VetVoice and the homeless vet issue
Thank goodness that the Republicans took over the House last year or VetVoice’s dicksmith wouldn’t have anyone to blame for the report yesterday that number of homeless veterans are on the rise – well, actually the number has fallen by 55,000 recently, but the total number rose as the number of veterans increases since the beginning of the war.
I did a search of their archives and the only things I could find in regards to the homeless before January when this Republican class moved into the House, was praise for the Democrats raising spending on homeless vets and a guest piece by John Edwards promising to house the homeless.
Oh, there was piece listed written by Rick Duncan/Strandlof blaming “neocons” for the homeless vets, but of course, they removed all of his posts to disassociate themselves with him, but his posts still show up in the search function.
So overall, more homeless are off the streets since 2009 by more than a third, but the remainder are somehow the fault of Republicans in the House, not the Democrat in the White House and the Democrats running the Senate. Or the House Democrats who ran that joint from 2006 until 2010.
Oh, yeah, the number of homeless veterans is down from a peak of 400k to 131k in 2009 – was that the fault of Republicans, too? How about doing something instead of pointing fingers and ignoring statistics, there, dicksmith. You guys throw money at Harry Reid, a draft dodger by your own standards, why not throw it at homeless veterans instead.
And I’d like to see their accounting methods for determining who is a homeless veteran and who is not. If we’re busting them left and right here at TAH, is the VA even asking them if they’re really veterans?
Category: Veterans Issues, Veterans' Affairs Department
A couple of thoughts:
No one can force a private business owner to hire a veteran, or anyone else.
No one can force our federal government to hire a veteran – the toad in the road is OPM and its position descriptions, some of which are archaic (if you know what a punch card is, you may qualify).
What is the breakdown in homeless? Viet Nam? OIF/OEF? Desert Storm? If a vet has lost his or her job, can’t make the mortgage – then the vet is homeless, but not a derelict as dicksmith and society imply. If the vet can’t get a job because of the economy, the vet can be homeless, and not derelict. If unemployed, can’t meet the mortgage, or had to short sell a house, the veteran is locked out of the credit market and may not even qualify to rent a house – so the veteran is homeless, not derelict.
dicksmith is blowing smoke to see who inhales.