$200 Billion to Ukraine, $0 to homeless veterans.
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Anyone literate enough to write that sign can easily get a job. We have a labor shortage.
All the people who do this are liars & crackheads, anyway. It's just a grift.
We spend hundreds of billions per year on the VA. Veterans in this country get insane benefits, it's basically a socialist paradise for them.
I don't agree with you on a lot but you are not wrong here. I worked with homeless veterans as a vet a couple years back and they fell into three categories.
The dudes who would go out with signs or cups did not want to work period. Any change given would go straight to cigarettes, alcohol or coffee. They had no intention of finding a job or fixing any of their issues.
The guys who either already had a job or were just pushed out by batshit s/o's would continue or find work and get out of the shelter extremely quick. They would never be caught dead with a sign.
The last group were guys who were living innawoods and only came back because of medical issues. They usually would get fixed up, make some money to get more supplies and then go back to the woods. They also would never beg or use a sign.
A lot of vets are mentally damaged from the military also. Its one of the reasons I'm against joining.
All of that sounds right.
How could you possibly know that?
I only hear complaints about the VA.
The VA is the closest thing the US has to a socialized medicine system and as you can imagine it's a death trap. Not to mention the overseers do a very good job of making sure injuries sustained while indentured are not covered.
life experience
Welcome to socialism. People know that complaints = more money. It's incentivized in a socialist western system to scream your little lungs out about how terrible things are to get more funding for your own budget.
So you don't, because "life experience" in no way qualifies you to make judgments about all people like that. You just have an interest in pretending that the American system is fair to everyone.
Any negative comment about any European country is quickly silenced, because they know they either have to silence the people complaining or fix it. And they're not planning on fixing it.
Polls literally do this all the time, by using samples to get a bigger picture.
Not really. I don't care. I'm against the welfare state. I think America's welfare state sucks & should be torn down. I'd be 100% okay with "veterans" living on the streets for real if the lazy fucks won't get jobs.
But that's not the reality. the reality is that US taxpayers pay many hundreds of billions of dollars every year to make people like this not real. These are just grifters. If this guy wasn't lying, he would have endless amounts of help from US taxpayer funded socialist bullshit.
The difference is in Europe the socialists already won. In America we're still fighting over it. So this is how it works here. Also Republicans have been cucks on shit like saying no to "veterans", creating perverse incentives.
We threw insane amounts of money at veterans over "burn pits" even though it was total bullshit.