San Diego to Vets: NIMBY
Stars & Stripes reports that residents of San Diego like veterans, but not so much that they’ll tolerate a rehabilitation center in their neighborhood;
The proposed 40-bed center, with single rooms, would be intended for veterans who need a place to live for one to six months. The facility would also have in-house medical and psychiatric care.
Neighbors say they don’t want it, and they insist that they’re mostly against it for the vets’ own good.
“For the vets, I don’t think it’s a suitable place. They need wide open spaces. They shouldn’t be in a residential neighborhood,” said Janet Houts, whom the website described as “a longtime Old Town resident.”
Yeah, they need wide-open spaces like cattle, I suppose. Since San Diego is largely a military town, I wonder how they’d like it if the Marines and the Navy packed up for some “wide open spaces” and take their local jobs and their monthly paychecks with them?
“We have been called unpatriotic,” Houts said. “We’re anything but that. We have a VA facility down the street. We have a mental facility [on a nearby street].”
Then what’s one more veteran facility, nimnil?
Category: Veteran Health Care, Veterans Issues
Yeah god forbid a rehab center get built in among residential neighbors who might actually be grateful for their vets, and take pride in looking after them as good American neighbors do for each other.
Cant have that though, I guess.
I support the troops but, ………
I think it must’ve been people from LA that said this! No way anyone in my beloved home city is this fucking retarded!
And here I almost had my friends convinced that San Diego and orange county stand apart from the ass clown in LA SF and Sacramento
3# Hey Doc I don’t know about San Diego, but Orange county succumbed along time ago. It’s simply been subsumed by immigration like the rest of California, it isn’t part of the country anymore. The Reagan library, like Hadrian’s Wall, is a monument to a dead people.
Let me guess: Miss Houts is afraid that one of the vets in the complex will hear a backfiring truck and he’ll have a flashback that causes him to go on a killing spree.
I swear that I feel the need to physically correct “I support the troops, but…” kind of people.
Patriotism as long as it is comfortable and doesn’t require any personal discomfort nor sacrifice. Janet Houts, a true America patriot.
But what can we expect from a litigation lawyer?
I suspect that she is setting herself up to represent the neighborhood in a lawsuit against the city.
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