Natl Alliance claims >25% of USA Homeless are Military VETs!

The Homelessness Research Institute ^ | 31 Oct 2007 | National Alliance to End Homelessness

[muawiyah]

Wasn’t 50% after WWII. There were over 100 million people. About 15 million served, one way or the other.

[Broker]

November 11th is Veterans Day.. Now let me define a Vet. A former serviceman or servicewoman who wore the uniform and was honorable discharged.

The VA has a Booklet here to teach your children about Veterans Day. http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/docs/schoolkit.pdf

There is a lot of GOOD information on Veterans Day at the VA Web Site: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/

If you see a VET on the street, thank him, smile to her salute them as best you can. If you see a service member in uniform at a restaurant, buy their lunch, all of them. If a uniformed service member is in a line with you, give way let them up front. HIRE & PROMOTE VETs. Set these examples for your friends and families.

[cajungirl]

lies in this article, all lies.

[Broker]

After WW2 we can count VETs alive from about 1890 to 1950. In the 4 years of WW2, apx. 15,000,000 add that to this 56 year range. The number is big. Was in my family and yours too, unless you had some genetic problem or your family lived in Ireland.

[Chode]

first,i don't believe the numbers.

but i'd guess 25% might be possible(maybe a little high depending on what part of the country is looked at) for the number who served, and my point being if 25% served, it's statistically possible 25% Might be homeless.

like you said, survival is ingrained so i don't believe their numbers

[truth_seeker]

I have read that 67% of the homeless are alcoholic/addicts and/or mentally ill.

Many therefore by choice. Get a check for basics from some agency, spend it on booze/drugs and come up short for rent. Simple solution—go homeless—no rent to come up short for.

I am a vet, and quite resent the notion that vets from my era are bound to be alcoholic homeless losers.

[muawiyah]

It wasn't 50%. What you've probably got in mine is the percentage of the population that had an immediate relative (father, brother, son, uncle, cousin) who was a veteran ~ and that was probably near 50%.

Remember, somebody had to stay home and do all the work.

[rlmorel]

Good God. How frickking sad is that. Pathetic POS people who feel the need to have to impersonate a vet.

[Chode]

see #19...

[Broker]

Phoney VETs & Street VETs do it for several reasons:
1. It is the only way they can get attention; to be recognized and even listened to.
2. There is an abundance of military surplus clothing available. It is cheap or given away. Camo gear and jackets are very suitable for street survival. All they do is assume the name on the uniform.
3. They can be cast and formed into a cause celeb. A class of victims ready made for sympathy plays.

[Quackattack]

Interesting info from the Hoover Institution: http://www.hoover.org/research/factsonpolicy/facts/10802846.html

Q: In 2006, how did the poverty rate of veterans compare with that of the general population?

A: It was about half the rate of the general population.

[YHAOS]

And we are supposed to belive the Homelessness Research Institute because . . . ?

[Broker]

This posting is an ALERT to PROPAGANDA. A concentrated effort to smear and exploit VETS (near 11/11 11AM=Veterans Day). This will become a devisive political talking point and source of finance for the sponsor.

[aft_lizard]

I don’t know the actual percentages but it was quite high after WW2. You have to remember WW1,the Phillipines and the Spanish American war would all have still had veterans alive even after WW2.

[muawiyah]

WWII had the greatest number of vets. WWI had far fewer. The Spanish American War even fewer. At no time did they add up to 50% of the total population.

[aft_lizard]

A veteran isnt just a person who served during war either.

Never said its 50% BTW but the numbers were quite high during that period.

[YHAOS]

"This posting is an ALERT to PROPAGANDA. A concentrated effort to smear and exploit VETS (near 11/11 11AM=Veterans Day). This will become a devisive political talking point and source of finance for the sponsor."

That was my impression. I'm simply expressing my own skepticism in support of the PROPAGANDA ALERT.

[NavVet]

If I had a 65 Stang I would probably sleep in it too.

[Broker]

Best Book on Phoney Soldiers: “Stolen Valor” How the Vietnam generation was robbed of its HEROs and its history. Written by B G Burkett & Glenna Whitley, 1998 by Verity Press. Excellent documented expose on this wide spread problem.

[NavVet]

I just saw a clip on CNN interviewing two “homeless Vets” I have it on good authority that they probably didn’t ask either “vet” about the type of discharge he received for a good reason.