involved. Is it because the
advocacy might work to the advantage of the veteran. This makes this
writer wonder if all the State of Michigan and the VA facilities located
in this State are wanting is the unnecessary death of the veteran.
After all. A dead veteran can tell no tales.
Local news sources are refusing to cover any stories that question the administration or its policies at the home. Dissidents and Advocates who make comments on News websites are finding their accounts banned, canceled or their comments being moderated or blocked. Since when did Michigan become the 2nd North Korea?
Veterans at the home are afraid of speaking out because of established policies of targeting said veterans for removal from the home, either by means of discharge or by transfers.
And the home relies on Federal US tax dollars to operate. The State gets thousands of dollars for each veteran assigned to one of the nursing units, from the Federal government of from the veterans own insurances. Many are now saying that Rick Snyder balanced the states budget in part, on the backs of Veterans.
What used to be a healthy Dorm unit of 150 homeless and income less veterans, is now down to about 50, and most have some kind of monthly income of which the veteran is allowed to keep only 100 dollars per month for their own use. Many veterans who could benefit from being in the Dorm unit for a period of time are being denied admission.
As stated before, the Dorm unit costs per Veteran starts at 2100 a month for a 10x8 foot area for a bed, dresser and small table, in a room that holds 4, each separated only by a curtain. All other areas are "common areas" used by all veterans. They also have a 3x3.5x7 foot lockable closet. And a shared toilet in each room. At one time the Michigan Veterans Trust fund, paid for the veterans who had no income, but now the home is all but refusing admission to those who do not have an income.
The original reason for establishing the home was to give homeless civil war veterans a place to live.
By refusing to meet with Veterans and talk with them Rick Snyder is dishonoring those who put their lives on the line for this country. Without them, we would not be here today, enjoying rights and privileges that only the USA guarantees to its people.
And this is why many veterans have said they would rather live on the street than be forced to live in a place like the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans which has been turned into a prison for veterans without bars on the doors and windows. In many cases, prisoners in our state prisons get better treatment than the veterans at the Vets Home. Shame on you Michigan, Shame on you Rick Snyder.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Monday, October 6, 2014
State imposed Guardians ad/or Conservatives charge Veterans outrageous fees.
I have in my hands, PROOF of State appointed Guardians stripping veterans of their assets with outrageous charges. In this case the particular Guardian is Cynthia Thornbury. The very same State appointed guardian who stripped Richard of all of his assets that Richards wife could not protect from Thornbury's greedy hands. I won't even go into the criminal charges that Thornbury should be facing over her accessory to Richards early and untimely death.
Well this bill deals with someone else. And in the past I have told you the reader, about how the Veterans Home has the state impose a Conservator or Guardian on people. And then how these State Appointed people systematically strip the assets from their ward. I have told you the public, several times on this blog, about a number of veterans at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans who were being cheated by these State appointed people who are supposed to be looking out for the veterans, not stealing from them. And I have reported that many do this with the approval of the biggest crook of them all, State Employee David Murkowski, who works as a Judge in the State Family courts.
I am told that when Murkowski found out about this blog, he got angry and yelled in his court that hes trying to help veterans. Apparently this is what Murkowski calls helping veterans.
Lets look at the billing that Cynthia Thornbury gave just one veteran for one (1) months service:
Guardian Ad Litem Fee 595.00 (Ad litem (Latin: "for the suit")
Lawyer fees (names withheld) 988.00
US Postal Service 8.80
Court Appointed Atty Fee 115.50
Bond 462.00
Conservator fee 2997.41
(what this conservator fee is, I have no idea)
Total: 5167.61
This veterans VA benefits for the month were just under 10,000.00 and she just billed him for over half of that money.. I guess the home gets the other 4.850k for the care of the veteran, right?
And what was this suit for? The suit for imposing this conservator upon the veteran? So now the court appears to be forcing the veteran to pay for his own screwing over. (Financial rape by the system itself). Sure looks that way to me. And it is all LEGAL. Legalized theft. Started by the Veterans Home, in this case probably the so called Counselor by the name of Karen Fugi who seems to have a lot of veterans under her care, who have Thornbury imposed on them as either a Guardian or a Conservator.
THEN on another page I find even more billing! She charged him
Monthly service charge of 90 dollars a month for services rendered
for 5 months worth of services: 450.00
Other services and contacts 65.00
Attended court 1.5 hours 94.50
picked up bond 1.5 hours 94.50
Dropped off bond .50 no charge
met with ward 1.5 hours billed at 63 dollars an hour 94.50
Met with wards SW 1.hour 63.00
Attended court meeting for Conservatorship 1.5 hours 94.50
Met with Ward and others 1 hour 63.00
Met with bank to open up accounts 1 hour 63.00
Met with ward at VA 1 hour 63.00
Shopping for ward 2 hours no charge
Met with ward at VA 1 hour 63.00
Totals this is for 5 months 1216.38
This person gets 63 dollars an hour for visiting a veteran? LAWYERS don't get that much money an hour.
And this is not seen as theft?!!
And this woman charges 63 dollars for every veteran at the home that she visits. 63 dollars an hour.. my lord that is CEO pay for some major corporation, not some petty conservator.
To me, this document serves as proof that the Conservator/Guardian laws in Michigan need to be challenged..
What is worse, is if this Veteran challenges the state to impose this conservator upon him, the conservator has the legal right to take money from the veteran to pay for his/her (the conservators) legal fees and lawyers to defend against being removed.
In other words the veteran has to suffer thru getting screwed by having to pay for the conservators legal fees. This is insane.
In the case of Richard this same so called Conservator spent thousands of dollars of Richards money on attorney fees for a divorce that neither Richard nor his wife wanted. Yet Richard or his wife have no recourse to hold the crooked guardian accountable for it.
Richard had to pay even more attorney fees and other fees because he tried to get rid of the Guardian, and challenged the Guardian/conservator in Murkowski's court and again his money was paid to provide the Guardian with an attorney. Also his wife was threatened by Murkowski, and her lawyer sanctioned by him.
Richard could not use his own money for his own attorney! His wife had to provide that for him.
See the slavery here???
This is what these crooks can do to a Veteran, and its all "legal". I call it abuse.
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