Northern Michigan communities combat homelessness among veterans – Nonsense
With over 30,000 nonprofit veteran organizations in this country, why are there still homeless veterans on the street?
Then answer is simple, THERE ARE NOT HOARDS OF HOMELESS VETERANS ON THE STREETS OF AMERICA.
What veteran in this country does not understand they can walk into any VA if they are homeless and poof…they are homeless no more.
Gullible dogooders spending fortunes on faux homelessness to make themselves look like they care is not helping anyone.
Nothern Michigan is taking part in a nationwide program to end veteran homelessness.
It’s called Functional Zero and its goal is to find housing for every veteran in your area.
On Monday, the Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency celebrated zero homeless veterans in Wexford, Missaukee and Manistee counties.
Local veteran groups, community services and volunteers all take part in the Functional Zero program to find housing for all veterans.
One volunteer at the celebration calls the program life-changing.
“The network goes out and they hardcore are beatin’ feet on the streets, getting out there, they want to find somebody, if a veteran is homeless they want them to be aware that there is a safety network and that they are there to provide whatever needs that they can and they will get them engaged with those networks to bring everybody off the street,” said Karen Prieur.
Missaukee, Wexford and Manistee counties are some of the first areas to meet the benchmarks for Functional Zero in Michigan.
News flash, Missaukee, Wexford and Manistee not the first areas to meet any benchmark when it comes to veterans.
Being a Veteran that served this county does not mean you are damaged in some way, nor are you a victim of anything. Most veterans are proud Americans that spend more time and energy helping others than the average person.
Source: Northern Michigan communities combat homelessness among veterans
Category: Exploitation, Phony Vet Charities, Reality Check
The only homeless person I’ve seen around here is usually on the street corner north of the gun shop, right out in front of the parking lot for a CVS store where there is a ‘Help Wanted’ sign 10 feet away.
There are more veteran nonprofit organizations than there are homeless veterans.
Why is it that every “homeless veteran” with a cardboard sign (that I see, anyway…) has a $100+ Jansport backpack?
Mmm…
And a $7.00 latte from StarBux in their hand?
Smoking the American Spirit cigarettes at $10.00 a pack here in Texas…
Hell, some of the ones I drive by every day have cell phones.
Yep, and a few have cars parked nearby. One of our regulars stands on a corner by a bank, across the street from a Meijer’s store parking lot, where she parks her 2017 Chevrolet. Can’t be taking a bus, doncha know.
When it’s pointed out that everyone is hiring, she demonstrates her rather remarkable command of profanity.
Veterans are the most likely group of people to be homeless, raped, drug addicted and just all around debris. They need pity from society.
Roped into the siren song of military service, they have been used, abused and tossed out like dirty rags. Why don’t the Republicans pass legislation to open shelters for these victims?
I blame Bush.
If there are homeless veterans, it’s cause they don’t want the help.
When I was a cop in Hawaii, there were many efforts to get homeless into shelters. Many refused cause they didn’t want to follow the rules. Not saying any were vets, but that would be the main reason if there were.
Instead, they overran the beaches on the west side of Oahu, making them unusable for the tax-paying public.
I hear that Hawaii is starting to do something about it after the homeless started invading the beach parks by Waikiki. Gee, what a surprise!
When we visited my son who was stationed there, he took us somewhere early one morning. I noticed a police car parked in an elementary school parking lot, and two officers out on foot, escorting 10-15 people off the school grounds. I asked him what was up, his reply was that the PD sends the officers around every morning to run the homeless off the school grounds before the kids arrive for school. They also have a couple of laborers who arrive in a school district truck, to clean up the “deposits” those folks leave on the grounds.
Point of order, Dave. There are homeless veterans. I know a few. The thing is that they WANT to be homeless. They steadfastly refuse any offer of help and assistance. At least until it hits -20, then they want help for the night. The rest of the year? Get the fuck away from me.
To put a finer point on your point of order, Mason, I would ask an essential question:
Just what percentage of the homeless are veterans and is it a number disproportionate to the percentage of veterans in the general population?
I’d be willing to wager that veterans represent a lower percentage of the homeless population in spite of all the sensationalized media stories and the self-serving organizations, including the VA, that obtain increased funding by inflating the numbers.
That’s a good point. All subjective and circumstantial, but I would also posit that actual veterans are underrepresented among the overall homeless population.
If all these do-gooders really wanted to help, they’d deal with mental health. Every single homeless person I’ve ever dealt with had mental health and/or substance abuse issues.
Mason, how do you know they are veterans?
Did you see their DD214?
I have never seen a homeless dude claiming to be a veteran and being an actual veteran.
But I guess there can be exceptions.
I haven’t seen any, though.
Well I haven’t seen their DD-214, but I know we got them ambulance rides to the VA, they convalesced in the Veterans Home, and they are usually diverted to Veterans Courts. So I’m more than confident they are in fact vets.
What’s interesting, and goes along with everyone’s observations here, is that these homeless vets NEVER advertise it. Not even a baseball cap. So I do take those proclaiming to be vets with skepticism.
The counselor for the Austin VA Mindfulness Course for us Veterans agrees that most people that say they are Veterans and Homeless are probably the victims of their own stupidity and have bad paper that precludes them from accessing any VA programs.
One guy showed up at the VA asking for help, a real mess too, and answered “What’s that?” when asked about his DD-214…
The Austin PD escorted him out the door and off to the Seventh St Homeless shelter so he could live on the sidewalk with the rest of the urchins…
I have been convinced for years that beginning with my war in the 60’s, the leftist leadership saw this business of portraying veterans as homeless drug addicts was a way to damage the image of those who serve as well as diminishing the appeal of military service to patriotic young Americans. The overall purpose was to weaken the faith of America in its military.
As with so many other efforts by the left from that time, it is reasonable to assume that this campaign was the work of Soviet intelligence agencies, who sought to weaken America’s military effort in Southeast Asia. Led by CBS and Dan Rather, the media swallowed the lie whole-hog and eagerly became the yapping, useful idiots helping the Russians propagate this travesty.
Sadly, the American public sucked up the disinformation and once the Left saw that it worked, they kept the disinformation campaign going to this point, where we are today, with all these “Veterans” organizations–just more useful idiots, although some are merely self-enriching scam artists.
I would argue that closed, authoritarian societies like the Soviet union have an advantage in propaganda and manipulation over free societies like ours.
I think the answer to lefty propaganda is more freedom, to show them publicly for what they are.
But i agree with your point. Eternal vigilance.
I really should just create a charity. It seems like there’s two surefire get rich quick schemes the last 50-60 years; charities and elected office. Charities come with better tax breaks and far less scrutiny of your personal life.
Yep, I absolutely have had a lefty tell me ALL Viet Nam vets are crazy. She said she saw it on tv. I think she saw that Dan Rather BS on CBS. As I recall after it was proven to be false CBS news said they were standing by their story.
You said what I have witnessed over the past fifty years.
Khrushchev was prescient with his “we will bury you” rant. It has happened! It is here!
It’s like George Orwell didn’t know the half of it.
Waiting at a long traffic light at the end of an I-5 offramp, I noticed a young druggy derelict, barely out of his teens under the overpass searching through a stack of cardboard signs left by previous derelicts on earlier shifts.
He picked the “Homeless Veteran” sign as his money-maker of the day. I responded with a loud “Bull-excrement” as I passed by him.
As a side note, when I retired from the USPS, my coworkers presented me with a reflective cardboard sign reading:
“Jay Z and Beyonce’ had twins…I need money for a gift! Plz Help!” It’s in my car… just in case.
I happen to know that all homeless people have a left foot, barring any amputations.
Having a left foot is obviously the common denominator in homelessness.
We need to start an action group to combat having a left foot, and we will end homelessness.
Gimme yer left…two three four…
Everyone who has ever eaten bread has died or will die.
Let’s not even get started on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.
My “outside” opinion; people not connected with the military in some fashion have no idea about what the VA offers, or even how to determine if a homeless person is actually a veteran. Unfortunately, these days “people not connected” is most people. My contacts are casual, but I at least know that anyone younger than me is NOT a Vietnam vet! I’m not sure too many even think it through that far.
Hell, L, most of ’em can’t make change for a dollar on a 99 cent purchase, so how are they going to calculate that almost five decades have passed since Vietnam ended.
As far as that goes most of’em can’t tell you what a decade is or how many years are in one, all thanks to lefty teachers’ unions.
Pathetic…
“Helping homeless veterans” is much higher on the virtue signaling scale that just plain old “helping homeless people”. Kind of like a triple-word score in Scrabble.
Judging from what I’ve seen, that’s a good part of it, and among those older some sense of “making up” for the post-Vietnam attitude. The problem is I haven’t seen exactly what a great many of these groups actually do. I tend to stick to Soldier’s Angels.
Now, now, now, Dws. Y’all know that we are the exceptions to the rules. 96.69% of ALL Vets are baby drugging, home raping, womenless killing ne’r do wells that need to have our awareness raised. Get woke, be broke, hit the streets, beat feets, and have a toke. There are literally millions of us and every problem we have is caused by the brainwashing of the Strumtruppen mentality foisted upon us by the gestapo tactics of Drill Instructors. It’s not our fault….The military made me do it. I’ll just leave this here. /s/
We missed the boat on the free sh^t Army. Instead of being a deadbeat derelict, we made a career of serving our Country, or we went out, got a haircut, and got a job.
Like many of you, I never met a real, good paper, homeless Veteran. Met a lot of SV pussies on the side of the road and after berating their sorry asses, drove away in my paid for vehicle without giving them a cent.
Go sit on that bench, with the rest of Group W.
I hate people that trip all over themselves trying to virtue signal by whining about the plight of fucking hobos.
I agree there should be help for those addicted and the ones suffering from substance abuse.
The problem I see is that the average fucking hobo will gladly take a free meal and a cot, but they wont agree to treatment.
These are people that have managed to push away all their family members due to their behavior and addictions.
They are nothing more than urban campers who fill the streets with needles and human shit. They do this because they are treated with kid gloves instead of being forced to be responsible adults.