My editorial on homeless veterans printed today- already being voted down.

My neighbors suck. What can I say?

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2011/03/12/opinion/doc4d7c3a850054c436250144.txt

It is March 2011. Tonight, more than 138,000 veterans will go to sleep homeless. Thanks to the veteran support of our newly-elected House of Representatives, 11,000 homeless veterans will lose the glimmer of hope given to them by a “Grateful Nation.”

In September 2009, a new cooperative program known as HUD’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program (HUD-VASH) was initiated. This program combines HUD Housing Choice Voucher rental assistance for homeless veterans with case management and clinical services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

This successful program has removed 75,000 previously homeless veterans from the streets. This successful program is one of the items on the chopping block to ease our ever-growing debt caused by a decade at war. This is a prime example of how we support our veterans who have suffered the most.

I invite every Daily Light reader to explore their representative’s vote on veteran affairs. I think that by now it should be clear who supports veterans after they have served their nation well.

If you are a veteran or veteran family who is looking at possible homelessness, please contact The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans as soon as possible.

The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans is the go-to group to offer advice and assistance. You can research them online at any public library.

http://www.nchv.org/wheretogo.cfm

...or you can call NCHV here at1-800-838-4357 (1-800-VET-HELP)

Veterans, remember — we do support your service, and we have your back.

Stand strong.

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if they are 10X worse where I live, they are most certainly 100X worse where you live.

People have become so hate-filled when they talk about ANYONE getting anything--and that includes veterans.

Had a long talk this weekend with an old HS friend that lives in Detroit. We are on a bullet train to a very bad place.

Sigh.

The prevailing attitude among these teabagger scumsucking dickwads is that only the poor should serve in the military. Their disdain for anyone not just like themselves is beyond comprehension.

Reinstate the draft and the two wars will end in a week.

And thanks, w8lifting lady, for being the Energizer Bunny of posters/letter writers. You do good work!

I remember when rangel wanted to reintroduce the draft in 2006... yeah,halfway through the current war. he caught hell from both sides.
I wonder if we'd still be there,still be in the financial shape we are in, if we had just done it?
we'll never know. None in power have anything to lose.

nt.