As The GOP Sat On Their Hands, Obama Got 50% Of Homeless Vets Off The Streets

bipartisanreport.com ^ | november 24, 2015 | sarah

[lowbridge]

There's a lot of talk about what should be done to help our Veterans who have so selflessly given themselves to the service of the United States. Republicans will talk a good game and make-believe they are the ones who actually care about Vets, but in reality, they have voted against Veteran benefits more times than anyone would ever care to count. It wasn't until the Democrats passed the Post-9/11 GI Bill that we, as a nation, actually started to again look like we care about those who put everything on the line for our nation.

Then, in 2010, President Obama really made the push to help the homeless, including Veterans. Within 4 years, half of homeless Vets are off the streets.

The Obama program that really got the ball rolling was called Opening Doors, which is a program to help eradicate homelessness nationwide.

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And while homelessness, in general, has declined by 11% from 2007 to January 2015 and chronic homelessness by 31%, the most dramatic decrease has been among homeless veterans where "the number of unsheltered homeless veterans across the nation has plummeted by 50% in the past four years."

In fact, one state has actually eradicated homelessness among Vets altogether - Virginia. In Virginia they have a "housing first" initiative. Which is a "policy that holds that providing homeless people with safe, supportive shelter is a precondition for attending to the issues that caused them to slip through the cracks in the first place."

[JohnBrowdie]

what they don’t tell you is that, thanks to the VA, he got them off the streets by killing them.

[Excellence]

Then why have so many cites and states declared a homeless crisis?

[Mastador1]

what they don’t tell you is that, thanks to the VA, he got them off the streets by killing them.

Or thrown into mental institutions.

[lowbridge]

They must be lying. Everyone knows Bill Clinton ended homelessness forever.

[fieldmarshaldj]

This is horseshit. Bob Parks exposed that Virginia claim right off the bat.

http://www.black-and-right.com/2015/11/16/mcauliffes-no-homeless-vets-in-virginia-lie-and-the-cold-va-bureaucracy/

[Da Coyote]

Bull shi...er..bull Obama.

[Old Sarge]

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[Popman]

As much as I would like to believe these numbers, I’m sure they cooked the numbers to make Obama look good...

after all, just about every Stat or report out of DC are manipulated...

[mkjessup]

What they don’t tell you is that, thanks to the VA, Obama got them off the streets by killing them.

I wish for Obama the same level of care that the insidious VA system has provided for our honored veterans instead of Barky and his traitorous pals enjoying that gold plated plan that We The People are not permitted to participate in.

[exit82]

The other 50% died waiting for their VA appointment.

[mkjessup]

Well of course!

Those liars and thieves in Washington cook the books all the time, which is one reason why the Fed and that yammering Yellen are so adamantly opposed to the Fed being audited.

[Tupelo]

wow!! I knew the Republicans were worthless as tit on a boar hog, but I never knew just how much the Democrats care and have done for veterans.
WOW! That will make me a Democrat for life. /S

[truth_seeker]

“Or thrown into mental institutions.”

Two-thirds of homeless are addict/alcoholics and/or mentally ill.

IOW many of them belong in mental institutions, veteran or not, at least for awhile.

I state that as a veteran, with nearly 22 years of sobriety.

[PghBaldy]

You read my mind.

[BlueNgold]

Not true in my town...

[exDemMom]

The linked article is nothing but a liberal agitprop piece, which distorts facts and tells outright lies.

If Democrats had their way, veterans and active duty service members would have NO benefits.

I’ve seen some efforts like this over the social media, as well. There seems to be a strong push to create the illusion that liberals somehow care about military people. If you want to see how liberals really feel about the military—when they are not engaged in a public relations effort—just mention that you are military and that people thank you all the time for your service. A liberal will betray his/her real feelings about the military when they react in utter shock. In their world, people can and should be spitting on members of the military, just like in the 60s. That the majority of people do not is an utter surprise to anti-military leftists.

[DJ Taylor]

I still haven’t forgotten it was Paul Ryan and John Boehner’s 2013 budget that took from Military Retirement benefits and gave it to illegal alien programs. If this budget had been put together by Democrats, it wouldn’t have surprised me, but when it was done by Republicans, it showed me that Military Retirees have no representation in Congress.

[Vaduz]

And for his next act he cures cancer and..................

[FlingWingFlyer]

His “teen” gangs have been killing a lot of them lately also.