free housing for homeless vets? your kidding me!
There is a popular trope about homeless veterans and our need to provide them with housing before immigrants that makes me crazy. here's the reality: no other country provides for its veterans like the US does. It begins the day our vets are discharged, when they become eligible for five years of free healthcare, plus tuition assistance and living allowances for attending college or some trade schools.
If they want to buy a house, zero down. low interest, GI Bill home loans are commonly available.
For vets afflicted with PTSD, our VA offers free counseling and meds
For vets with substance abuse and chemical dependency issues, the VA offers rehab clinics and counseling.-- but the thing about chemical dependency is this: vets with this condition make a daily conscious decision to do so. Recovery is possible but the veteran/patient has to assume an active part in the process
Now about free housing for homeless vets...Sweet Cheeses, please understand that what you're advocating is socialism and you can't be a conservative and simultaneously advocate for socialism.
Yes, homeless vets are a stain on our society, but we have life preservers deployed to help them
When I took off my uniform and put on my Levis and a button down shirt to attend college, the years I had spent in the Marines gave me the confidence I needed to look for work, get a college education and the tools I needed to carry out my mission.
At no time did I ever I think I was owed free housing, meals or anything but a shot at life.
Its ridiculous to claim homeless vets need free housing.
mandatory disclosure: I am a 100 percent disabled veteran, a VA med system patient and I live independently. I Am also involved in local veterans affairs programs and actively support community organizations that have social workers who can assist veterans in using their benefits.
Please remember this: no other country provides for its veterans like the US does. How successful are we at it: look no further than the hundreds of towns in Southern California built around tracts for discharged GI Home loan vets. Up in NorCal,. towns like, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Redwood City all came to life around homes built purchased with VA financing: and we veteran residents went to college and created Silicon Valley. and we did it without free housing and by not allowing ourselves to become homeless.--Jim Forbes, a Baby Boomer veteran.