Comments on: Homeless Veterans – An Overview of the Problem http://oldtimer.wordpress.com Speaking out on world issues, mostly homelessness, veterans Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3284 Anonymous Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:43:01 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3284 Poverty PIMPS your absolutly right, what an ambarassment, has become, when words don't mean anything, is all about the paper work (not the vet) It just seems to me the staff needs to be replace with people who truly been homeless before, they have experience the strugle, unconfortbility, wanting to keep giving to the country by working (having a place they could call home) and I'm still waiting for the action behind the words. WORRIERS OF THE STRUGGLE NEED TO BE DOING THESE WORK (not people who THINK they know) homeless pfc JFC Poverty PIMPS your absolutly right, what an ambarassment, has become, when words don’t mean anything, is all about the paper work (not the vet) It just seems to me the staff needs to be replace with people who truly been homeless before, they have experience the strugle, unconfortbility, wanting to keep giving to the country by working (having a place they could call home) and I’m still waiting for the action behind the words. WORRIERS OF THE STRUGGLE NEED TO BE DOING THESE WORK (not people who THINK they know) homeless pfc JFC

]]> By: August http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3282 August Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:08:50 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3282 Kyle, a homeless vet on the streets/sick & nasty shelters for 4 1/2 years, labeled mentally ill & alcoholic by the VA, has a job & studio apartment after I worked with him; what the VA & Poverty Pimps could not do in 4 1/2 years, I did in less than 3 weeks. And there's NOTHING WRONG WITH HIM! No mental or Alcoholic issues AT ALL!. It's a miracle! All he needed was a home & job! What a DISGRACE the VA & poverty pimps did to this man! When a homeless veteran SAYS he needs a home & job THAT'S ALL HE NEEDS! Not TREATMENT CRAP & RELIGIOUS NONSENSE! Kyle, a homeless vet on the streets/sick & nasty shelters for 4 1/2 years, labeled mentally ill & alcoholic by the VA, has a job & studio apartment after I worked with him; what the VA & Poverty Pimps could not do in 4 1/2 years, I did in less than 3 weeks. And there’s NOTHING WRONG WITH HIM! No mental or Alcoholic issues AT ALL!. It’s a miracle! All he needed was a home & job! What a DISGRACE the VA & poverty pimps did to this man! When a homeless veteran SAYS he needs a home & job THAT’S ALL HE NEEDS! Not TREATMENT CRAP & RELIGIOUS NONSENSE!

]]> By: Ben http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3110 Ben Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:51:54 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3110 America has fought many wars and is currently fighting a war in an attempt to make the lives of everyday Americans free, one of relative peace and harmony. Many service members have sacrificed their lives and others continue to make the sacrifice in order to protect these freedoms that Americans hold dear. But what of those who didn’t pay the ultimate sacrifice, the ones who came home to a supposedly grateful nation, after experiencing things that many would not have the courage or the backbone to go through? They come home to a nation and are disregarded and brushed aside as if their service was of no consequence. So they fade; they fade away into the shadows of this nation forgotten and abandoned because America has no further use for them, has no need for heroes after the job is done. This is the America in which we live, a nation full of forgotten heroes living among us asking for our help. Are they asking us to put our lives on the line as they have done for us? No. All they are asking for is a little food or some of your pocket change so that they might be able to survive. They are asking for our help as we turn a blind eye towards them, hoping that if we don’t pay attention to them that they will go away. But they are not going away and with the current war, you can rest assured that there will be more. They are my heroes, they are your heroes and they are America’s heroes, they are the homeless Veteran. America has fought many wars and is currently fighting a war in an attempt to make the lives of everyday Americans free, one of relative peace and harmony. Many service members have sacrificed their lives and others continue to make the sacrifice in order to protect these freedoms that Americans hold dear. But what of those who didn’t pay the ultimate sacrifice, the ones who came home to a supposedly grateful nation, after experiencing things that many would not have the courage or the backbone to go through? They come home to a nation and are disregarded and brushed aside as if their service was of no consequence.
So they fade; they fade away into the shadows of this nation forgotten and abandoned because America has no further use for them, has no need for heroes after the job is done. This is the America in which we live, a nation full of forgotten heroes living among us asking for our help. Are they asking us to put our lives on the line as they have done for us? No. All they are asking for is a little food or some of your pocket change so that they might be able to survive. They are asking for our help as we turn a blind eye towards them, hoping that if we don’t pay attention to them that they will go away. But they are not going away and with the current war, you can rest assured that there will be more. They are my heroes, they are your heroes and they are America’s heroes, they are the homeless Veteran.

]]> By: August http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3083 August Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:36:19 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3083 Obama said his policy, once he took the office of president, would be ZERO homeless veterans; well homeless veterans are EXPLODING on the streets. Where are the REAL housing, the REAL job training, and where are the REAL jobs? Homeless veterans want to get on with their lives, not linger in programs after programs after more programs. Obama said his policy, once he took the office of president, would be ZERO homeless veterans; well homeless veterans are EXPLODING on the streets. Where are the REAL housing, the REAL job training, and where are the REAL jobs? Homeless veterans want to get on with their lives, not linger in programs after programs after more programs.

]]> By: Dan http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3063 Dan Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:37:09 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-3063 I just looked up the numbers in my area: 801 homelss veterans. Expendatures to help them 12.8 million dillars this year. What for? $600,000.00 for food banks (for everyone, not just vets) 1.2 million dillars to build a 14 bed shelter, and 11 Million dollars to fund a report on how the 1.2 million dollar, 14 bed, shelter was going to solve the problem???? Sound right to you??? PS. I would love to see the salary info on the people running that scam. Our vets need real care, not photo ops for politicians. As for the reasons for higher Vet homelessness... Simple .. the "Honor First" mindset of our vets conflics with the "Profits First" reality of capitalism. Most veterans become homeless due to their refusal to violate their honor to suit their employers bottom line. This often leads to unemployment. Unemployment leads to homelessness. Homelessness leads to hopelessness. Hopelessness leads to Chemical Dependancy. Remember, they didn't come back broken. It was life here that broke them. I just looked up the numbers in my area:
801 homelss veterans. Expendatures to help them 12.8 million dillars this year. What for? $600,000.00 for food banks (for everyone, not just vets) 1.2 million dillars to build a 14 bed shelter, and 11 Million dollars to fund a report on how the 1.2 million dollar, 14 bed, shelter was going to solve the problem???? Sound right to you??? PS. I would love to see the salary info on the people running that scam. Our vets need real care, not photo ops for politicians. As for the reasons for higher Vet homelessness… Simple .. the “Honor First” mindset of our vets conflics with the “Profits First” reality of capitalism. Most veterans become homeless due to their refusal to violate their honor to suit their employers bottom line. This often leads to unemployment. Unemployment leads to homelessness. Homelessness leads to hopelessness. Hopelessness leads to Chemical Dependancy. Remember, they didn’t come back broken. It was life here that broke them.

]]> By: Maurita Massey http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2979 Maurita Massey Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:28:38 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2979 My father is veteran of the Korean War, and we live in Roanoke, VA. The Salem, VA is the regional office for the State of VA. There are more homeless vets in this small city than in a lot of bigger cities surrounding us. I am looking into private funding to renovate 1 of many old houses here and try to house some of them. They deserve proper care, or better care than what they receive in the system. Proper food (a cook), proper health care (a full-time nurse), and a clean enviroment, service to assist their living habits daily. Just want to give back what my Dad did for this country. He is 77, retired and enjoying his life; all vets should do the same. My father is veteran of the Korean War, and we live in Roanoke, VA. The Salem, VA is the regional office for the State of VA. There are more homeless vets in this small city than in a lot of bigger cities surrounding us. I am looking into private funding to renovate 1 of many old houses here and try to house some of them. They deserve proper care, or better care than what they receive in the system. Proper food (a cook), proper health care (a full-time nurse), and a clean enviroment, service to assist their living habits daily. Just want to give back what my Dad did for this country. He is 77, retired and enjoying his life; all vets should do the same.

]]> By: Dodie Bishoff http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2970 Dodie Bishoff Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:49:45 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2970 I am so thankful for a website such as your own.........I am at the same time very angry at the so called Christians in our present day society.. (I am one of them).I am so tired of hearing this prosperity message while there are homeless eeking out a meager existence under bridges...They are tortured souls, yet humiliated by their own society even further.Perhaps some of our leading evangelists could do away with $650.00 shoes, and lear jets and put their money where their mouths are...Jesus said "feed the hungry,clothe the naked." The answer to homelessness is the church." It is our responsibility to do these things. Can you only imagine if we stopped building these enormous churches which cost millions upon millions to build and operate (cystal Cathedral is a good example), and started to put that money into the poor and homeless of this world, what huge differences we could make...God help us all who run around with the "What would Jesus do?" bumper stickers and let a world go hungry and naked.Explain this prosperity message to me a little more one of you big shot pastors wit a jet and 7 or 800,000 dollar homes......The men who made that a reality for you are homeless....Those veterans who fought for your freedom.....The church alone has the ability to stop homelessness and hunger.........We should all pray and seek forgiveness... I am so thankful for a website such as your own………I am at the same time very angry at the so called Christians in our present day society.. (I am one of them).I am so tired of hearing this prosperity message while there are homeless eeking out a meager existence under bridges…They are tortured souls, yet humiliated by their own society even further.Perhaps some of our leading evangelists could do away with $650.00 shoes, and lear jets and put their money where their mouths are…Jesus said “feed the hungry,clothe the naked.” The answer to homelessness is the church.” It is our responsibility to do these things. Can you only imagine if we stopped building these enormous churches which cost millions upon millions to build and operate (cystal Cathedral is a good example), and started to put that money into the poor and homeless of this world, what huge differences we could make…God help us all who run around with the “What would Jesus do?” bumper stickers and let a world go hungry and naked.Explain this prosperity message to me a little more one of you big shot pastors wit a jet and 7 or 800,000 dollar homes……The men who made that a reality for you are homeless….Those veterans who fought for your freedom…..The church alone has the ability to stop homelessness and hunger………We should all pray and seek forgiveness…

]]> By: George http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2880 George Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:15:25 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2880 August, you are exactly right. These prison-hate-programs are deliberately designed to inflict the maximum amount of disrespect on this current generation of veterans precisely because the AMERICAN PEOPLE of today wish it to be so! August, you are exactly right. These prison-hate-programs are deliberately designed to inflict the maximum amount of disrespect on this current generation of veterans precisely because the AMERICAN PEOPLE of today wish it to be so!

]]> By: August http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2822 August Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:48:56 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2822 I checked out Al's transitional housing program. If he went to a baseball game and had a beer with friends he would be kicked out to the street immediately. It's a prison-type program. Where is the respect and dignity in that? I checked out Al’s transitional housing program. If he went to a baseball game and had a beer with friends he would be kicked out to the street immediately. It’s a prison-type program. Where is the respect and dignity in that?

]]> By: Oldtimer http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2639 Oldtimer Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:56:48 +0000 http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/homeless-veterans-an-overview-of-the-problem/#comment-2639 Uzie, Try these links: <a href="http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/news-flash-army-reports-on-delayed-ptsd/" rel="nofollow">News Flash! Army Reports on Delayed PTSD</a> This link will give you 34<a href="http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/category/ptsd/" rel="nofollow"> articles which mentions PTSD as a categ</a>ory. This link is a <a href="http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/?s=PTSD" rel="nofollow">search for PTSD in my blog</a> http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/?s=PTSD It will duplicate the previous one but also pick up a few that I did not list in the category file. Oldtimer Uzie,

Try these links:
News Flash! Army Reports on Delayed PTSD

This link will give you 34 articles which mentions PTSD as a category.

This link is a search for PTSD in my blog
http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/?s=PTSD

It will duplicate the previous one but also
pick up a few that I did not list in the category file.

Oldtimer

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