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‘Get Me Off the Street’
Nearly half of the homeless vets are from the Vietnam era. Eighty percent of them have substance abuse problems.
45 percent of them are mentally ill and unlikely to get off the streets without treatment.
The Veterans Administration and its network of local government and non-profit organizations can only come up with 100,000 beds each night, enough for only one out of three.
The shortfall is likely to expand as financially strapped municipalities continue to cut public health and housing projects. And a whole new generation of combat veterans is about to hit the system.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=247816&page=2
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I am not even touching on the vet who suffers from PTSD or the wife of a vet who was exposed to depleted uranium who gave birth to a deformed child as the result. I am not focusing on the homicides and the suicides of the Iraqi vet.
My post’s aim is to point out the current 300k homeless vets, beds for 100k and the remaining 200k sleep in the cold, and its hopelessness. That figure will quadruple one the dust settles over the Middle East.
Still these figures are only the tip of the iceberg.
Im not knocking your efforts but they do not even scratch the surface. In spite of this , do not give up please. At the exception of several individuals’ efforts, America does not take care of her Vets.
It is nothing short of sinful that The Veterans Administration is horribly under funded.
Before it is over there will be two million vets who will have served in the Middle East, and nobody knows when its over so two million is a modest estimate. Over half will be mentally ill, and the sickest of them will not seek treatment. Even if the Bush administration had an exit plan, they refuse to recognise the sick vet. I do not know how Bush gets away with it, offering no consistent help to the Vietnam Vet, and repeating the exact same attitude towards the Afghanistan and Iraqi vet.
The American Vet is your most precious icon.
I am amazed Americans do not recognise the heart of the second amendment and storm the White House. How much more abuse can you accept?
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I would say that the consensus is (with the exception of Dov, who is Canadian) that we DO indeed "support our troops!"
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Being Canadian I cannot hurt, care, or contribute?? That is half the problem, your arrogant bridge burnings and becoming isolated, to the point that every forum I have ever seen has a thread about building a wall around America. It has become a moral dilemma and blocking yourselves off, will not fix your common lack of basic principles as manifested in the homeless vet. SHAME!
You do not take care of your vets. The numbers do not lie.
A country is judged by how it treats its prisoners and vets. You are zero for two.
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Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821–81) QUOTATION:
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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George Washington wrote that:
"A nation will be judged by the way it treats its veterans."
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